Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Dr Benjamin Bowles
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology Lecturer in Anthropology
- Department
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- 571
- Email address
- bb37@soas.ac.uk
- Support hours
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Mondays 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Tuesdays 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Research interests
Major research projects:
- Research Fellow - SOAS - 2019/2020: Trajectories of Infrastructure Finance
- Research Fellow - LSE - 2018: Flexible and Reflexive Standards: Constructing Resilient Infrastructure in Uncertainty
- Research Assistant - LSE - 2015-2017: Global Maritime Investment and Infrastructure. Financing Ports and Projects. Belt and Road Initiative.
- PhD - Brunel University - 2012-2015: Water Ways: Becoming an Itinerant Boat-Dweller on the Canals and Rivers of South East England
Expertise in:
- The effects of infrastructure financing regimes on sustainability
- The governance of infrastructure projects and their assurance for resilience and sustainability
- Alternative lifestyles and sustainable forms of dwelling
- Narrowboat travelling communities (Boaters)
- Global infrastructure financing elites
- Political and Economic Anthropology
- The Anthropology of travelling populations within the state
- The Anthropology of Britain
