Reparations and global development
REPAIR is a research project funded by the European Union (2024-2029) and hosted at the Anthropology Department of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). We study new calls for reparations that address major global development challenges. We focus in particular on reparations for infectious disease outbreaks, climate change, and toxic environments. We also post latest reparations news on X @reparationsres [Find out more]
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Research Team
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Dr Felix Stein
Principal Investigator (PI)
Felix works as economic anthropologist for the Department of Anthropology at the UvA, and the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. He has a special interest in development finance and global health governance. [Find out more]
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Janus Oomen
Finance Manager
Janus works as the Programme Manager for Anthropology at the UvA. He supports researchers with grant applications, management and monitoring. He has a background in development economics and likes to make life and work easier for his researchers. [Find out more]
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Hanna Horváth
Project Assistant
Hanna works as a research and administrative assistant within the Anthropology Department at the UvA. Her background is interdisciplinary; she has trained as a medical anthropologist. She supports projects with research-related and organizational tasks.
Advisory board
Prof. James Carrier - James G. Carrier has taught anthropology and sociology, and carried out research, in Papua New Guinea, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as studying environmental conservation in Jamaica. His publications include Gifts and Commodities (Routledge 1995), Meanings of the Market (ed., Berg 1997) and Virtualism, Governance and Practice (co-ed. with West, Berghahn 2009).
Prof. Barbara Rose Johnston - Senior Fellow at the Center for Political Ecology, Santa Cruz and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University, United States
Prof. Desmond McNeill - Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), Norway
Prof. Jhon Picard Byron - Professor of Anthropology, State University of Haiti, Haiti
Prof. John Torpey - Presidential Professor of History and Sociology, Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY), United States
Additional support
REPAIR is part of the “Moving Matters” research programme at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)