I am currently in the process of working on my book project which builds on the ethnographic explorations of social finance from my PhD research. In this, I look at the hierarchies of labour performed by intermediaries throughout the social finance chain and how this labour produces financial value at each stage. I follow financial investments from Geneva's social finance investors to microfinance institutions in India and ultimately to the women borrowers who take credit for economic subsistence. I situate finance in a continuum of Global North-South locations, eliciting gendered and racialised hierarchies which are co-produced with finance.

I have recently begun research on the booming fintech credit sector in the Global South, ethnographically focusing on India and bridging themes of gender, development-finance and the state. I look at the reconfiguring roles and articulations of the state in enabling fintechs for credit to women borrowers, as well as local economies as these become interwoven with digital credit. 

I am also exploring the theme of racial capitalism and imperial residues of/in finance today. This builds upon two graduate-level courses which I am teaching at the Geneva Graduate Institute (Politics of Capitalism) and the University of Bern (Racial Capitalism). I explore historically-situated ways of conducting ethnography, combining historiographical and anthropological methods that locate present economic processes in a longue-durée, embedded in deeper understandings of the relations between empires, finance and constructions of risk. I wrote a piece for Globalizations exploring some of these themes in the context of financial inclusion in India, where I situate contemporary microfinance in historically-enduring colonial processes of racialising risk, privatising land and common resources and producing notions of financial (ir)rationality.