Janet Roitman

Janet Roitman is an American anthropologist known for her work in Central Africa focusing on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, and Chad. Her analysis of the unregulated commerce that transpires on those borders, "Fiscal Disobedience", which inquires into emergent forms of economic regulation in the region of the Chad Basin, was praised by Arjun Appadurai as "an unusually innovative, indeed subversive anthropology of economy and state." [ [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7890.html Princeton University Press] ] More generally, her research covers topics of political economy, the anthropology of value, and emergent forms of the political.

Roitman holds a joint position as an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department and in the Graduate Program for International Affairs at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is a research fellow with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), a member of the Institut Marcel-Mauss (CNRS-EHESS) in Paris, and an instructor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques de Paris. Roitman is also a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal "Public Culture". The recipient of many fellowships and grants, she is currently devising a collaborative project on “The Archeology of Violence in Central Africa.”

Roitman received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.

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elect publications

*"The Right to Tax: Economic Citizenship in the Chad Basin," in "Citizenship Studies", 2007.
*"The Ethics of Illegality in the Chad Basin," in Comaroff and Comaroff, eds., "Law and Disorder in the Postcolony". Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
*"Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa". New York, NY: Princeton University Press, 2005.
*"Modes of Governing: the Garrison-Entrepôt," in Collier and Ong, eds., "Global Assemblages: Technology, Governmentality, Ethics". Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.

External links

* [http://www.newschool.edu/NSSR/faculty.aspx?id=10390&DeptFilter=NSSR+Anthropology New School Faculty Profile]