Chakad Ojani

Chakad Ojani holds a Postdoctoral position at Uppsala University's Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology. His research focuses on infrastructures and environments, examining socio-political dynamics enabled/facilitated by infrastructure systems and speculative practices in environmental projects. Current work includes a monograph on fog capture in Peru and studies on Sweden's space infrastructure expansion.

Research Themes

• Urban and environmental politics (fog capture systems in Lima)
• Outer space infrastructures and planetary futures
• Material engagements with atmospheric phenomena
• Speculative realism and ethnographic methodologies

Recent Article Trends

• 2024-2023: Focused on fog capture technologies' socio-political implications, urbanization conflicts, and land rights
• 2022-2020: Explored speculative methodologies, infrastructure failures, and space policy

His research projects blend anthropological fieldwork with critical infrastructure studies, addressing how infrastructural projects reshape environments and human-environment relationships.