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Hannah Appel is an Associate Professor and Associate Director at the Institute on Inequality + Democracy at UCLA. Her work bridges economic anthropology and critical studies of capitalism, focusing on finance, debt, and anti-capitalist movements.
- University of California, Los Angeles (Anthropology Department)
- Institute on Inequality + Democracy
Research interests include:
- Economic anthropology
- Transnational capitalism and finance
- Debt and debtors’ unions
- Africa in global capitalism
- Economic imagination
- Anti-capitalist and abolitionist social movements
Appel’s publications span ethnographic studies of oil extraction in Equatorial Guinea and experimental research on financial systems, including co-founding the Debt Collective to organize debtors’ unions. Her work theorizes capitalism through fieldwork-based lenses, emphasizing racialized and infrastructural dimensions.
Key projects include:
- The Licit Life of Capitalism (2019) – analyzing oil corporations in Equatorial Guinea
- Pan African Capital – studying African-owned financial institutions
- Debt Collective – organizing for $2B+ in debt abolition
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