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Jose-Maria Munoz serves as Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science, affiliated with the Centre of African Studies and Global Development Academy. His work centers on West and Central Africa, particularly Cameroon and Chad, examining economic governance through anthropological lenses.
Education:
- Licenciatura en Derecho, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain
- Licenciatura en Antropología Social, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- MSc Social Anthropology, University College London
- PhD Cultural Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA
Munoz integrates Economic and Legal Anthropology to dissect taxation systems, infrastructure development, and borderland dynamics in Africa. His ERC-funded AFRIGOS project revealed how transport corridors generate emergent governance patterns, challenging formal-informal economy dichotomies. Current work explores border festivals as sites of practical governance and VAT compliance dilemmas among Cameroonian businesses.
Recent publications analyze N'Djamena's logistics tensions and Cameroonian railway history, demonstrating how infrastructure investments reshape social relations. His monograph Doing Business in Cameroon deconstructs economic governance through cattle trade and public contracting case studies.
He supervises PhD candidates including Konstantin Biehl (Kenyan food safety) and Francesco Longo (West African music scenes), though notes no openings for 2025-26. Major projects include AFRIGOS (2016-2022) on African transport corridors and Border Festivals (2019-2022) examining partitioned communities.
Munoz directs guidance hours for students and actively contributes to the Centre of African Studies, bridging anthropological theory with development practice through fieldwork across Cameroon's borderlands.
