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Ruben Andersson is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford’s Department of International Development, where he researches migration, borders, security, and conflict. His work spans the West African Sahel, southern Europe, and global security dynamics.
- Current Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2023-26) for 'Apocalypse soon: Security, subversion and the struggle for a human future'
- Author of three major monographs: Wreckonomics (2023), No Go World (2019), and Illegality, Inc. (2014)
- Co-edits special issues on remoteness and risk in global governance
His research focuses on the unintended consequences of security interventions, including:
- How fear maps global danger zones
- Counterproductive border control industries
- Postcolonial risk economies in Mali and Afghanistan
- Security-fueled displacement cycles
- Profits from migration control systems
- Anthropology of the bioeconomy
Recent publications (2016-2024) analyze:
- Security as subversion
- Border wall paradoxes
- Bioeconomic border technologies
- Digital danger mapping
- Interventionist 'bunker politics'
- Time as a control mechanism
Scientific recognition:
- Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2023)
- Co-published in The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Political Geography, and Security Dialogue
Doctoral supervision includes:
- Chloe Marshall-Denton
- Maggie Neil
His fieldwork in Mali, Senegal, and the Mediterranean has produced critical insights about:
- Security industry feedback loops
- Risk aversion in academic/interventionist practices
- Colonial cartographic legacies in modern geopolitics
- Profit motives behind 'failed' interventions
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