In this episode on work, the mobile workforce and global relations, Miranda talks to Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol and Dr Johanna Mugler.

Johanna is a social anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the University of Fribourg. She is also an unusual anthropologist in that she “studies up,” spending time in large institutions with people who do not have time and do not necessarily want to share — a tricky proposition for an anthropologist.

This work is especially important because it is easy to forget that in places of politics and bureaucracy there is also culture, a way of doing things. Doing anthropology with the powerful is one of the key tasks in the discipline. In this episode, Miranda talks to Johanna about her research with tax norm negotiators at the OECD — who holds power in these negotiations and why it matters, and whether supranatio ...