Massimiliano Mollona

Dr Massimiliano Mollona

Small Group Project 2021-22

Economic Justice. A transdisciplinary approach to UBI policies in Brazil

As demands for permanent UBI become more mainstream in the wake of cash transfer programmes in response to COVID 19, the proposed pilot project will be the first anthropological study of an already established UBI project made in collaboration with the economists who set it up and based on engagement with the local community, in order to assess cultural responses to the prospect of a post-work future. It will establish a dialogue between quantitative data – statistical descriptive analyses of municipal household records and surveys – and ethnography, using the latter to feed back into and adjust the former, based on regular meetings with Brazilian economist Professor Fabio Waltenberg and additional feedback from advisors Professors Kathi Weeks, Guy Standing and Andrea Fumagalli.

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Areas of interest

Political Anthropology Economic Anthropology Anthropology of Art Work Class Capitalism Political Economy Art

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FG7

Biography

Massimiliano Mollona teaches political and economic anthropology and anthropology of art. His research interests particularly focus on the anthropology of work, class and contemporary capitalism, which he explores through an intersectional and de-colonial framework, and by looking at the entanglement of art and political economy. His fieldworks are structured as militant research interventions that combine pedagogy, art and activism and reflect on the power relations implicit in every encounter with "the other".

Mollona co-founded the Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI) with nodes in Madrid, Milan, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Venice, and London, and the Laboratory of Urban Common (LUC) in Athens two para-institutions that produce research, knowledge, and artistic and political interventions to implement post-capitalist forms of life.

Biographical details correct as of 24.04.26