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Research Interests
The politics and laws of justice, global markets, labour governance, (maritime) infrastructures, the anthropology of international organizations, moral anthropology, ethnographic theory
Research Areas
Europe, Central America, Turkey, Central Asia
Profile
Luisa Piart is a senior research fellow in the Department of Law & Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her scientific interests are in the fields of economic and legal anthropology. Her current research project focuses on seafarers of the global shipping industry, the ILO Maritime Labour Convention (2006) and its implementation regime. It questions the normative orders foregrounding specific political claims, forms of appropriation and domination at sea.
Before relocating to Halle, she received grants from and held positions in research institutions in Turkey, Uzbekistan, and across Europe. After graduating with degrees in History and Heography from Paris and in Migration Studies from Poitiers, she earned a binational PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Vienna and the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS Paris).
Why Law & Anthropology?
I am interested in the shifting relations between market regulation, state law, and labour. Where do international labour standards fit into this equation? I do believe social anthropology and its powerful ethnographic mode of knowledge production are best equipped to enquire into these issues. More specifically, I want to contribute to debates concerning the (de-)regulation of the economy and the juridification of labour relations through a better understanding of the politics and laws of justice.