I am a PhD candidate at Scuola Normale Superiore and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies doing research on Corporate Social Responsibility and the interaction between rural communities and corporations within the context of development processes. By taking an ethnographic approach, I aim at making observations of the more routine and informal ways of institutional bricolage that are often hidden and not organised through major open movements, but instead take form of slow encroaching change. With this focus I set the goal of developing theoretical understanding of the complex political relations between companies and local communities, how these relations are constructed and how different marginalised groups react differently to corporate actions.

Research interests: power, local institutions, corporate social responsibility, inequality and poverty reduction, Global South