Biography

Dr. Johanna Mugler is a social anthropologist based at the University of Fribourg. Her work explores global justice negotiations and accountability attributions: from conflicts over the taxation of multinational corporations and tensions around the division and valorization of labor to the rise of quantification of abstract responsibilities into measurable and numerical data. As a anthropologist, she is in particular interested in the social relations and institutional infrastructures that determine where and how people can ask for justice or demand accountability, and with what effects and consequences for global economic justice. She has particular expertise in policymaking and norm creation processes, epistemic communities, large organizations, taxation and the digital economy. She has published on topics ranging from audit cultures and numerical reflexivity to anthropological rule of law analysis, regulatory capture, taxation as a form of sharing, and the meaning and motivations of work in late capitalism.