Chakad Ojani

Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS.
Researcher, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University

Chakad Ojani received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester in 2021.
He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Jagiellonian University (2021–2022) and Uppsala Uni-
versity (2022–2024). His thesis drew on twelve months of ethnographic research on fog-capture,
informal urbanization, and human-environment relations in Lima and other parts of coastal Peru. This
work received the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Radcliffe-Brown Sutasoma Award and its findings
have been published in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory,
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthro-
pology.

Ojani’s research interests lie at the intersection of the anthropology of infrastructure, environmental
anthropology, and science and technology studies. As a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, he will be working on
the project “Infrastructuring the Extra-terrestrial, Un-earthing Anthropology.” Taking Sweden as its ethno-
graphic focus, this study investigates the making and reshaping of (extra)planetary ecologies through various
forms of infrastructural mediation. Specifically, Ojani will examine the discursive, material, and speculative
practices whereby environments – both on and off Earth – are reimagined and modified amidst contemporary
efforts to infrastructuring Earth’s orbital environment and beyond. Against this empirical backdrop, the project
seeks to elucidate the possibilities and limitations of a geocentric politics of the environment and climate change.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2024-25.