Anja Decker, M.A.

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Anja Decker is a cultural anthropologist trained at Humboldt-University Berlin and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich. She has been a lecturer at the University Basel and the University of Regensburg as well as a visiting fellow at Charles University and University of West Bohemia. Her research interest lies in diverse economies, political participation and social inequality in the Global East. Using ethnographic research designs, she investigates the interrelation of everyday and transformative agency, the social organization of informality and the translocal embeddedness of both economic alternatives and democratic innovations. With her work, she seeks to contribute to the deperipherialisation of knowledge generated in and on postsocialist societies and rural communities. She is currently working on a monography that investigates the lived experience of precarity and agency in rural peripheries through the ethnography of alternative food economies in a case region of the Czech Republic. As a member of the Polička collective she explores paths towards building alliences between engaged and quiet forms of community economies.