New piece out in ESA’s The European Sociologist: “Productive Failure: A Theory of the Projectocracy.” On how “success” can be an administrative artifact, not a lived reality.

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P074: Projectocracy and the Projectariat: Ethnographies of Project-Based Futures This panel invites critical ethnographic explorations of how "the project" has emerged as a dominant funding, organizational and ideological form that

Projectocracy and the Projectariat: Ethnographies of Project-Based Futures.
Panel P074 at conference EASA2026 Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World.

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This panel invites critical ethnographic explorations of how "the project" has emerged as a dominant funding, organizational and ideological form that shapes development interventions, knowledge production in NGOs and academia and the imagination and possibility of the future itself.

Is the future just a series of grant cycles?

Join me & Florin Poenaru at #EASA2026 for Panel P074: "Projectocracy and the Projectariat."

We are unpacking the machinery of project-based governance and the precarious labor that sustains it

P074: Projectocracy and the Projectariat: Ethnographies of Project-Based Futures This panel invites critical ethnographic explorations of how "the project" has emerged as a dominant funding, organizational and ideological form that

"The project" isn't just funding; it's a dominant ideological form.

Join us at #EASA2026 for Projectocracy & the Projectariat.

We invite critical explorations of how this form shapes development, NGO knowledge production, and the imagination of the future itself.

nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...