The workshop on Sociality of Tax: Ethnographies of Fiscal Relations, to be held at the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research on 6th May, 2025, aims to bring together diverse scholars using ethnographic methods and data to research the sociality of tax - systems, logics, cultures and relations related to tax. Building on the innovative and ongoing research within the burgeoning field, Anthropology and Tax, on how taxes shape our world - our social relationships and value regimes, how we exclude and include, the categories we think and act with, and the way we share with each other - the event will bring a Scandinavian perspective to comparative discussions about fiscal systems round the globe.
The organizers Miranda Sheild Johansson (UCL, UK), Charles Dolph (UCL, UK), Gustav Peebles (SU, Sweden) invite scholars to submit an abstract of work in progress or recently completed research which explores taxes in non-normative ways, and creatively mobilizes qualitative data. They are particularly keen to include research undertaken in Scandinavia, or research by Scandinavian-based researchers.
The attendees will take part in a closed workshop at Stockholm University in the morning, followed by a workshop lunch. Everyone is then invited to stay for a public event in the afternoon. The public event will feature a talk by Dr Lotta Björklund Larsen and presentations on the research from the Sociality of Tax project (UCL).
Send your abstract and CV by Mon the 17th of March to Miranda Sheild Johansson at m.johansson@ucl.ac.uk
There is funding available for accommodation and train travel (within Sweden) for attendees.
For further information about the field Anthropology and Tax and the project see: