A place for anthropologists of taxation to
connect with each other and publicize our
current research, events, and publications
Be sure to check out our Resources page for new
publications and resources submitted by
our network of researchers!
Announcement from Robin Smith • April 18, 2024
Announcement from Robin Smith and Charles Dolph • April 18, 2024
Tax network members Robin Smith and Charles Dolph co-convened a hybrid workshop of anthropologists researching taxation to share one another's work-in-progress, in part as a run-up to EASA 2024 in Barcelona.
The aims of the event were to widen our anthropology of tax network, help us think through current weighty issues in our respective writing projects, and come up with new ideas.
Announcement from Miranda Sheild Johansson • March 6, 2024
Tax network member Miranda Sheild Johansson has published an article on The Conversation entitled, 'Taxes aren't just about the money -- they shape how we think about each other.
The Conversation is a unique collaboration between academics and journalists that in a decade has become the world’s leading publisher of research-based news and analysis.
You can read the full article by following this link:
Announcement from Nicolette Makovicky • March 6, 2024
In August 2022 Nicolette Makovicky received a Global Initiatives Grant to build capacity in anthropology through, "Tax, Society, and People – Using anthropology to teach young people about tax."
The aim of the GIG-funded Tax, Society and People project has been to draw on current anthropological research to challenge the way young people are being taught about tax. The project’s vision is ambitious yet profound: to develop educational materials for young teens that transcend traditional economic or legal frameworks, shedding light on the societal and cultural implications of taxes.
You can read the full description by following this link:
Announcement from Korinna Schönhärl • February 22, 2024
New member Korinna Schönhärl is announcing an international conference 29 Febraury - 1 March 2024 at Paderborn University, Germany. Click on the announcement text or the image on the left to see the full program.
Discussions about paying taxes (honestly) always concern the core of social order: Who must contribute how much to the community? Which groups are relieved? How much equality and redistribution is necessary or possible? What constitutes a 'just' tax system, how can the state legitimize its tax demands - and what does a 'just' society look like accordingly?
The aim of the conference is to bring firstly different religions (Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Protestant, and Catholic Christianity) into conversation about the topic of taxation and in this way to make an important contribution to the history of ideas on taxation. Secondly, we want to discuss the question from an interdisciplinary perspective on theological tax disputes of the past, including contributions from the fields of theology, law, history, and political studies.
Announcement from Miranda Sheild Johansson • November 30, 2023
Announcement from Nicolette Makovicky & Robin Smith • September 24, 2023
Nicolette Makovicky and Robin Smith are pleased to announce the publication of their co-edited volume with Berghahn, Beyond the Social Contract: An Anthropology of Tax.
Thank you to Hanna Stalenhoef for her incredible original artwork that graces our volume's cover.
Please visit the News page to read about its contents, admire the cover, and find a link to it! It's fully open access!
Announcement from Lotta Björklund Larsen • July 24, 2023
Announcement from Gauri Natarajan • July 24, 2023
Announcement from Lotta Björklund Larsen • February 11, 2023
Announcement from Hannah Piehl • October 30, 2022
Just in time for Halloween, a blog post on a spooky German tax law! Hannah wrote this piece as part of a social media assignment for Andreas Streinzer's course “Fiscal Governance: Knowing, Calculating, and Regulating Flows of Value” in the MA Science and Technology Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
Visit our Blog page or follow links. Her reference list is included as a downloadable PDF at the bottom of the post. Enjoy!
Announcement from Miranda Sheild Johansson • October 12, 2022
Gwen Burnyeat and Miranda Sheild Johansson have recently published a journal special issue in Critique of Anthropology, 'An Anthropology of the Social Contract: Interrogating Contractarian Thinking in State-Society Relations' (2022, 43:3) with which the anthropology of tax community will find much to engage!
To introduce it, Miranda has written a piece 'Digging Deeper into the Social Contract' on our Blog page inviting readers to learn more and within which there are links to all the contributions. Enjoy the read!
Announcement from Dora-Olivia Vicol and Nicolette Makovicky • September 2, 2022
Announcement from Miranda Sheild Johansson • June 23, 2022
Miranda Sheild Johansson's project, The Sociality of Tax: A Multiperspective Study of Fiscal Relations, is hiring TWO Research Fellows on a multi-year contract.
Please click on the links to read about the positions at University College London!
Applications are due on the 26th of June, so please hurry and apply!
Announcement from Andreas Streinzer • April 27, 2022
Andreas Streinzer and his students have translated concepts from economic anthropology, the social studies of finance, and tax law into social media memes as a class project.
Please visit our Blog page to read their creations and enjoy some links to the syllabus in case you want to use this in your own course!
Announcement from Robin Smith • February 24, 2022
Announcement from Miranda Sheild Johansson • January 20, 2022
Announcement from Lotta Björklund Larsen • November 26, 2021
Lotta Björklund Larsen and Benedicte Brøgger have published an article entitled Tax compliance dancing: The importance of time and space in taxing multinational corporations in the Journal of Legal Anthropology.
Please visit our News page to read the abstract and find the link to this excellent article on tax!
Announcement from Robin Smith • November 14, 2021
Hey everyone! Our network of tax scholars is growing! We just surpassed 20 members!
Check out our Researchers page to read about the work of Ida Hughes Tidlund, Yvette Lind, Marija Norkunaite, Gayatri Sahgal, and Andreas Streinzer, whose profiles have all been added to our network in the last couple of months.
Looking forward to getting to know more about the diverse tax research going on out there! If you have news to share please contact me, and if you have ideas for new collaboration, reach out to those in our network!
Happy researching! May it not be taxing...
Group announcement • September 25, 2021
A handful of members of our network have organized and will participate in a virtual roundtable at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting. They will be joined by even more tax scholars and interested economic anthropologists to discuss the question, 'what is the anthropology of tax?'
Visit our News page to read the description of the roundtable and find links to how to attend!
Announcement from Miranda Sheild Johansson • September 13, 2021
Announcement from Lotta Björklund Larsen & Karen Boll • September 8, 2021
Announcement from Karen Boll • August 3, 2021
Announcement from Lotta Björklund Larsen • June 10, 2021
Announcement from Matti Eräsaari & Anna-Riikka Kauppinen • April 21, 2021
Announcement from Robin Smith • February 20, 2021
Announcement from Karen Boll • Feb. 1, 2021
Copenhagen Business School, LAW, invites you to attend the online seminar exploring 'the effect of relgion and religiosity on tax compliance decisions'. The presentation is by Recep Yucedogru, Assistant Professor in Law at Bülent Ecevit University, on his research on the Islamic stance on tax compliance.
Sign up to attend on the following website, which also has more details about the presentation:
https://cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/230/
Announcement from Miranda Sheild Johansson • Jan. 5, 2021
Announcement from Lotta Björklund Larsen, Anna-Riikka Kauppinen, & Miranda Sheild Johansson • Jan. 5, 2021
The organizers are pleased to announce that their panel, "Fiscal relations in a post-Covid world: Hopes, potencies, and discontents of tax" has been accepted by SASE, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, for their conference 3-5 July, 2021.
Please visit our News page for the panel abstract and find links for how to apply with your paper!
Announcement from Soumhya Venkatesan and Oliver Owen • Nov. 3, 2020
Soumhya Venkatesan and Oliver Owen are pleased to announce that their panel, "Good Ends and Dubious Means: Rule Breaking and Justification" has been accepted by SIEF, the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, for their virtual conference 21-24 June, 2021.
Please visit our News page for the panel abstract and find links for how to apply with your paper!
Announcement from Robin Smith and Nicolette Makovicky • Oct. 30, 2020
Robin Smith and Nicolette Makovicky are pleased to announce that their panel, "Tax Matters: Are Rules Made to Be Broken?" has been accepted by SIEF, the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, for their virtual conference 21-24 June, 2021.
Please visit our News page for the panel abstract and find links for how to apply with your paper!
Announcement from Lotta Björklund Larsen • Oct. 30, 2020
Announcement from Johanna Mugler • Nov. 5, 2020
Johanna Mugler, Lotta Björklund Larsen, and Nimmo Elmi will be on the Center for Taxpayer Rights program, Tax Chat!, on November 10, 2020 noon, Eastern Standard Time (17:00GMT), taking place live on Zoom. You can register to be part of the conversation.
Find the announcement with a link to access the Zoom meeting at the top of the page, here:
https://taxpayer-rights.org/tax-chat-no-3-the-anthropology-of-tax/
Announcement from Karen Boll • Oct. 27, 2020
Karen Boll, Yvette Lind, and Saila Stausholm from Copenhagen Business School will introduce and discuss their work in tax at the Cambridge Tax Discussion Group, on Thursday October 29, 2020, 16:00-17:00 London time. It is open to all virtually!
Find the announcement with a link to access the meeting at the bottom of the page, here:
Announcement from Oliver Owen • Oct. 13, 2020
Posted by Robin Smith and Lotta Björklund Larsen • Oct. 12, 2020
Lotta Björklund Larsen and Robin Smith have written a short blog post for the Tax Administration Research Centre Blog at the University of Exeter Business School to promote our website and some recent anthropological publications on tax, October 12, 2020, entitled The Anthropology of Tax. This is part of our ongoing effort to give voice to anthropological research on tax in society!
The Blog can be found here: http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/tarc/
And TARC's homepage can be found here: http://tarc.exeter.ac.uk/
Posted by Robin Smith • Sept. 16, 2020
Miranda Sheild Johansson and Anna-Riikka Kauppinen have just published a timely piece on fiscal life in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic on Allegra Lab, September 14, 2020.
Please visit our News page to read the article's abstract and to find links! It's a fantastic piece that highlights how the pandemic has brought fundamental tax questions back into public debate.
Posted by Robin Smith • Aug. 5, 2020
Based on three years of fieldwork at the Swedish Tax Administration, our network member Lotta Björklund Larsen depicts the inner workings of a bureaucracy of taxation in Shaping Taxpayers. Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency (Berghahn Books).
Please read Lotta's Blog post about her ethnography of taxation, as well as how taxpayers are understood and made to comply by a seemingly well-esteemed tax administration.
Posted by Robin Smith • July 22, 2020
Posted by Robin Smith • June 28, 2020
Get your coffee ready, there's new research on the anthropology of tax to read, and it's much more fun than doing your own taxes!
Nicolette Makovicky and Robin Smith co-edited a journal special issue for Social Analysis entitled,
Beyond the Social Contract: An Anthropology of Tax.
Check out our News page for details and a link to this open access publication!
Posted by Robin Smith • April 16, 2020
Posted by Robin Smith • April 16, 2020