Keith Hart is international director of the Human Economy Programme at the University of Pretoria and lives in Paris with his family. His main research has been on economic anthropology, Africa and the African diaspora. He has taught at numerous universities (including East Anglia, Manchester, Yale and the Chicago), most significantly at Cambridge where he was director of the African Studies Centre. He has contributed the concept of the informal economy to development studies and has published widely on economic anthropology. He is the author of The Memory Bank (aka Money in an Unequal World). One personal obsession has been the relationship between movement and identity in the transition from national to world society. But his written work focuses on the apparent impasse between the national limits of politics and the fact that the economy is now global.

David Graeber and the Anthropology of Unequal Society, a review o Debt: the First 5,000 Years

Comment on David Graeber ‘Debt: The First 5,000 Years’

Contribution to a round table on David Graeber

Anthropology as a revolutionary project: David Graeber’s political legacy