Chakad Ojani

Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS
Researcher, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University

Chakad Ojani received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester in 2021. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Jagiellonian University (2021–2022) and Uppsala University (2022–2024). His thesis drew on twelve months of ethnographic research on fog-capture, informal urbanization, and human-environment relations in Lima and other parts of coastal Peru. This work received the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Radcliffe-Brown Sutasoma Award and its findings have been published in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology.

Chakad Ojani’s research interests lie at the intersection of the anthropology of infrastructure, environmental anthropology, and science and technology studies. As a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, he is working on the project “Infrastructuring Outer Space, Un-earthing Anthropology.” Taking Sweden as its ethnographic focus, this study investigates the making and reshaping of (extra)planetary ecologies through various forms of infrastructural mediation. Specifically, Ojani will examine the discursive, material, and speculative practices whereby environments – both on and off Earth – are reimagined and modified amidst contemporary efforts to infrastructuring Earth’s orbital environment and beyond. Against this empirical backdrop, the project seeks to elucidate the possibilities and limitations of a geocentric approach to the social study of outer space.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2026-27.