Dr Elizaveta Fouksman is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Justice at the Centre for Public Policy Research in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King's College London. She is also a research associate of the University of Oxford and the University of the Witwatersrand.
Liz has a DPhil (PhD) in International Development from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and has held research fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the Berggruen Institute and the Ford Foundation at (respectively) the University of Oxford, Harvard University and the University of the Witwatersrand.
Her research interests span the post-work economy; universal basic income grants; the moral imperative to work and welfare provisions; the politics of time and time-use; as well as the sociology of globalization and development along with environmental justice and social movements .
Liz's doctoral research looked at the way networks of development organizations (foundations, NGOs and grassroots activists) create civil society knowledge networks. Her work examines the way these networks create, spread and dispute ideas, in particular environmental ideas, from the grassroots to the global and back again. To understand such dynamics, Liz constructed two multi-sited case studies. The first connects organizations in San Francisco, Nairobi, and pastorialist communities in northern Kenya. The second case study connects Geneva, Bishkek, and village communities in the south of Kyrgyzstan. This project was supervised by William Beinart and Nandini Gooptu, and examined by Jonny Steinberg and David Lewis. Liz was awarded her doctorate degree with no corrections in 2015.
Liz’s current project examines our moral, social and cultural attachment to wage labor, and the impediment such attachment poses for new imaginaries of the future of work and distribution in an increasingly automated world. In particular, Liz is investigating the ways unemployed welfare recipients in southern Africa understand the links between time-use, work, and income. Her research asks how such links challenge futurist calls for the decommodification of labor via mechanisms such as a universal basic income guarantee and/or shorter working hours.
Liz has a DPhil (PhD) in International Development from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and has held research fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the Berggruen Institute and the Ford Foundation at (respectively) the University of Oxford, Harvard University and the University of the Witwatersrand.
Her research interests span the post-work economy; universal basic income grants; the moral imperative to work and welfare provisions; the politics of time and time-use; as well as the sociology of globalization and development along with environmental justice and social movements .
Liz's doctoral research looked at the way networks of development organizations (foundations, NGOs and grassroots activists) create civil society knowledge networks. Her work examines the way these networks create, spread and dispute ideas, in particular environmental ideas, from the grassroots to the global and back again. To understand such dynamics, Liz constructed two multi-sited case studies. The first connects organizations in San Francisco, Nairobi, and pastorialist communities in northern Kenya. The second case study connects Geneva, Bishkek, and village communities in the south of Kyrgyzstan. This project was supervised by William Beinart and Nandini Gooptu, and examined by Jonny Steinberg and David Lewis. Liz was awarded her doctorate degree with no corrections in 2015.
Liz’s current project examines our moral, social and cultural attachment to wage labor, and the impediment such attachment poses for new imaginaries of the future of work and distribution in an increasingly automated world. In particular, Liz is investigating the ways unemployed welfare recipients in southern Africa understand the links between time-use, work, and income. Her research asks how such links challenge futurist calls for the decommodification of labor via mechanisms such as a universal basic income guarantee and/or shorter working hours.