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j.munoz@ed.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 6970
Jose-Maria Munoz
Job Title
Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development
Background
Qualifications
Licenciatura en Derecho, Univesidad Pontificia Comillas, ICADE (Spain)
Licenciatura en Antropología Social, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
MSc in Social Anthropology, University College London
PhD in Cultural Anthropology, Northwestern University (USA)
Biography
Anthropology and African Studies were for Muñoz a way out of the drudgery of legal practice in Spain, his home country. University College London and Northwestern University, two institutions renowned for their long-standing Africanist tradition, had a decisive impact on the formative years that followed his decision to abandon professional law. With time, he has come to see his legal training as an essential part of his toolkit as a researcher and a constant source of interdisciplinary impetus. From 2010 to 2012, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University’s Program in Development Studies.
Publications
(2016) with Philip Burnham "Subcontracting as Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project", in C. Dolan and D. Rajak eds. The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility. Oxford: Berghahn.
(2014) “Making Contracts Public in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon”, City & Society 26 (2): 175-195.
(2014) “A Breeding Ground for Revenue Reliability? Cameroonian Veterinary Agents and Tax Officials in the Face of Reform”, in T. Bierschenk and J.-P. Olivier de Sardan eds. States at Work: Dynamics of African Bureaucracies. Leiden: Brill
(2013) "The Revenue Imperative in Cameroon", in T. Cantens, R. Ireland and G. Raballand eds. Reform by Numbers. Washington: World Bank.
(2011) “Talking Law in Times of Reform: Paradoxes of Legal Entitlement in Cameroon”, Law & Society Review, 45 (4): 893-922
(2010) “Business Visibility and Taxation in Northern Cameroon”, African Studies Review, 53 (2): 149-175.
(2008) “Au Nom du Développement : Ethnicité, Autochtonie, et Promotion du Secteur Privé au Nord-Cameroun”, Politique Africaine, 112: 67-85.
PhD Students
Emmanuel Oluwole Oni, Anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria
Ismael Mazaaz, Water and urban dynamics in N'Djamena (Chad)
Simeon Koroma, Neighbourhood justice in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Ava Muhr, West African diaspora in Philadelphia
Konstantin Biehl, Food safety and toxic uncertainty in Kenya
Cecilie Baann, Security-development nexus and artisanal fishing in Sierra Leone
Elisa Gambino, China's involvement in the Port of Lamu (Kenya)
Francesco Longo, Music scences in the Cote d'Ivoire-Ghana borderlands
Research interests
Research interests
Political and economic anthropology, Law and society, Taxation and citizenship, Borderlands, Infrastructure, West and Central Africa, Cameroon, Chad
Muñoz has conducted extensive fieldwork in Cameroon and its neighbouring countries on topics ranging from business organisation and public administration reform to corporate social responsibility, corruption, and taxation.
His book Doing Business in Cameroon: An Anatomy of Economic Governance (International African Library, Cambridge University Press) explores how different business practices and repertoires have enabled distinct modes of governing the economy in the city of Ngaoundere (Cameroon) from the colonial era to the present. Based on fieldwork and archival research, it examines four arenas of the provincial economy—the cattle trade, road transport, public contracts, and the projects of non-governmental organizations—at the interface with state institutions.
With Paul Nugent and Hugh Lamarque, Muñoz is part of AFRIGOS. Funded by the European Research Council, this 5-year project investigates the patterns of governance that are emerging across the African continent out of unprecedented levels of investment in transport infrastructure.
Topics interested in supervising
Economic Anthropology; Legal Anthropology; Anthropology of Finance; Taxes; Bureaucracy; Public Administration; Infrastructure and Technology; Borderlands; Political Ecology; Forestry and Mining; Pastoralism; Islam; Youth; Law and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corruption and Anti-corruption; West and Central Africa; Cameroon; Chad
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Munoz J-M. Doing Business in Cameroon: An Anatomy of Economic Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 242 p. (The International African Library). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108684477 |
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Munoz J-M, Burnham P. Subcontracting as corporate social responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon pipeline. In Dolan C, Rajak D, editors, The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility. New York: Berghahn Books Inc. 2016. p. 152-178. (Dislocations). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgs09h2.12 |
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Munoz J-M. Making contracts public in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon. City and Society. 2014 Aug 31;26(2):175-195. https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12039 |
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Munoz J-M. A breeding ground for revenue reliability? Cameroonian veterinary agents and tax officials in the face of reform. In Bierschenk T, de Sardan J-PO, editors, States at Work: Dynamics of African Bureaucracies . Leiden: Brill. 2014. p. 301-328. (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004264960_013 |
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Munoz Martin J. The Revenue Imperative in Cameroon. In Cantens T, Ireland R, Raballand G, editors, Reform by Numbers: Measurement Applied to Customs and Tax Administrators in Developing Countries. Washington DC: World Bank. 2013. p. 37-58. 3. (Directions in Development). https://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-9713-8 |
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Munoz Martin J. Talking Law in Times of Reform: Paradoxes of Legal Entitlement in Cameroon. Law and Society Review. 2011 Dec;45(4):893-921. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5893.2011.00460.x |
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Munoz Martin J. Business Visibility and Taxation in Northern Cameroon. African Studies Review. 2010;53(2):149-175. https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2010.0009 |
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Munoz Martin J. Au Nom du Développement: Ethnicité, Autochtonie, et Promotion du Secteur Privé au Nord-Cameroun. Politique Africaine. 2008;112:67-85. |
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