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Laura Bear specializes in psychological economic anthropology. Her work focuses on intimate economies, time, infrastructures, and public good care in South Asia, Japan, and the United Kingdom. With an interdisciplinary approach, she has led collaborations with the International Inequalities Institute and served on the editorial board of Economy and Society, as well as the ESRC Rebuilding Macroeconomics Network. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she advised SAGE as part of the behavioral science committee, focusing on questions of inequality and health disparities. At LSE, she led a team of anthropologists in action policy research regarding care during COVID. She has experimented with various mediums such as ethnographic novels, films, and policy reports. Currently, she is completing psychotherapy training in preparation for research that explores new possibilities in psychological anthropology. Her recent book, based on ESRC-funded research in India, titled 'Navigating Austerity' (2015), addresses key issues of austerity, state policy, and social relationships based on the experiences of boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, and bureaucrats in West Bengal. For her projects, she aims to build innovative practices for public good and renew citizen-state relations.
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