Filipe CalvãoFilipe Calvão is an economic and environmental anthropologist and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His research explores the politics, ecologies, and economies of mineral extraction in postcolonial Arica. Currently, he investigates the intersection of digitalization, labor, and extractivism, with a particular focus on crypto-mining. His research has been published in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Annual Review of Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Political Geography, and Extractive Industries and Society. In addition to being a trained gemmologist and diamond grader, he is the co-editor of the Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology. Previously, he led the SNSF project 'Transparency: Qualities and Technologies of the Global Gemstone Industry' and is now the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council's Starting Grant 'Synthetic Lives: The Futures of Mining.' Read More Read Less