Jon Schubert is an academic nomad and currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, Brunel University London, and Visiting Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. He is, among other things, the author of Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola (Cornell University Press, 2017) and an editor at Allegra (allegralaboratory.net). He has extensive ethnographic fieldwork experience in Angola and Mozambique, and currently studies infrastructures, oil dependency, and crisis in Lobito, Angola.