MsRebecca 'Willow'-Anne Hutton

Willow Hutton is a PhD candidate in Anthropology. Before landing in the discipline, she completed a BA Honours from the University of Melbourne and undergrad from QUT majoring in critical criminology, and then worked for several years as a Research Assistant in the multidiscplinary Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University. Her PhD project looks at mutual aid in the COVID-19 pandemic, using an economic anthropology lens to ask what the recent outpouring of autonomous solidarity networks (in the vein of 'everyday anarchism') can tell us about the nature of crisis, labour, reciprocity, and economic relations outside the market economy. Outside the academy, she is engaged in various forms of organising and passiontate about genuinelly grassroots, community-led social change.