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Juan Chen was trained as an ethnographer, having received her PhD from the University of Cambridge. She is interested in the role of ethical thought, experience, and practice in the shaping of the processes of social transformation. Her main focus is on self-making, diverse notions of flourishing, achievement and success, as well as on the motivational and structuring forces of values in the fostering of individual and collective understandings of social practice, value conflict and ethical accomplishment. Juan has always considered Anthropology her root discipline, and she seeks to contribute to anthropological theories of practice and accounts of the nature of social organization and transformation. Her research interests include anthropology of values, morality and ethics, sexuality, gender and intimacy.