Category: News
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Article out: Anthropology and the politics of alterity
Anthropology and the politics of alterity: A Latin American dialectic and its relevance for ontological anthropologies published online in Anthropological Theory This is out now, and available open access here. This is the abstract: Recent anglophone ontological anthropologies have an important Latin American intellectual and political history that is rarely fully acknowledged. This article outlines…
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Article out: Vocation and political activism
Vocation and political activism: sacrifice, stigma, love, utopia? published now in Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale This article is now out, and available here (open access). It’s part of a special section on utopian confluences and generative politics, edited by Ruy Llera Blanes and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen – ToC here. Thanks to Ruy and Bjørn for…
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Blog post: Social movement research, class and protest
Here’s a blog post I wrote about Ronald Munck’s new book, Social Movements in Latin America: Mapping the Mosaic, for the Progress in Political Economy blog run by Adam Morton at the University of Sydney.
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Platform labour conference
With support from CRASSH and the Max-Cam centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change, in April 2021, I will run a conference on Politics and Ethics of Platform Labour: Learning from Lived Experiences. I’ll post the call for papers soon. Digital platforms are increasingly important forms of organising work today, from the physical labour of…
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CRASSH Research network on Subaltern and Decolonial Citizenships
Together with Professor Sarah Radcliffe, I am co-convening a seminar series at CRASSH, on Subaltern and Decolonial Citizenships. So far, we’ve had talks by Engin Isin, Andrew Canessa and Sofia Ugarte. See the network site for more information. Citizenship is currently an arena for vibrant and contentious debate across disciplines and domains. Theoretically, much work…
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Worldwide Mobilizations
I have a chapter in the book ‘Worldwide Mobilizations: Class Struggles and Urban Commoning’, recently published by Berghahn Press. My piece is called ‘Spontaneity, antagonism and the moral politics of outrage. Urban protest in Argentina since 2001.’ I write about different kinds of street protest in Buenos Aires – organised actions by trade unions, and supposedly…
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Article out: A Kinship Anthropology of Politics?
A ‘kinship anthropology of politics’? Interest, the collective self, and kinship in Argentine unions, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute The article from my Malinowski lecture (2016) has now been published by JRAI – it’s available on Early View and here. This should be a ‘read-only’ version if your institution does not have a subscription to…
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The Social Life of Politics. Book out
My book The Social Life of Politics. Ethics, Kinship and Union Activism is now out, published by Stanford University Press. It’s the culmination of my research over the last 8 years or so into Argentine trade unionism. Here’s the blurb: A central motor of Argentine historical and political development since the early twentieth century, unions…
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Conference: Labour Politics in an Age of Precarity
April 21-22, Cambridge Labour Politics in an Age of Precarity is a workshop organised with CRASSH. This is going to be brilliant, we have some excellent papers and are going to discuss different forms of labour politics across the world. The programme, with abstracts, can be found here. Registration is open; and there will be…
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Where are the Unions? Book out
Where are the Unions? is the book that resulted from the Bread and Freedom conference that Anne Alexander and I co-organised a few years ago. It has now been published by Zed books. I am enormously proud of this collection; it is genuinely interdisciplinary, combines an activist perspective with academic rigour and addresses a really…
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