Category: Publications
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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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cómo se construye un sindicalista
In August 2019, my book was published in Spanish translation, by siglo ventiuno editores. cómo se construye un sindicalistavida cotidiana, militancia y afectos en el mundo sindical Aquí se encuentran notas, una reseña e entrevistas sobre el libro (en español) Una reseña publicada en la Revista de Antropologia Social de la Un. Complutense de Madrid…
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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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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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GDAT 2015 available online
A transcript of the 2015 GDAT debate is now available on Critique of Anthropology’s OnlineFirst site. We debated the motion ‘Attention to Infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political’. Laura Bear and AbdouMaliq Simone proposed the motion, Laura Rival and I opposed. Penny Harvey has written an introduction, and Soumhya Venkatesan…
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JLACA article available
My article ‘Notions of Work, Patrimony, and Production in the Life of the Colón Opera House’ was published in the July 2016 issue of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. It’s available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/plar.12111/full for those with access. Open access version is here. Here’s the abstract: This article discusses a conflict that took place among the…
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