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I did my Ph.D. in Anthropology at CUNY (1988). My dissertation was on transnational capitalism and development, an ethnographic interpretation of how diverse economic and political elites articulate within a major large-scale construction project, the Yacyretá Hydroelectric High Dam, on the border of Argentina and Paraguay. Later on, I continued to work with transnationalism, technological innovation, international migration, environmentalism and globalization. I worked for 26 years at the University of Brasilia and am currently working in Mexico.
Supervisors: Eric R. Wolf
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La historia de la construcción de Brasilia (1957-60) desde la perspectiva de los trabajadores. Re... more La historia de la construcción de Brasilia (1957-60) desde la perspectiva de los trabajadores. Republicada en la colección Clásicos Recuperados de CLACSO.
DESACATOS, 2021
The 2020 pandemic is seen as a critical event that descotidianizes, in an unprecedented way, the ... more The 2020 pandemic is seen as a critical event that descotidianizes, in an unprecedented way, the entire planet. The article is a map of the main social-political-economic structures, contradictions and (re) interpretations that COVID 19 brings into light. It is a cartography in process of the coronavirus’s impacts on social interactions, on the differentiated uses of real / virtual public spaces, on the increase of new hybridisms. I also consider how the critical event makes explicit: (a) the current intensity of glocal interconnections, including environmental ones; (b) inequality structures, (c) changes in the world system. Finally, some interpretative trends of the social sciences on the pandemic are presented. I conclude that without radical social and political changes there is no hope for a better future.
Indian Anthropologist, 2019
These are uncertain times. We may be witnessing an epochal change provoked by transformations of ... more These are uncertain times. We may be witnessing an epochal change provoked by transformations of the world capitalist system (the rise of China to the system's center, for instance). Anthropologists and other social scientists face new challenges as interethnic segmentations and the relationships among glocales change, igniting old and new racisms. It seems we are entering a post-multicultural era. At the same time, the conception of what is human is increasingly undergoing radical change and the anthropocene metaphorizes the negative and unsustainable effects of the human experience after the Industrial Revolution. In many countries, the social sciences suffer budgetary cutbacks and lose their public relevance in milieus dominated by post-truths and rightist anti-intellectualism. Internet's capillarity makes the world seem transparent and the intelligentsia meaningless. There is an urgent need to rethink our positionalities, subjects and politics of visibility. Anthropologists have been interested, in different ways, in intervening with their knowledge and research in how the future unfolds. I claim that thinking on a global scale is both one way out of our current political conundrums and of regaining public visibility and influence. I also argue that anthropologists need to engage in utopian struggles in order to foster visions that may have progressive impacts on the unfolding of contemporary political, social, cultural and economic processes.
The global/local tension in the history of anthropology
El Universal, 2020
Miedo Global
Me interesa comprender cómo los empresarios e innovadores de internet se han convertido en podero... more Me interesa comprender cómo los empresarios e innovadores de internet se han convertido en poderosos capitalistas. La mercantilización de las pala-bras, el mercado virtual global, la economía de la carnada y las economías del enlace, del clic y del me gusta son modos de producir ganancias, cruciales para entender el rápido crecimiento de algunas de las principales empresas del presente. también argumento que el googleísmo es para el capitalismo contemporáneo lo que fueron el fordismo y el toyotismo: modelos de geren-ciamiento de los factores de producción que se diseminan en todo el globo. La innovación masiva en línea o crowdsourcing se presenta como un modo de apropiarse de la creatividad en línea, básico para la (re)producción del capitalismo electrónico-informático.
La historia de la construcción de Brasilia (1957-60) desde la perspectiva de los trabajadores. Re... more La historia de la construcción de Brasilia (1957-60) desde la perspectiva de los trabajadores. Republicada en la colección Clásicos Recuperados de CLACSO.
DESACATOS, 2021
The 2020 pandemic is seen as a critical event that descotidianizes, in an unprecedented way, the ... more The 2020 pandemic is seen as a critical event that descotidianizes, in an unprecedented way, the entire planet. The article is a map of the main social-political-economic structures, contradictions and (re) interpretations that COVID 19 brings into light. It is a cartography in process of the coronavirus’s impacts on social interactions, on the differentiated uses of real / virtual public spaces, on the increase of new hybridisms. I also consider how the critical event makes explicit: (a) the current intensity of glocal interconnections, including environmental ones; (b) inequality structures, (c) changes in the world system. Finally, some interpretative trends of the social sciences on the pandemic are presented. I conclude that without radical social and political changes there is no hope for a better future.
Indian Anthropologist, 2019
These are uncertain times. We may be witnessing an epochal change provoked by transformations of ... more These are uncertain times. We may be witnessing an epochal change provoked by transformations of the world capitalist system (the rise of China to the system's center, for instance). Anthropologists and other social scientists face new challenges as interethnic segmentations and the relationships among glocales change, igniting old and new racisms. It seems we are entering a post-multicultural era. At the same time, the conception of what is human is increasingly undergoing radical change and the anthropocene metaphorizes the negative and unsustainable effects of the human experience after the Industrial Revolution. In many countries, the social sciences suffer budgetary cutbacks and lose their public relevance in milieus dominated by post-truths and rightist anti-intellectualism. Internet's capillarity makes the world seem transparent and the intelligentsia meaningless. There is an urgent need to rethink our positionalities, subjects and politics of visibility. Anthropologists have been interested, in different ways, in intervening with their knowledge and research in how the future unfolds. I claim that thinking on a global scale is both one way out of our current political conundrums and of regaining public visibility and influence. I also argue that anthropologists need to engage in utopian struggles in order to foster visions that may have progressive impacts on the unfolding of contemporary political, social, cultural and economic processes.
The global/local tension in the history of anthropology
El Universal, 2020
Miedo Global
Me interesa comprender cómo los empresarios e innovadores de internet se han convertido en podero... more Me interesa comprender cómo los empresarios e innovadores de internet se han convertido en poderosos capitalistas. La mercantilización de las pala-bras, el mercado virtual global, la economía de la carnada y las economías del enlace, del clic y del me gusta son modos de producir ganancias, cruciales para entender el rápido crecimiento de algunas de las principales empresas del presente. también argumento que el googleísmo es para el capitalismo contemporáneo lo que fueron el fordismo y el toyotismo: modelos de geren-ciamiento de los factores de producción que se diseminan en todo el globo. La innovación masiva en línea o crowdsourcing se presenta como un modo de apropiarse de la creatividad en línea, básico para la (re)producción del capitalismo electrónico-informático.
