Area of Interest:

Cultural Anthropology, Social Movements, Globalization, Labor, Migration, Europe and Latin America. Critical Social Theory. Experimental Research Methods.

Education:

BA Humanities, University of Salamanca (Spain) 1998
MA Latin American Studies, University of Salamanca (Spain)/McGill University (Canada) 2000.

Research & Activities:

Entered the Program in 2003.

Dissertation Research:

My research is based on a multi-sited ethnographic engagement with transnational activist networks, working with global justice movements dealing with issues of precarity and care through practices of militant research. Being attentive to Europe and the Americas, I focus both on activist practices and especially on social movements' own analytical and theoretical production about contemporary transformations. Currently engaged with European social movements, I just finished dissertation fieldwork in Madrid, with the goal of writing a thesis founded on the new anthropological approach to collective action that posits social movements as knowledge producers.

Other ongoing research activities: Co-founder of two interdisciplinary research teams at UNC: Social Movements Working Group and Counter-Cartographies Collective. Active participant at the UNC-Duke working group Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geo-politics of Knowledge

Selected Publications:

2008 “Blurring Boundaries: Recognizing Knowledge-Practices in the Study of Social Movements” in Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 81, n.1  (co-author with Michal Osterweill and Dana Powell)

2007 “Drawing Escape Tunnels through Borders: Cartographic Research Experiments by European Social Movements” (co-authored with Sebastian Cobarrubias). In Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat (eds.) An Atlas of Radical Cartography. Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press: Los Angeles.

2007 “Drifting through the Knowledge Machine” (co-authored with Sebastian Cobarrubias) In Stevphen Shukhaitis, Erika Biddle and David Graeber (eds.) Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization. AK Press: Oakland.

2006 “WAN and Activist Research: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Projects” Journal of World Anthropologies n.2 Spring

2005 “Reclaiming Knowledge: Movimientos Sociales y la producción de conocimientos” en LASA Forum Vol.XXXVI, n.1 Spring 

2003 The World Guide 2003/2004: an Alternative Reference to the Countries of our Planet. (Co-editor at the Instituto del Tercer Mundo, Montevideo, Uruguay). Garamond Press: Aurora.

2000 “Construcción del ciudadano indígena y el movimiento Maya en Guatemala” MA Thesis, Unpublished manuscript available at the Institute of Latin American Studies Library, University of Salamanca, Spain

Mayor Conference Papers

2008. “Etnografías made in USA: Rastreando Metodologías Disidentes” en Mesa de Antropología y Disidencia, XI Congreso de Antropología de España, Donosti (Spain) September 12

2006 “Delete the Border! New Mapping Projects, Activist Art Movements, and the Reworking of the Euro-Border” paper presented at the American Association of Geographers Conference in Chicago, March 8 (co-author with Sebastian Cobarrubias, Juan Ricardo Aparicio, and John Pickles).

2006 “Latinas Researching a Globalizing Europe” paper presented at the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American Studies Conference on “Knowledge, Policy, Environments” Chapel Hill, February 10

2005 “Blurring the Boundaries: Knowledge-Practice(s) in Contemporary Social Movements” at the American Anthropological Association Conference in Washington DC, December 4 (co-author with Michal Osterweill and Dana Powell)

2004 “Research Methods coming from Social Movements. Other Ethnographies are (already) Possible” Paper presented at LASA Conference, Las Vegas (USA). October 16

2004  “Activism as a Category in Action” Paper presented at “Latin America and the Caribbean: Crisis, Utopias and Works in Progress” Annual UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American Studies Conference, Chapel Hill, NC (USA) February 14

2000 “Identity Politics of the Maya Movement in Guatemala” Paper presented at the International Conference “Alternative Futures and Popular Protest”, Manchester Metropolitan University (England) November 10