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Special Issue: Securitisation and the Gendered Everyday: Global South Approaches Guest Editors: Debanuj DasGupta, Sagnik Dutta, and Niharika Banerjea I am very pleased to share that my article, “Playing the Good Samaritan”: Rethinking securitization and care work through a politics of conviviality in Santiago, Chile,“ has been published in Political Geography as part of the
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I’m delighted to share that I’ll be presenting my paper, “The Specter of the Plurinational State of Chile,” at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in New Orleans. Panel: Ghosts of Democracies Past and OtherwiseSaturday, November 22, 2025 | 2:30–4:00 p.m. | Marriott, Galerie 2 This session brings together scholars examining how
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I recently joined Matt Peterson and Anthony Dest on the Woodbine podcast to talk about our work in Chile and Colombia, and about what autonomy and peace mean in practice. We discussed Anthony’s new book, Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia, alongside my own research on Mapuche politics of autonomy, autogestión, and
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Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of meeting with Erika and Pamela from Memorarte Arpilleras Urbanas, a feminist textile collective that has run open workshops across Santiago, worked with neighborhood associations, collaborated with the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, and exhibited in the Conflict Textiles Collection in Ulster, Northern Ireland. Their
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I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be spending the next year in Santiago, Chile, for a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Universidad de Los Lagos, supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship. This opportunity marks a significant next step as I work on my first monograph, Emergent Citizenships. The book builds on my doctoral
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As the Spring 2025 semester wraps up, I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to the students in my three courses this term—ANT 202: Concepts and Methods in Cultural Anthropology, ANT 280: Anthropological Perspectives of Latin America, and ANT 385: Race, Indigeneity, and Social Justice in Latin America. In ANT 202, it was a joy
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Emory University, Anthropology Seminar Room I’m deeply grateful to have shared my work at the Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (CPCS) research workshop this past Tuesday, where I presented my paper, “The Specter of the Plurinational State of Chile: The Politics and Poetics of Autogestión.” It was a meaningful opportunity to reflect on the tensions between
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