Projects
Emergent Citizenships
In the context of ongoing scholarly debates on global democracy, Chile’s 2019 “Social Explosion” (Estallido Social) and failed constitution re-writing processes (2020-2023) stand out as watershed events that illustrate broader trends of democratic practice in everyday life.
Gendered Archives
In Peri-urban Santiago, arpilleras (storytelling quilts) workshops serve as a gendered and sensorial archive of community history, serving as an important site for decolonial research into feminist epistemologies.
Research as Reportage
This project examines Pedro Lemebel’s chronicles, and the publics through which they circulate, to analyze how the politics and poetics of autogestión have animated everyday aspirations, imagined futures, and lived practices in Santiago de Chile’s working-class neighborhood communities.
Indigenous Energy Futures
The current scholarship on Indigenous politics and wind power emphasizes that resistance to local windfarm proposals often targets the political and corporate climate behind renewable energy projects. In contrast, this research project examines how Mapuche community members and their non-Indigenous collaborators seek to rectify the longstanding social, racial, and political issues that prevent the construction of their proposed windfarms.
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