Sustainable Development Goals
Research interests
• Work anthropology
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Social inequality
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Anthropology of contemporary capitalism
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New technologies and work
Profile
Professor Luis Reygadas holds a Ph.D. in Anthropological Sciences and has been an academic in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus, since 1993.
His main lines of research are: labor cultures, anthropology of contemporary capitalism and inequality in Latin America. His latest book is "Antropólog@s del milenio: Desigualdad, precarización y heterogeneidad en las condiciones laborales de la antropología en México" (Mexico, 2019).
He is also the author of "Ensamblando culturas: Diversidad y conflicto en la globalización de la industria" (Barcelona, 2002); "La apropiación: Destejiendo las redes de la desigualdad" (Barcelona, 2008); "Indelible Inequalities in Latin America: Lessons from History, Politics and Culture" (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010, co-edited with Paul Gootenberg).
His recent publications include "Critique of Critical Dualism. The Return of Essentialist Approaches in the Analysis of Culture," Sociologica, year 34, no. 96, 2019, pp. 73-106; "Gifts, False Gifts, Commons, and Exploitation in Digital Networks. Diversity of the virtual economy," Desacatos, no. 56, 2018, pp. 70-89; "Who are the new Mexican anthropologists?", in María Ana Portal (coord.) Repensar la antropología mexicana del siglo XXI. Viejos problemas, nuevos desafíos, Mexico: Juan Pablos Editor, 2019, pp. 39-81; "Entre Marx y Latour. Spatial crystallization of asymmetries, territorial agency and inequality," in Mercedes de Virgilio and Mariano Perelman (coords.) Disputas por el espacio urbano. Desigualdades persistentes y territorialidades emergentes, Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2018, pp. 19-41 and "The symbolic construction of inequalities", in Elizabeth Jelin, Renata Motta and Sergio Costa (eds.) Global entangled inequalities. Conceptual debates and evidence from Latin America, London and New York: Routledge, 2018, pp. 144-158.
Member of the National System of Researchers since 1989, Level III since 2010.
Elinor Ostrom Prize. "Right to knowledge as a common good: promoting open access in Latin America and the Caribbean" (2014). Fellowship from the Free University of Berlin for a research stay in the inequdades.net network (Research Network on Interdependent inequalities in Latin America) (2014). Research Award from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, for the book "La apropiación. Unweaving the webs of inequality" (2010).
Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities for a research sabbatical at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (2003-2004). Labor Research Award granted by the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, with funds from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), for the work "Mercado y sociedad civil en la fábrica. Labor cultures in maquiladoras in Mexico and Guatemala" (2000).
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