Faculty Directory
- Title
- Professor
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Latin American & Latino Studies
- Affiliations Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Oakes College
- Phone 831-459-5897
- Fax 831-459-3125
- Website
- Office Location
- Merrill College Academic Building, 30
- Merrill Academic, room 30
- Office Hours On Sabbatical
- Mail Stop Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High St.
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Development Economics, Globalization, Labor and Social Movements, Latin American and Latino Studies, Political Economy of Development
- Courses LALS 200 Bridging Latin American and Latino Studies; LALS 200-A Power and Society; LALS 245 Epistemologies of the South; LALS 258 Critical Cultural Political Economy; LALS 94-X Mother Nature, Capitalism, and Crises; LALS 158 Latin American Political Economy; LALS 194-X Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas; LALS1 Intro to Latin American and Latino Studies
Summary of Expertise
Socio-environmental conflicts; Economic elites, the state, and political domination; Political economy; Latin American Development; Social Movements; Labor flexibility; Post-neoliberalism.
Research Interests
I am currently working on two projects: The first focuses on fleshing out a systemic, strategic relational, critical cultural political economy approach for the study of economic elites and the contemporary power of capital and capitalist classes. I am a member of CLACSO's Working Group on Élites empresariales, estado y dominación (Business Elites, the State, and Domination). The second project examiines current strategies to expand the frontiers of extractivism focused on Chile's Atacama region. I co-coordinate the Research Cluster on Critical Cultural Political Economy of Extractivism. I just finished a book The Left Hand of Capital: Neoliberalism and the Left in Chile (SUNY Press, forthcoming) and I am revising the Spanish translation.
Biography, Education and Training
Born in Santiago, Chile, I am a transnational Chilean.
PhD in Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
MA in Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
BA in Economics, American University (Washington D.C).
Teaching Interests
Latin American political economy, Critical cultural political economy, Contemporary socio-environmental conflicts.
