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  Fernando I Leiva

Fernando I Leiva

Professor

831-459-5897

831-459-3125 (Fax)

 

Social Sciences Division

Latin American & Latino Studies

Professor

Faculty

Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
Oakes College

Regular Faculty

Globalization
Labor and Social Movements
Latin American and Latino Studies
Political Economy of Development

Merrill College Academic Building
30

Merrill Academic, room 30

Winter 2024 - Tuesdays. 5:20 PM - 7:20 PM.

Merrill/Crown Faculty Services

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).

Socio-environmental conflicts; Economic elites, the state, and political domination; Political economy; Latin American Development; Social Movements; Labor flexibility; Post-neoliberalism. 

I am currently working on two projects: The first is a book manuscript - Mythmaking Eco-Extractivism: Material-Semiotic Foundations of its Imaginaries and Political Technologies -- that applies a a systemic, strategic relational, critical cultural political economy approach to study how new capitalist hegemonic project centered on "green extractivism" arises and territorializes its operations. The second is a much delayed analysis of the forms of Latin American rentier capitalism and its state and non-state political forms. 

Latin American political economy, Critical cultural political economy, Contemporary socio-environmental conflicts.

Books

Peer Reviewed Articles

Book Chapters

Work in Progress

  • "Mythmaking Eco-Extractivism: Materio-Semiotic Foundations of the Imaginaries and Political Technologies of "Decarbonization by Dispossession" 
  • “Neo-Ordoliberalism and the Left. Prospects for Strengthening Democracy and Overcoming the Contemporary Crises of Latin American Capitalism"
  • “Chile and the Contemporary Power of Capital: Peripheral Predatory Rentier Capitalism and the Political Practices of Business Elites”

Documentary: "The Mapuche and the Myth of Chile" Al Jazeera, The Big Picture Series, Directed by Sanjiev Sohal

Kim, Boyeong (bkim67)
Watanabe Farro, Alejandra (alwatana)

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 126 Digit@l Americ@s/Digit@l Latin@S
LALS 194-X Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas
LALS1 Intro to Latin American and Latino Studies

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