Maristella Svampa, PhD
Dr. Maristella Svampa is a researcher, sociologist, activist, and writer.
She lives in Argentina and is a researcher at the Conicet (National Center for Scientific and Technical Research), Argentina, and professor at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata (province of Buenos Aires). She is the coordinator of the Group of Critical and Interdisciplinary Studies on the Energy Problem (www.gecipe.org), and participates in the Group of Alternative Development, since 2011.
Maristella received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Kónex award in Sociology (Argentina) in 2006 and 2016, the Kónex award in Political and Sociological essay (2014), and the Platinum Kónex Award in Sociology (2016). In 2019, she received the National Award in Sociology for her book Debates Latinoamericanos.
Courses Taught
Foundations: Social Movements and Human Rights in the Southern Cone after Dictatorships
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She has published more than twenty academic books and three novels. Her last publications in English are Development in Latin America, Challenges, Resistances, Future Directions, Fernwood Publishing: Canada (2019) and Neo-Extractivism Dynamics in Latin America, Socioenvironmental Conflicts, Territorial Turn, and New Political Narratives, Elements: Cambridge University Press, USA (2019).
Education
- PhD, Sociology, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- BA, Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
