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Inés Escobar González

@escobargonzalez.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of History at Stony Brook University; Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. www.escobargonzalez.com

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Noel B. Salazar @noelbsalazar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📢 JOB ALERT | Anthropology@KU Leuven We are hiring a tenure-track Social & Cultural Anthropologist with expertise in Latin America 🌱 Political & environmental anthro 🔎 Political economy, extractivism, indigeneity, decolonization 🎓 80% tenure track 📅 Deadline: 1/12/26 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Social and Cultural Anthropologist with Expertise in Latin America
Tenure-Track Anthro, LatAm (80%)
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Susan J. Smith @sjs1869.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Nice intro to my focus article with Gavin Wood, neat comment on ‘the edges’ of ownership, and a few pointers to some fine commentaries commissioned by the journal www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Thinking the Fault Lines of Housing Inequality
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 16/02/2026
How do we rehabilitate utopian thinking and plant positive seeds for future generations? Please join us at the first virtual salon of The Future Cafe on Feb 26 @ 8:00 pm EST. Registration below. uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls Elizabeth Roberts’s In Praise of Addiction “a worthy take on a challenging topic.” Read the full review:
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In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn How to Love Dependency in a Damaged World by Elizabeth F S Roberts
In this scrupulous study, anthropologist Roberts (God’s Laboratory) mines her fieldwork in Mexico City to upend judgmental Weste...
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Inés Escobar González @escobargonzalez.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Hello! I’m looking for rich ethnographies of the recent feminist movements in Latin America around abortion rights, femicides, and/or “buscadoras” and the disappeared. Can someone please help? Much obliged #anthrosky #anthro #socialscience #sociocultural #academicsky #academicchatter #acwri
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Veit Braun @toteraltermann.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Finally, the link to the rest of this forum (online first) in American Ethnologist: "Property and other Fictions": anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481425...
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American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Veit Braun @toteraltermann.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
@amethno.bsky.social recently invited me to write a commentary on two great ethnographies by @escobargonzalez.bsky.social & Emrah Yildiz on housing in Mexico and Iran. I really enjoyed reading both papers and I hope my piece does justice to their concerns (open access): doi.org/10.1111/amet...
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Looking forward to the forthcoming book by @kbayliss.bsky.social (of SOAS), on the growing role of private equity in water, energy and housing
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Manchester University Press - Privatising humanity
Privatising humanity - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Privatising humanity by Kate Bayliss
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Inés Escobar González @escobargonzalez.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Very happy to share my open-access article, “When property becomes rent,” which has just been published in American Ethnologist and will be showcased in a forum on property in the February issue. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Inés Escobar González @escobargonzalez.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
¡Felicidades, Karma!
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
You're getting a LOT of asks today - I am too. But as US imperialism in Latin America ramps up once again, we need @nacla-report.bsky.social more than ever. We're trying to raise $5K today. You can donate here: nacla.salsalabs.org/2025EoYDonat...
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Inés Escobar González @escobargonzalez.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This is an open letter from members of the University of Chicago community to the university administration. It is sponsored by UChicago AAUP, but you do not need to be a member to sign (though we encourage you to join). docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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AAUP AHD open letter
This is an open letter from members of the University of Chicago community to the university administration. It is sponsored by UChicago AAUP, but you do not need to be a member to sign (though we enc...
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We're thrilled to announce our latest award-winning authors in the fields of history, sociology, anthropology and more. Please help us celebrate by sharing the news! www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/u...
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UC Press June Award Winners
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our June 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Charles Bégué Fawell was just awarded the Koren Prize, which goes to the most outstanding article on any period of French history published the previous year by a scholar appointed at a college or university in the US or Canada. Congratulations Charles! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Charles Bégué Fawell's article, ‘Effervescent Seas: Racialized Labor and Mobile Militancy on the Steamship Highways of the French Indo-Pacific’, was just awarded the 2025 article prize from the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. Warmest congratulations! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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Effervescent Seas | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Last chance to be part of our FirstGen Program spring campaign and secure a $10,000 matching gift! Help us grow our program to support first-gen authors—those who are first in their family to earn a college degree. Give now: form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/univers...
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Inés Escobar González @escobargonzalez.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Well done, @abenanav.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
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Opinion | There’s a Reason the World Is a Mess, and It’s Not Trump
Global economic stagnation underlies today’s disarray.
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Inés Escobar González @escobargonzalez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A two-year opportunity for early-career anthropolgists at the LSE: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Inés Escobar González @escobargonzalez.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A brilliant and much-needed reflection on bourgeois, Anglo-American femininity at @thepointmag.bsky.social: thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
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Among the Post-Feminists | The Point Magazine
Even when sincerely believed, the “truths” of the post-feminists are alternative; their motives mixed, if not downright ulterior.
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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Grad students and recent PhDs: apply for our 2025 summer research grants! $3-4k. Apps due March 9. More info: www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp
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HPE Project 2024 Summer Research Grant CFP — History & Political Economy Project
The History & Political Economy (HPE) Project invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2024 summer research grant.
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Inés Escobar González @escobargonzalez.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Delighted to share that my book, After Inclusion: Poverty, Property, and Politics on Mexico's Financial Frontier, is now under contract with University California Press, and that my essay on the alleged end of neoliberalism is now live on @aeon.co. aeon.co/essays/pundi...
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Pundits and historians declare neoliberalism over: Mexico begs to differ | Aeon Essays
The case of Mexico shows that, despite a proliferating discourse that it is over, neoliberalism is as relentless as ever
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