Welcome!
I am a University Lecturer in Development Studies and Latin American Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography at Queens' College, Cambridge.
I am currently following two lines of ethnographic inquiry:
First, how 'trust and safety' has emerged as an important practice and concern in the current moment of the internet. I
am concerned with the ways that violence and global diversity raises questions about technology, trust in platforms -and not in politics?- and a new push for artificial intelligence.
Second, I am examining the rise of uncertified cemeteries and mundane mass graves in Latin America, situating these concerns in an era of political abandonment, especially in cities.
In a previous project, my first book (UC Press 2015), I carried out an ethnographic study of homicide detectives' investigations of police killings of citizens and homicides carried out by an organized crime group, establishing links between forms of violence and consensual governance of urban space in São Paulo, Brazil. I discuss some of this work here.
I am an Editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies.
Please see my CV for more details.
I am a University Lecturer in Development Studies and Latin American Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography at Queens' College, Cambridge.
I am currently following two lines of ethnographic inquiry:
First, how 'trust and safety' has emerged as an important practice and concern in the current moment of the internet. I
am concerned with the ways that violence and global diversity raises questions about technology, trust in platforms -and not in politics?- and a new push for artificial intelligence.
Second, I am examining the rise of uncertified cemeteries and mundane mass graves in Latin America, situating these concerns in an era of political abandonment, especially in cities.
In a previous project, my first book (UC Press 2015), I carried out an ethnographic study of homicide detectives' investigations of police killings of citizens and homicides carried out by an organized crime group, establishing links between forms of violence and consensual governance of urban space in São Paulo, Brazil. I discuss some of this work here.
I am an Editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies.
Please see my CV for more details.
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