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Critical Research on the Global Politics of Hope.

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Bath. Her research on ‘the global politics of hope’ connects critical theory with movements’ autonomous praxis. Her publications include Open Marxism 4: Against a Closing World (Pluto Press, 2019, with J. Holloway); The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), The Labour Debate (Routledge, 2002 with M. Neary) Her book A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money, and the Capitalist State Between Crisis and Utopia  (with F.H.Pitts), Emerald 'SocietyNow' series, is forthcoming in January 2021. 

Profile

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (PhD Sociology Warwick University) is a critical theorist, political sociologist and scholar activist.  Her research interest as work, social movements, critical sociology and theory, Bloch’s philosophy, open Marxism, feminism, decolonial horizons and contemporary forms of utopia.  She has created a new transdisciplinary research field: ‘the Global Politics of Hope’, the focus of which is the contradictory processes of transformation led by social, labour, indigenous, urban and rural movements mainly in the Global South but not exclusively. Her notion of The art of organising hope, that is the collective resistance and organising processes that give form to alternative realities, horizons and practices, has inspired artists, NGOs and radical pedagogues’ projects in Europeand Latin America. She is the creator and Convenor of the activist scholar female Network Women on the Vergeand the ESRC SWDTP Standing Seminar in Critical Theory. Her publications (translated into Spanish, Italian, Turkish, French, Dutch) include The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope (2015, Palgrave), Social Sciences for An Other Politics: Women Theorising without Parachutes (ed. 2016, Palgrave) and Open Marxism against a closing world (ed. 2019, Pluto Press). She has two forthcoming co-authored books for a general audience: A world beyond work? (Emerald, with F. Harry Pitts, 2019) and Dynamics of Hope:(PM, with Sarah Amsler, 2020). 

Personal webpage: https://www.anaceciliadinerstein.com

Research Interests 

• Global Political Economy
• Marxism and Critical Theory
• Feminism
• Philosophy of Hope
• Decolonial theory
• Political Sociology
• Sociology of work: Class, work, labour and labour subjectivity
• Social movements - Urban, rural and indigenous movements
• Social and Solidarity Economy
• The Commons, collective action and pre-figurative politics
• Latin America and the Global South
• Ernst Bloch
• Contemporary forms of Utopia

Research networks

• CITTS
• Global Project
• Seminar in Critical Theoy and Subjectivity, Institute of Sociology, Universidad Autonoma Benemerita de Puebla
• ESRC SWDTP Standing Seminar in Critical Theory
• CESDER - Prodes, Puebla Mexico
• Victoria Deluxe: The Art of Organising Hope 
• Social Science Centre
• Unitierra, Oaxaca
• Transnational Institute, Amsterdam
• European Social Movement Network, CES, Columbia University.
• Latin American Council for Social Sciences (CLACSO).
• Founder/Convenor of Labour in Transition (LITTINet-work) 
• Founder/Convenor ‘Women on The Verge’
• Institute for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (IEALC), UBA

Editorial and Advisory Roles

Engaged Social Movements,  Book Series, Advisory board, Lead: Laurence Cox

Futures of Work, Bristol University Press. Advisory Board, 2018-present. 

Work, Employment & Society (BSA). Editorial board 2018-2019

Sociology, Associate Board, 2013-2015 - Guest Editor 2014

Capital & Class. Editor. 2001-2005

Fuegia, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, Advisory Board

Latin American and Caribbean Observatory, IEALC. International Advisory Board, 2014-present

Trabajo y Sociedad, Argentina, Advisory board

Sociology of Work Journal, Madrid. International Advisory Board, 2017-present

Knowledge Exchange and Public/Media engagement

• Carving out new politics of hope (by A.Dune) https://www.bath.ac.uk/case-studies/carving-out-new-politics-of-hope-for-2019/
• The Art of Organising Hope: About progressive movements and movements for change across Latin America and the rest of the world,University of Bath,  Video: https://vimeo.com/300540585  
• TAOH Ghent, video: 
• TAOH Ghent video 2:
• Interview by Victoria Deluxe:Hope is an invitation to work together 
• Expert comment and interview ‘Recent British Politics after BREXIT and the elections’, Channel 8 Metro, TV Buenos Aires, 15 June,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qsi2QJyLYU 
• Expert comment and interview ‘Why BREXIT?’, Asuntos Públicos, Channel 8 Metro, 23/6, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpnw9cXjfrI
• Expert comment and interview ‘The English Riots and the crisis in Europe’, Asuntos Públicos, Channel 8 Metro TV Cable Vision, Buenos Aires, 15/9
• Public Seminar ‘Concrete Utopia’, New School for Social Research, New York. http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/12/concrete-utopia/
• Interview: ‘Reorganizar la esperanza. Por un Marxismo abierto y decolonial’, Alejandro Mantilla, La Siniestra, http://lasiniestra.com, 15/11/17 .
• One day Debate with Bristol Social Movements: Marx in the key of Hope: Bristol Social Movements and Initiatives’, SWDTP Academic-led collaboration, with F.H. Pitts, January 29.

Global political economy, class, work and crisis
Urban, rural and indigenous movements in Latin America and the Global South
Social and solidarity economy
Alternative forms of social reproduction and new forms of understanding utopia
The Commons, collective action and pre-figurative politics
Marxism and new critical theory
Decolonial theory and social reproduction feminism
Political philosophy and epistemology surrounding social emancipation
Marxism and the new critical theory
Decolonial theory