Ana Cecilia Dinerstein

BLURB

Political Sociologist and critical tgeorist with an interdisciplinary expertise in work, social movement, utopia, Marxist, Feminist and Decolonial theories,  critique of political economy and the global politics of hope.

Profile

I teach political sociology, critical/Marxist theory, and the politics of the global south, especially Latin America. I am a critical theorist and my method of enquiry combines a critique of political economy with the philosophy of hope, politics, critical feminism, political sociology and decolonial approaches. My research is transdisciplinary and international. I am an Open Marxist, who is unhappy with conventional theories that are failing societies to flourish, including traditional Marxism. By engaging with Ernst Bloch’s philosophy, I have opened new interdisciplinary areas of critical research such as the ‘radical politics of hope’ and the ‘prefigurative critique of political economy’. I am dedicated to theoretical innovation that has significant policy implications. At the centre of my research is the analysis of the contradictory processes of political and socioeconomic transformation led by social, labour, indigenous, urban and rural movements mainly in the Global South but not exclusively. I explore how their ‘concrete utopias’, i.e. the innovative forms of production and social reproduction that they are bringing about contest patriarchal, colonial and capitalist powers, how they are ‘translated’ by the state into the law and policy, and how they can move beyond the limits imposed to human flourishing by such powers

Research Interests 

• Political Sociology
• Global Political Economy
• Marxism and Critical Theory
• Social reproduction Feminism
• Decolonial theory
• 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
• Social reproductions and new forms of utopia
• Political philosophy and epistemology

Research networks

• 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 Roles

• Work, Employment & Society (BSA). Editorial board 2018-2019
• Work Futures, Bristol University Press. Advisory Board, 2018-
• Sociology of Work Journal, Madrid. International Advisory Board, 2017-present
• Latin American Observatory, IEALC. International Advisory Board, 2014-present
• Sociology, Associate Board, 2013-2015
• Capital & Class. Editor. 2001-2005
• Sociology, Special Issue 2014. Guest Co-Editor

Knowledge Exchange and Public/media engagement

• 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