Inés Escobar González
@escobargonzalez.bsky.social
Anthropologist; Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Williams College; Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
www.escobargonzalez.com
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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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@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls Elizabeth Roberts’s In Praise of Addiction “a worthy take on a challenging topic.” Read the full review:
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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February 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls Elizabeth Roberts’s In Praise of Addiction “a worthy take on a challenging topic.” Read the full review:
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
January 29, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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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Finally, the link to the rest of this forum (online first) in American Ethnologist: "Property and other Fictions":
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481425...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481425...
American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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January 23, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Finally, the link to the rest of this forum (online first) in American Ethnologist: "Property and other Fictions":
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481425...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481425...
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@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...
doi.org/10.1111/amet...
January 23, 2026 at 12:25 PM
@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...
doi.org/10.1111/amet...
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Looking forward to the forthcoming book by @kbayliss.bsky.social (of SOAS), on the growing role of private equity in water, energy and housing
Manchester University Press - Privatising humanity
Privatising humanity - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Privatising humanity by Kate Bayliss
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January 21, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Looking forward to the forthcoming book by @kbayliss.bsky.social (of SOAS), on the growing role of private equity in water, energy and housing
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/...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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/...
¡Felicidades, Karma!
New FREE Open Access Book from @ucpress.bsky.social:
Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz by Karma F. Frierson
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Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz by Karma F. Frierson
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Local Color by Karma Frierson - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
¡Felicidades, Karma!
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In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...
December 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...
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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...
One year into Trump’s return, U.S. policy toward Latin America has grown harsher, fueling repression and attacks on immigrants. Yet resistance persists across the region. This Giving Tuesday, support NACLA’s independent reporting and help us continue documenting these struggles!
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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...
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).
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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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August 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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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...
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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July 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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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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...
May 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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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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...
Effervescent Seas | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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April 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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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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.
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April 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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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April 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A brilliant and much-needed reflection on bourgeois, Anglo-American femininity at @thepointmag.bsky.social:
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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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February 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A brilliant and much-needed reflection on bourgeois, Anglo-American femininity at @thepointmag.bsky.social:
thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
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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
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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January 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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
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.
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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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January 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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...
aeon.co/essays/pundi...