
Andres Leon Araya
@aleonaraya
Anthropologist and political scientist @hamiltonlugar. Author of The Coup and the Palm Trees (@UGAPress). Monocrops | State formation | Central America
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Our most recent paper: "Reifications in Disease Ecology 2: Towards a Decolonized Pedagogy Enabling Science by, and for, the People" with @[email protected], Julie Runk and Luke Bergmann. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…




Newly published! My chapter on Sahrawi human rights activism in Moroccan-occupied WS is part of an extraordinary collection published by Berghahn Books on the anthropology of time, entitled “In the Meantime.” berghahnbooks.com/title/Masqueli…

this article by @akshattuck, @MWerner2010 and others is incredibly relevant: shows how global pesticide use *continues to increase* (contrary to Food and Agriculture Organization analysis). also, how it was understimated for lower income countries. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…


¿Qué explica la violencia política? ¿Por qué las violaciones a DDHH se asemejan en países latinoamericanos? ¿Por qué la desaparición forzada de personas atraviesa fronteras? A #40AñosDemocracia son preguntas que hacemos en GT Violencias en Centroamérica/GECA [HILO 🧵] #HilandoCienciaCLACSO




Intervention Symposium — "Plantation Methodologies" — 12 #OpenAccess essays questioning scale, space, and subjecthood, edited by Alyssa Paredes SophieMHChao Andres Leon Araya antipodeonline.org/2024/01/04/pla…


Pinch me! I will be talking about my recent book by @UGAPress at my alma mater GC CUNY Anthropology in February. If you are around NYC come say hi. Also, check out the rest of the amazing line up!



Today's the day -- join us for the Antipode LDPI Lecture, "Social Reproduction and Surplus Populations of the Agrarian South", by Lyn Ossome cienciassociales.uniandes.edu.co/intrnational-c… Diana Ojeda

🌿Join us for a conversation with Alyssa Paredes & Andres Leon Araya about their new edited series "Plantation Methodologies: Questioning Scale, Space, and Subjecthood," along with Nicole Labruto and her contribution to this timely collection! April 25, 12-1 pm EDT shorturl.at/gkmFR


Tracing longer histories in Costa Rica around import substitution, Andres Leon Araya posits substitution as an index for passive revolution where everything changes only to remain the same. culanth.org/fieldsights/pi…