About
32
Publications
7,308
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
605
Citations
Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Current institution
Publications
Publications (32)
Drawing on collective experience from ten collaborative research projects focused on the Global South, we identify three major challenges that impede the translation of research on sustainability and resilience into better-informed choices by individuals and policy-makers that in turn can support transformation to a sustainable future. The three ch...
Circular Economy (CE) has been configured as a powerful narrative that provides an optimistic view on the possibility of harmonizing economic growth and socio-environmental sustainability in the height of financial capitalism and the global crisis of the anthropocene. Of broad and rapid development in industrialized countries, its mainstream versio...
Este trabajo propone claves para abordar las políticas para la transición hacia una economía circular (EC) inclusiva en la Argentina. Como estrategia metodológica se estudia el caso del plástico y del vidrio, combinando la sistematización y análisis de información secundaria con entrevistas a informantes clave, para, luego, realizar un abordaje ana...
Waste pickers all over the world work innovatively to reduce the environmental footprint of cities as they struggle to meet their critical livelihood obligations. Informed by the case of waste picker organizations (WPOs) this article examines how grassroots initiatives and extreme-niche innovations are created and sustained by mobilizing resources,...
Waste picker organisations (WPOs) around the globe collect, transport and process waste to earn their living but represent a widely excluded, marginalised and impoverished segment of society. WPOs are highly innovative, created by grassroots out of “nothing” to deliver economic, social and environmental sustainability. Still, we do not know how suc...
The Circular Economy (CE) narrative is spreading at a global scale, addressing different actors and settings, and thus facing new theoretical and empirical challenges. However, CE initiatives in the Global South have tended to extrapolate developed countries’ perspectives, as if the CE provides a global and universal benchmark to converge to. Drawi...
El presente trabajo busca aportar a la problematización de políticas de producción y circulación de conocimientos, focalizando en la participación de actores que han sido históricamente invisibilizados en estos procesos. A partir de una perspectiva teórico-metodológica que recupera aportes situados de etnografías en curso con una lectura atenta a l...
El estudio realizado tuvo como objetivo central asistir técnicamente al Ministerio de Desarrollo Productivo de la Argentina para el análisis del impacto fiscal que tendría la implementación de distintas medidas de política sectorial orientadas hacia la economía circular.
En tanto propuesta vinculada al desarrollo sustentable, la economía circular p...
How is it possible to design and deploy circular economy (CE) strategies oriented to inclusive development? How can non-traditional units of production and consumption (i.e., actual productive actors such as waste picker cooperatives and peasant organizations) be integrated into these strategies? Using data collected as a result of two long-term pa...
While the circular economy (CE) is discussed in the global North as an innovative approach to waste management, the idea of circular resource flows has long been central in the work of waste pickers all over the world. They work independently or in groups, collecting, classifying, and reinserting a wide range of discarded materials into the economy...
This paper examines the multiple strategies articulated by grassroots recycler networks to bring about socioenvironmental change. The paper shows how these networks are an emblematic case of grassroots governmentality, whereby urban poor communities contribute to building more inclusive environmental regimes by developing technologies of power more...
This paper examines the multiple strategies articulated by grassroots recycler networks to bring about socioenvironmental change. The paper shows how these networks are an emblematic case of grassroots governmentality, whereby urban poor communities contribute to building more inclusive environmental regimes by developing technologies of power more...
This paper draws on an ethnographic research to critically analyze the process of formalization of the so-called “informal” recyclers within the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. It claims that their recognition by governmental and nongovernmental agencies has been mostly oriented to crystallize their role as a workforce in the lower shackles of the...
The report provides updated research outcomes of the project Recycling Networks & Waste Governance, presented during the II. International Conference on Recycling Networks and Waste Governance held in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar from 29th of April to 4th of May, 2019.
Participants of two research projects (Recycling Networks: Grassroots resilience tackling climate, environmental and poverty challenges (funded by the Swedish Research Council) and Mapping Waste Governance (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) collaborate in offering a critical inter- and transdisciplinary perspe...
Este artículo propone discutir la idea del diseño como algo único y universal al presentar los avances de un estudio etnográfico realizado en una cooperativa de cartoneros (recuperadores urbanos) localizada en el Gran Buenos Aires. Partiendo del análisis de una escena etnográfica, reconstruimos las tramas que tejen las experiencias cartoneras al cu...
Unlike the private companies that runs the waste collection system, the recovery and classification of waste carried out by cartoneros (waste pickers) in Buenos Aires metropolis has not yet been acknowledged as a “public service” (one of the main demands of cartonero organizations). Their work is based on the commercialization of recovered material...
Unlike the private companies that runs the waste collection system, the recovery and classification of waste carried out by cartoneros (waste pickers) in Buenos Aires metropolis has not yet been acknowledged as a “public service” (one of the main demands of cartonero organizations). Their work is based on the commercialization of recovered material...
The discussion on the circular economy (CE) has attracted a rising interest within global policy and business as a way of increasing the sustainability of production and consumption. Yet the literature mostly portrays a Global North perspective. There is a diverse spectrum of community-based organizations playing important roles in resource recover...
Resumen
En este trabajo presentamos resultados de un análisis etnográfico realizado con habitantes del mayor relleno sanitario actualmente activo en el Gran Buenos Aires. Estas personas que se abastecían ingresando al basural, son quienes actualmente gestionan una de las “plantas de clasificación y separación” habilitadas dentro del relleno. El aná...
This article presents the results of an ethnographic study of the practices involved in the design, construction and systematization of machinery by a cooperative of cartoneros (waste pickers) in Argentina. The research demonstrates that as well as providing financial support to the cooperative, this sociotechnical expertise contributes to defining...
This article presents results of research conducted in a cooperative of "pickers" of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area dedicated to recycling of waste, focusing on the analysis of the materiality of their practice. Ethnographic analysis of the paths of objects discarded as "rubbish" and its subsequent appropriation, my aim is to demonstrate the wa...
In recent years the solid urban waste system of the metropolis of Buenos Aires has been transformed. As a part of this process, the participation of waste pickers' cooperatives in the management of recycling programs has been promoted by governmental agencies and NGO. In this article, we use ethnographic evidence from a case study located in La Mat...
Esta es una reflexión sobre la construcción de abordajes socioantropológicos de la puesta en marcha de experiencias asociativas entre recolectores de residuos sólidos urbanos, llamados localmente �cartoneros�. Las prácticas organizativas de los cartoneros han sido abordadas a partir de una mirada dicotómica que opone informalidad-precarización-indi...
La incorporación del enfoque territorial constituye el común denominador de las propuestas más recientes generadas en el campo del desarrollo rural. En ellas se advierte un inusitado interés por aquellos particularismos asociados al territorio, que se extiende más allá de sus características económicas, ecológicas y geográficas, para incorporar los...
