Claudia Zamorano
Visiting Scholar
Claudia Villareal Zamorano is a Mexican social anthropologist who specializes in urban studies. She is a visiting researcher at the CPCP. In 1999, she gave her dissertation at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, which analyzed housing strategies among low-income families in Ciudad Juárez, a city on the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2000, she joined as researcher the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Mexico City. Since then she has worked on four major projects: Minimal Housing for Workers in post-revolutionary Mexico; Middle class and urban spaces; Privatization of public security and spaces; Vulnerable populations and spatial justice in metropolitan spaces.
Participating Years
2011–2012
How to Fight: Transformational Politics and Culture
In response to contemporary crises of economics and politics one often sees polemics caught between reform and revolution but this division may be false from the position of radical politics and thought. As many have shown, reform has a more radical potential, one that takes social forms seriously enough to push their limits, to create new relations, to pose, as it were, non-reformist reform. Are there philosophical, literary, and aesthetic expressions of possibility that give us some purchase on rethinking how we do what we do?
2010–2011
Labor/Crisis/Protest
Labor processes and conditions of employment in almost all sectors of the economy and most of the world have been revolutionized over the last thirty years. Generally, the share of wages in gross domestic product has declined while the share taken by capital (finance in particular) has soared. The response (or lack of it) to these new conditions has been patchy, raising questions of the state of political consciousness and political subjectivity among affected populations. Where, many ask, is the outrage and why the lack of mass protest and mass movement?