Dr. Gastón Gordillo

Biography

Gastón Gordillo is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1990 and completed his PhD at the University of Toronto in 1999. He has held prestigious positions as a Guggenheim Fellow, visiting scholar at Harvard and Yale, and visiting professor at Cornell. He is a resident fellow at the Bellagio Study Center in Italy and has received funding for his research from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and multiple grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His recent work includes the book "Rubble: Afterlife of Destruction" (2014, Duke University Press), which received an Honorable Mention for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His research interests encompass the themes of terrain, place, territory, materiality, racialized geographies, and climate activism in South America, particularly in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina. Gordillo focuses on the intersections of social movements, agribusiness, and Indigenous rights within the context of ecological crises.

Research Interests