Publications
(* indicates peer review)
2023 "Property and the Social Life of Things." Tulane Law Review 97(3): 403-450.
2023 "The Land Question and Other Specters of the Colombian Left." Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online.
2022 “Property in Transition: Legal Fantasies, Land 'Reforms,' and Contracting Peace in Colombia.” American Anthropologist 124(1): 53-63.*
2022 “Property's Relations: Tracing Anthropology in Property Theory." Alabama Law Review 73(4): 767-782.
2021 “The Properties of Debt: Reciprocity, Precarity, and Social Obligation in Medellín.” In Propiedad sobre la tierra en Colombia: viejos y nuevos dilemas sobre la distribución (Property over Land in Colombia: Old and New Dilemmas over Distribution) (Helena Alviar García and Tatiana Alfonso Sierra, eds.).
2021 “Ground Fictions: Soil, Property, and Markets in the Colombian Conflict.” In Land Fictions: The Commodification of Land in City and Country (D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake, eds.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
2020 (ed., with Jessica Corredor Villamil) Pandemic Inequality: Civil Society Narratives from the Global South. Spanish edition: La desigualdad pandémica: narrativas de la sociedad civil desde el Sur Global. Bogotá: Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia).
2019 “Speculative Fields: Property in the Shadow of Post-Conflict Colombia." Cultural Anthropology 34(4): 580-606.*
2018 (ed., with César Rodríguez-Garavito) Justice through Transitions: Conflict, Peacemaking, and Human Rights in the Global South. Bogotá: Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society, Dejusticia. Spanish edition: Hacer justicia en tiempos de transición: El papel del activismo y las instituciones en el fortalecimiento democrático. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores.
2018 (with César Rodríguez-Garavito) “Writing Justice through Transitions.” In Justice through Transitions: Conflict, Peacemaking, and Human Rights in the Global South (César Rodríguez-Garavito and Meghan L. Morris, eds.). Bogotá: Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society, Dejusticia. Spanish edition: “Escribir la justicia a través de las transiciones.” In Hacer justicia en tiempos de transición: El papel del activismo y las instituciones en el fortalecimiento democrático (César Rodríguez Garavito and Meghan L. Morris, eds.). Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores.
2017 “La cuestión de la tierra: el despojo y la posesión en el trabajo etnográfico” (“The Question of Land: Dispossession and Possession in Ethnographic Inquiry”). Revista Colombiana de Antropología (Colombian Journal of Anthropology) 53(1): 27-57.*
2015 “Property in the Shadow of the ‘Post-Conflict.’” (“La propiedad en la sombra del ‘posconflicto.’”) Fieldsights - Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online.
2015 “Situated Storytelling: Vision in the Writing of Law and Justice.” In Human Rights in Minefields: Extractive Economies, Environmental Conflicts, and Social Justice in the Global South (César Rodríguez-Garavito, ed). Pp. 370-377. Bogotá: Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society, Dejusticia. Spanish edition: “Historias situadas. La perspectiva en la escritura del derecho y la justicia.” In Extractivismo versus derechos humanos: Crónicas de los nuevos campos minados en el Sur Global (César Rodríguez Garavito, ed.). Pp. 371-378. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores.
2010 (with César Rodríguez Garavito, Natalia Orduz Salinas, and Paula Buriticá) “La consulta previa a pueblos indígenas: Los estándares del derecho internacional” (“Prior Consultation of Indigenous Peoples: International Law Standards”). Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes.
Works in Progress
Making Peace with Property: Specters of Post-Conflict Colombia (Book manuscript under contract with Duke University Press).*
“Soil Forensics: Property and the Buried Truth in Medellín” (Article manuscript under review).*
"Paramilitary Property" (Law review article manuscript).
"Levantamientos: Raising Plots and Marking Relations for Post-Conflict Colombia” (Book chapter manuscript for edited volume).
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