Harry Walker

Harry Walker is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, specializing in the anthropology of South America with a focus on the indigenous peoples of Amazonia, particularly the Urarina of Peru.

His research examines the tension between autonomy and dependence in Amazonian social life, as detailed in his monograph "Under a Watchful Eye" (2013). He has developed anthropological frameworks for understanding responsibility within justice systems, proposed an "ecology of singularity" challenging Western individualism through Amazonian conceptions of the common, and analyzed apocalyptic discourse where "weather-time" functions as a collectively produced global commons. His work on bureaucratic appropriations by Amazonian peoples transcends state/non-state dichotomies, revealing novel political and linguistic engagements.