Ana Cecilia Dinerstein

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein is Chair of Political Sociology and Critical Theory at the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, her work bridges critical theory, decolonial praxis, and grassroots social movements across Latin America, Europe, and the Global South.

• Research focuses on the Global Politics of Hope, connecting Ernst Bloch’s philosophy with radical organizing
• Key contributions: Subjectivity of Labour, Open Marxism, and Concrete Utopias framework
• Supervises research on Argentina’s social movements, prefigurative politics, and decolonial feminist theory

Her 115+ publications include monographs like The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America (2015) and Open Marxism 4 (2019). She founded the Women on the Verge network, fostering decolonial feminist scholarship globally. Awards include the Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2017). Current projects span EU Horizon 2020 and British Academy grants on urban solidarity economies and prefigurative politics.