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Professor Gastón Gordillo is an anthropologist at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (1999) and previously studied at the University of Buenos Aires. His research focuses on racialized geographies, deforestation, Indigenous rights, and revolutionary movements in Latin America. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of multiple grants from SSHRC. His work analyzes how agribusiness deforestation in the Gran Chaco region intersects with Indigenous resistance and climate activism. He is currently completing a book on racialized spatial anxieties in Argentina and their global implications. His earlier works include Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction (2014) and Landscapes of Devils (2004), both award-winning studies of materiality and memory.
- Education: PhD in Anthropology (University of Toronto, 1999), BA in Social Sciences (University of Buenos Aires, 1990)
Research interests span terrain, place-making, violence, and the intersections of agroecology with capitalist exploitation. He has conducted long-term ethnographic work among Toba and Guarani communities, examining land rights, colonial legacies, and political mobilization. His recent projects explore how soy supply chains enable deforestation while Indigenous movements reclaim agro-ecological territories.
Publications span over 20 years, addressing topics like Indigenous identity politics, spatial memory, and the affective dimensions of racialized spaces. His 2023 article in Political Geography theorizes spatial conditions for revolutionary movements, while earlier works analyze shamanic resistance and ID-paper fetishism in the Argentine Chaco. He has held visiting roles at Harvard, Yale, and Cornell, and was a Bellagio Fellow.
- Grants: Multiple SSHRC grants including an Insight Grant funding his Gran Chaco research
