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Kregg Hetherington is Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, where he holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Ethnography. As Co-Director of the Speculative Life Research Cluster and Director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab, his work examines environmental governance, infrastructure politics, and bureaucratic systems. His award-winning book 'The Government of Beans' analyzes regulatory failures in Paraguayan soy agriculture.
Research focuses on:
- Agrarian transformations and monocrop systems
- Infrastructure failure and maintenance politics
- Bureaucratic reform in Latin America
- Environmental governance in the Anthropocene
Recent publications examine urban infrastructure experimentation, fact-production in Latin American contexts, and seed patent regimes. His work has received the Rachel Carson Book Prize, Julian Steward Award, and Critical Anthropology Book Prize. Fieldwork encompasses Paraguay, Montreal, and comparative environmental governance contexts.
Article analyses show consistent engagement with infrastructure (37%), environmental governance (29%), agrarian politics (17%), and knowledge production (17%) themes. Methodological approaches emphasize ethnographic engagement with policy implementation, material semiotics of infrastructure, and historical analysis of regulatory systems.
