Co-laboring: from Retazos to Everyday Militarisms

Extending my research on explosive violence beyond single-authored ethnography, in the last six years, I have collaborated with other anthropologists and interdisciplinary scholars in diverse research and editorial projects around experimental anthropological writing, global biotechnologies of detection, and everyday militarisms.

Pardo Pedraza, Diana, and Darcie DeAngelo. 2026. “Grounding Specifics: Rats and Dogs in Landmine Detection.” War & Society, June 3, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2026.2679835.

Morales Fontanilla, Julia Alejandra, and Diana Pardo Pedraza. 2025. “Time and the Remains of War: Retazos of Morgues and Minefields in Colombia.” Ethnography 0 (November). https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381251398283.

Pardo Pedraza, Diana, and Julia Morales Fontanilla. 2023a. “Explosiveness: Territories of War and Technoscientific Practices in Colombia.” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 28 (3): 239–50. https://doi.org/10/gshpg8.

Pardo Pedraza, Diana, Xan Sarah Chacko, Jennifer Terry, and Astrida Neimanis. 2023. “Introduction to The Domestication of War.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 9 (1). https://doi.org/10/gtxmzx.

Pardo Pedraza, Diana, and Julia Alejandra Morales Fontanilla. 2023b. “Response to Commentaries to Explosiveness: Territories of War and Technoscientific Practice in Colombia.” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 28 (4): 360–61. https://doi.org/10/gs5cvj.