Publications

Peer/Editor Reviewed Publications

2023 Ethical Disconcertment and the Politics of Troublemaking: Landmines, Humanitarian Demining and Ecologies of Trouble in Rural Colombia. American Ethnologist. (Fall 2023). LINK

2023 Explosiveness: Territories of War and Technoscientific Practices in Colombia. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. Co-authored with Julia Morales Fontanilla. LINK

2023  Introduction to The Domestication of War. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 9 (1). Co-authored with Xan Chacko, Jennifer Terry, and Astrida Neimanis. LINK

2023  Making Peace Possible Amidst Minefields. Hot Spots, Fieldsights, July. LINK

Forthcoming  Sensory Co-laboring: Mine Detection Dogs and Handlers in Humanitarian Demining in Colombia. Environmental Humanities 15 (3).

Forthcoming. Ordinary Warfare and Militarized Landscapes. A Syllabus. Critical Ethnic Studies Journal.  9 (1). (Fall 2023).

2022  “Landscapes of Suspicion: Minefields and Cleared-Lands in Rural Colombia.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, January 25. LINK

2021  “Aprender a tocar bien.” Boletina Anual # 9, Escuela de Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. September 2021. LINK

2020  “Artefacto Explosivo Improvisado: Landmines and Rebel Expertise in Colombian Warfare,” Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 3 (1): 472–92. LINK

2020  “On Landmines and Suspicion: How (not) to Walk Explosive Fields.” Environment & Planning D: Society & Space’s online Forum. LINK

2017  “Ethics, Collaboration, and Knowledge Production: Digital Storytelling with Sexually Diverse Farmworkers in California.” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. 6(1) Spring. Co-authored with Tania Lizarazo, Elisa Oceguera, David Tenorio, Diana Pardo Pedraza and Robert McKee Irwin.  LINK

Book Chapters

2023  Quiebrapatas. In Belicopedia. Edited by Daniel Ruiz Serna and Diana Ojeda. Bogotá, Colombia. Universidad de los Andes. LINK

2017  The Amputated Body: Ghostly and Literal Presence. In Fanta Castro, Herrero-Olaizola and Rutter-Jensen (eds.), Territories of Conflict: Traversing Colombia through Cultural Studies. New York: University of Rochester Press. LINK

Book Reviews

2023  War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life. Current Anthropology 64 (3): 352–53. LINK

2022  Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin by Kimberly Theidon. Anthropological Quarterly 95 (4): 497–504. LINK

Books

2010  Ellas y nosotras: Luchas y contradicciones en las formas de (auto)representación de la mujer (1930-1932). Bogotá: Colección Prometeo, Universidad de los Andes. LINK

Online publications

2020  Mine Detection Dog ‘Unit’: More Than Humans in the Humanitarian World. Platypus: The CLASTAC Blog. LINK

2016  Scaling Up Trust in Suspicious Landscapes: Artefactos Explosivos Improvisados and Humanitarian Demining in Colombia. Backchannels, Society for Social Studies of Science. LINK

Work Progress

In Preparation  Landscapes of Suspicion: Minefields, Peace Laboratories, and the Affective Ecologies of (Post)War in Colombia. [Book Manuscript]