Inés Escobar González

Thinking the Fault Lines of Housing Inequality Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Nice intro to my focus article with Gavin Wood, neat comment on ‘the edges’ of ownership, and a few pointers to some fine commentaries commissioned by the journal www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’ve never even heard of it. And I do think that the proliferation of content has made it harder to converge around media without some extra effort to recommend/ask for recommendations/properly socialize. I’ll check it out! Hope you’re well, Biella xx

For those of you who care, Mexico has been taken over by blockades and violence since this morning, when U.S.-Mexican military forces killed el Mencho, the head of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel, the most powerful and deadliest of Mexican organized crime.

How do we rehabilitate utopian thinking and plant positive seeds for future generations?

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In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn How to Love Dependency in a Damaged World by Elizabeth F S Roberts In this scrupulous study, anthropologist Roberts (God’s Laboratory) mines her fieldwork in Mexico City to upend judgmental Weste...

@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls Elizabeth Roberts’s In Praise of Addiction “a worthy take on a challenging topic.” Read the full review:

Hello! I’m looking for rich ethnographies of the recent feminist movements in Latin America around abortion rights, femicides, and/or “buscadoras” and the disappeared. Can someone please help? Much obliged #anthrosky #anthro #socialscience #sociocultural #academicsky #academicchatter #acwri

American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the title to browse this issue

Finally, the link to the rest of this forum (online first) in American Ethnologist: "Property and other Fictions":

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481425...

@amethno.bsky.social recently invited me to write a commentary on two great ethnographies by @escobargonzalez.bsky.social & Emrah Yildiz on housing in Mexico and Iran. I really enjoyed reading both papers and I hope my piece does justice to their concerns (open access):

doi.org/10.1111/amet...

Manchester University Press - Privatising humanity Privatising humanity - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Privatising humanity by Kate Bayliss

Looking forward to the forthcoming book by @kbayliss.bsky.social (of SOAS), on the growing role of private equity in water, energy and housing

NAFTA and the Making of the Mexican Subprime Lending Industry by Inés Escobar González - American Ethnological Society Paving the way for NAFTA was as consequential for Mexico as NAFTA itself. Mexico’s entry into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came with

This builds on my also recently published essay, NAFTA and the Making of the Mexican Subprime Lending Industry, in AES online. americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Very happy to share my open-access article, “When property becomes rent,” which has just been published in American Ethnologist and will be showcased in a forum on property in the February issue. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

¡Felicidades, Karma!

The cover of our book entitled PEAK PHARMA: TOWARD A NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH.

In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...

You're getting a LOT of asks today - I am too. But as US imperialism in Latin America ramps up once again, we need @nacla-report.bsky.social more than ever. We're trying to raise $5K today. You can donate here: nacla.salsalabs.org/2025EoYDonat...

AAUP AHD open letter This is an open letter from members of the University of Chicago community to the university administration. It is sponsored by UChicago AAUP, but you do not need to be a member to sign (though we enc...

This is an open letter from members of the University of Chicago community to the university administration. It is sponsored by UChicago AAUP, but you do not need to be a member to sign (though we encourage you to join).

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I promise. I’ve seen them.

They actually keep a physical copy of all applications in the basement of the SoF. Boxes and boxes upon boxes of moldy client lists.

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We're thrilled to announce our latest award-winning authors in the fields of history, sociology, anthropology and more. Please help us celebrate by sharing the news! www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/u...

Charles Bégué Fawell was just awarded the Koren Prize, which goes to the most outstanding article on any period of French history published the previous year by a scholar appointed at a college or university in the US or Canada. Congratulations Charles! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Charles Bégué Fawell's article, ‘Effervescent Seas: Racialized Labor and Mobile Militancy on the Steamship Highways of the French Indo-Pacific’, was just awarded the 2025 article prize from the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. Warmest congratulations! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

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Opinion | There’s a Reason the World Is a Mess, and It’s Not Trump Global economic stagnation underlies today’s disarray.

Well done, @abenanav.bsky.social.

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A two-year opportunity for early-career anthropolgists at the LSE:

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Among the Post-Feminists | The Point Magazine Even when sincerely believed, the “truths” of the post-feminists are alternative; their motives mixed, if not downright ulterior.

A brilliant and much-needed reflection on bourgeois, Anglo-American femininity at @thepointmag.bsky.social:

thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

HPE Project 2024 Summer Research Grant CFP — History & Political Economy Project The History & Political Economy (HPE) Project invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2024 summer research grant.

Grad students and recent PhDs: apply for our 2025 summer research grants! $3-4k. Apps due March 9. More info: www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp

Pundits and historians declare neoliberalism over: Mexico begs to differ | Aeon Essays The case of Mexico shows that, despite a proliferating discourse that it is over, neoliberalism is as relentless as ever

Delighted to share that my book, After Inclusion: Poverty, Property, and Politics on Mexico's Financial Frontier, is now under contract with University California Press, and that my essay on the alleged end of neoliberalism is now live on @aeon.co.

aeon.co/essays/pundi...

You’re always ahead. What do you mean, good sir?

I would also love to be included. Thank you!