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Dr. Emanuela Guano

 

Research Interests: Urban Studies; Space and Place; Public and Visual Culture; Modernity, Globalization and Transnationalism; Citizenship and the State; Gender and Class Identities, the Anthropology of Work; Italy, Argentina.
 

 

Emanuela Guano earned her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. Her research interests range from the study of ideology and the built environment to the analysis of spatial practice and discourse, and from the critique of citizenship and the public sphere to the exploration of how gendered subjectivities are crafted in the public realm. In her ethnographies of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Emanuela Guano explored how the city functions as a locus, a medium, and a tool of hegemony and social and political struggle. Her current ethnographic project focuses on how residents of a north Italian city negotiate citizenship and the state through their everyday life.

Courses Taught:

  • Anthropology of Violence
  • Anthropological Theory
  • Anthropological Theory and Praxis
  • Modernity and Identity
  • Urban Anthropology
  • Visual Culture
  • Graduate Seminar in Anthropology

Recent Publications

2007 "Respectable Ladies and Uncouth Men: The Performative Politics of Class and Gender in the Public Realm of an Italian City." Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 120, Issue 475 pp. 48-72.

2006 “Fair Ladies: The Place of Middle-Class Women Antique Dealers in a Postindustrial Italian City,” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 13 (2):105-122.

2004 "The Denial of Citizenship: 'Barbaric' Buenos Aires and the Middle-Class Imaginary", in City and Society, 2004, 16(1): 69-97.

"She looks at him with the eyes of a camera: female visual pleasures and the polemic with fetishism in Sally Potter's Tango Lesson" in Third Text: Critical Perspectives in Contemporary Art and Culture, 18(5): 461 - 474

2003 "A Color for the Modern Nation: The Discourse on Education, Class, and Race in the Porteño Opposition to Neoliberalism", in Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Vol. 8(1):148-171.

2003 "A Stroll Through la Boca: The Politics and Poetics of Spatial Experience in a Buenos Aires Neighborhood," Space and Culture, 6(4):356-376.

2002 "Ruining the President's Spectacle: Theatricality and Telepolitics in the Buenos Aires' Public Sphere," in Journal of Visual Culture, Vol.1(3):303-323.

2002 "Spectacles of Modernity: Transnational Imagination and Local Hegemonies in Neoliberal Buenos Aires," in Cultural Anthropology, Vol.17(2):181-209.