Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón
Template:Spanish name Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón (16 January 1954, Salta) is an Argentine sociologist and anthropologist. She earned a bachelor's degree in social work from the Catholic University of Salta, and a master's degree in development sociology from the National University of Cordoba. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Seville in Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Biography
Alvarez Leguizamón is known for her work on poverty. She specializes in issues of urban anthropology at the regional level, working in academic and scientific activities, as an associate professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the National University of Salta where she has also served as Director of the Masters Programme in Social Policy.[1]
Her research include topics on Argentina's social policies and history; history of the production processes of poverty and development in Latin America; as well as analysis of human development in the biopolitics debate as part of the neoliberal governmental construction and production of inequality and poverty. She has served as chief researcher in various projects such as CIUNSa, CONICET, AECI, and UNESCO.[1]
Selected works
Among her publications are:[2]
- Trabajo y producción de la pobreza en Latinoamérica y el Caribe: estructuras, discursos y actores (2005)
- Pobreza y desarrollo en América Latina. El caso de Argentina (2008)
- La producción de la pobreza masiva y su persistencia en el pensamiento social latinoamericano en Cimadamore y Cattani (CLACSO Co ediciones, Siglo del Hombre Editores)
- La transformación de las instituciones de reciprocidad y control, del don al capital social y de la "biopolítica" a la "focopolítica” (2002)
- Focopolitica y gubernamentalidad neoliberal, las políticas sociales en Bertololotto y Lastra “Políticas públicas y pobreza en el escenario post 2002” (2008)
- Neoliberal and Neo-Colonial Governmentality, social policies and Strategies against poverty (from the North,), alternatives from the South (The case of South America and the Caribbean) en prensa en Puyana & Samwel “Strategies Against Poverty: Designs from the North and Alternatives from the South”
- Biopolíticas neoliberales y focopolítica en América Latina, los programas de transferencia condicionadas en prensa en Barba
References
- ^ a b "Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón". Comparative Research Programme on Poverty. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ "Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón". portaldesalta.gov.ar (in Spanish). Portal Informativo de Salta Rep. Argentina. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
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