European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE)

Post-Doc, PhD in Social and Political Thought

Other Affiliations: York University, Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought
York University, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC)

Visiting Post-Doctoral Researcher, EURICSE

Thesis Title: Doctoral dissertation: "Taking Destiny into Their Own Hands: Autogestión and Cooperation in Argentina's Worker-Recuperated Enterprises"

About

I am a social science researcher, teacher, and PhD (ABD) in the Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto, Canada. My recently completed dissertation is entitled "Taking Destiny into Their Own Hands: Autogestión and Cooperation in Argentina’s Worker-Recuperated Enterprises." I am also a Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean and the International Secretariate for Human Development (both also at York University), an adjunct member of the Applied Communication Laboratory (ACTLab) at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication, a co-organizer and member of the Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry, and serve on the board of the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation. Son of Italian immigrants, I was born in Quilmes, Argentina, grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and currently call Toronto, Canada my home-base. For most of 2011, I lived in Villa de Leyva, Colombia where I was writing, researching, and enjoying life with my partner, Patricia, and son, Adrian. In late January 2012, I began a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE) at the University of Trento, Italy.

Trained in political economy, critical theory, sociological research methods, and communication studies, I have interdisciplinary scholarly interests in alternative economics, social and solidarity economy studies, the sociology of work, Marxist political economy, historical materialism, critical development studies, philosophy of technology, phenomenology, communication and media theory, and qualitative research methods. Currently, I am researching and publishing on the historical conditions, the political economic environments, and the lived experiences of the worker-recuperated enterprises of Argentina and the social and solidarity economies of Latin America. More broadly, I am interested in the prefigurative possibilities for alternative economic arrangements, as well as the socio-technological spheres within which alternative economies beyond capitalism emerge. Since 2005, I have also been actively involved in helping develop researcher and practitioner linkages between cooperative and social economy experiences in Canada and Latin America, especially between Canada and Argentina and, increasingly, Canada and Cuba.

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