Emanuela Guano
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Texas-Austin, 1999
Research Interests: Spatial Theory and Urban Processes, Public and Visual Culture, Modernity, Globalization and Transnationalism, Argentina, Italy
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 the politics of gender, class, and heritage in Genoa, Italy.
Recent publications include:
"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 (2007) pp. 48-72.
"Spectacles of Modernity: Transnational Imagination and Local Hegemonies in Neoliberal Buenos Aires," in Cultural Anthropology, 2002, Vol.17(2):181-209.
"Ruining the President's Spectacle: Theatricality and Telepolitics in the Buenos Aires' Public Sphere," in Journal of Visual Culture, 2002, Vol.1(3):303-323.
"Modernitá d'importazione: ideologia neoliberista e esperienza quotidiana nei centri commerciali di Buenos Aires," in Studi Economici e Sociali, 2002, Vol. IV (October-December), pp. 447-472.
"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, 2003, Vol. 8(1):148-171.
"A Stroll Through la Boca: The Politics and Poetics of Spatial Experience in a Buenos Aires Neighborhood," Space and Culture, 2003, 6(4):356-376.
"Esperienza dello spazio e ideologia di classe in un quartiere italiano di Buenos Aires," Quaderni del Centro Ricerche Etno-Antropologiche dell'Universit‡ di Milano-Bicocca, 2004, 1:19-46.
"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, 2004, 18(5): 461 - 474
"The Denial of Citizenship: 'Barbaric' Buenos Aires and the Middle-Class Imaginary", in City and Society, 2004, 16(1): 69-97.
“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) (2006):105-122.
