Emanuela Guano

Assistant 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:

"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.

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