Member Profiles

Natalia is currently visiting fellow in the department of Anthropology at the
London School of Economics, and has been recently awarded a Leverhulme Early Career
Fellowship, to be held at ODID (International Development, Oxford), from January 2021. Natalia’s research explores political subjectivities in indigenous South America, specifically how broader political and economic forms interweave with moral selfhood, sociality and religion in daily life. She has carried out research on forms of livelihood, work, and leadership outside of the influence of market and state institutions; on relations between indigenous social movements, missionaries, and the state; vernacular democracy; formal and informal education and childhood. She is a regional specialist of Latin America, with particular focus on Greater Amazonia. Her new research project,
entitled ‘Indigenous Sovereignties: A Study of Political Plurality' explores the politics of indigenous movements in the Ecuadorian Amazon, between grassroots initiatives, political parties, and international NGOs.