Pablo Seward Delaporte, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Education
Ph.D. in Anthropology, Stanford University
M.A. in Anthropology, Stanford University
B.A. in Anthropology and Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
A critical medical and psychological anthropologist, my research interests lie in
migration, race, and ethnicity; urban precarity and vulnerability; experience, subjectivity,
and phenomenology; violence, risk, and care; theories on space and place; feminism;
and decoloniality in Latin America. Drawing from ethnography, archival research, and
community-based methods, I integrate anthropological, decolonial, and feminist theories
of racialization and embodiment with ecological approaches to health, inequality,
and care. My current book project, Precarious Becomings: The Politics of Migrant Life
in Chile, explores how migrant women in Chile鈥檚 northern border city of Antofagasta
make uninhabitable spaces livable and how, in this process, their lives become entangled
with dangerous environments. I argue that the 鈥渆cologies of care鈥� that result from
this spatial transformation are in tension with state projects that allegedly protect
鈥渧ulnerable鈥� migrant populations by demolishing environments where poverty, crime,
and risk take place.
Professional Web Site:
Publications and Media Placements
Forthcoming. 鈥溾�楲ife Started Hitting Her Like This, This, This鈥�: Vulnerability, Relationality,
and the Making of Hard Corporeal Selves.鈥� Ethos.
2023. 鈥淟a primera ciudad latinoamericana: Hero铆smo en las luchas descoloniales de
mujeres migrantes en Chile鈥� [鈥淭he First Latin American City: Heroism in the Decolonial
Struggles of Migrant Women in Chile.鈥漖 In Las fracturas del m谩rmol: Heroicidades a contrapelo. M贸nica Gonz谩lez Garc铆a, Sarah Moody, and Astrid Santana Fern谩ndez de Castro, eds.
Ciudad Auto虂noma de Buenos Aires: CLACSO; La Habana: Editorial UH.
2023. 鈥淟a ciudadan铆a desde el campamento migrante: neoliberalismo, racializaci贸n e
indigenidad en Antofagasta, Chile鈥� [鈥淐itizenship from the Migrant Campamento: Neoliberalism,
Racialization, and Indigeneity in Antofagasta, Chile.鈥漖 In Ciudadan铆as: Coexistencia y diferencia en Chile actual. Helene Ris酶r, Marjorie Murray, and Tamara Hern谩ndez, eds. Santiago, Chile: Pehu茅n
Editores.
2022. 鈥�.鈥� In Chilean Politics Today. Romina Akemi and Joshua Frens-String, eds. Special Issue, NACLA Report on the Americas.
2022. 鈥�.鈥� Interview by Rebecca Bayer, King Center on Global Development, Center News.
2020. 鈥�.鈥� Fieldsights, Society for Cultural Anthropology.
2017. 鈥溾��.鈥� In Drugs, Politics, and Society in the Global South. Maziyar Ghiabi, ed. Special Issue, Third World Quarterly 39, no. 1: 1鈥�16.
Honors and Awards
- Postdoctoral Research Associate Fellowship, Brown University, Population Studies and Training Center (2023)
- Society for Psychological Anthropology Condon Prize for Best Student Essay (2023)
- Stanford University, Centennial Teaching Assistant Award (2021)
- Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2018)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2016)