Veronica Perera
Assistant Professor of Sociology
School of Natural and Social Sciences

Office: Social Sciences bldg, Room 1015
Phone:
Fax: (914) 251-6603
Email: maria.perera@purchase.edu

Education
Ph.D. Sociology, 2008, New School for Social Research
M.A. Sociology, 2002, New School for Social Research
M.A. Economic Sociology, 1999, University of San Martin, Buenos Aires
BA. Sociology, 1993, del Salvador University, Buenos Aires

Positions held
2003-2008: Part time Faculty Member, New School for General Studies
2008: Research Consultant, Information and Communications Technologies and Citizenship, United Nations Development Programme

Areas of expertise
Globalization, Social Movements, Neo-liberalism, Latin America, Feminist Politics

Research interests
Global and local social movements challenging neo-liberal globalization; struggles against water privatization; biographies/emotions/the body and social movements; political ethnography

Courses taught
Latin America in Context: Globalizations from Above and from Below
Globalization through the Lenses of Gender
Social Movements: Theories and Practices
Identity and Social Theory
Classical Social Theory

Selected honors and awards
The Albert Solomon Memorial Award in Sociology, New School for Social Research, January 2008

Selected publications
Forthcoming: “Neither Local nor Global: Multi-scale Politics in the Struggle for the Right to Water”, Stony Brook Manhattan Graduate Conference Journal.

2006: “Neo-liberalism as Pensamiento Unico – How did it Happen?” Janey Program, New School for Social Research, full-text

2003: “Globalization from Below and New Political Identities: The Case of the World Social Forum” Journal of Economic and Social Research 4 (2), 73-93.

2001: “Globalization and Gender: Reflections on the Political Economy of the Feminization of Paid Workforce in Argentina”, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies Working Papers. Issue No: 2: 8.

Presentations
2006: “From Pyramids to Networks: World Social Forum as Personal Search and Collective Mutations of the Left”, Cornell’s Third Latin American Studies Graduate Student Conference, February 24th-25th, Cornell University

2005: “Neo-liberalism in Latin America –how did it happen?”, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Graduate Student Conference, April 8-9th, Princeton University

2003: “Um outro mundo é possibel. Notes on the 2003 World Social Forum and Globalization from Below”, Graduate Student Conference on 20th Century Latin America, Columbia University, March 1st

2000: “Prácticas de organización del trabajo y divisiones sexuales en la industria conservera del tomate en Cuyo”, III Congreso Latinoamericano de Sociolog*a del Trabajo, Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociolog*a del Trabajo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mayo 2000

Graduate Seminar in Argentina
2008: “Foro Social Mundial: Que tuvo de nuevo? Teor*as y Prácticas de los Movimientos Sociales a principios del siglo XXI” (World Social Forum: What was New About it? Theories and Practices of Social Movements at the beginning of the 21st Century), National University of Cordoba; National University of Cuyo