Veronica Perera
Assistant Professor of Sociology
School of Natural and Social Sciences
Robert O. Fehr Professorship (2010-2011)

Office: Social Sciences bldg, Room 1015
Phone: (914) 251-6604
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
Social Movements, Water Struggles, Globalization, Neo-liberalism, Latin America

Research interests
Global and local social movements challenging neo-liberal globalization; struggles for the right to water; biography, body and activism

Selected honors and awards
2010-2011 Robert O. Fehr Professorship, Purchase College
The Albert Solomon Memorial Award in Sociology, New School for Social Research, January 2008

Selected publications
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.

Conferences
“From Cochabamba to Colombia: Traveling Activist Repertoires in Water Struggles”, XXIX Latin American Studies Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 6-9, 2010

“Traveling Repertoires and Expanding Water Struggles in Latin America”, The Right to Water Conference, Maxwell School of Public Policy and Citizenship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, March 29-30, 2010

“What Happens When We Go Global? (Mis)Understandings among Water Activists at the World Social Forum, International Studies Association-Northeast Annual Conference, Baltimore, October 2-3, 2009

“Neither Local nor Global: Multi-scale Politics in the Struggle for the Right to Water”, The 20th Annual Stony Brook Manhattan Graduate Conference, “Sifting Through Lies: Toward an Aesthetic Impunity”, February 15-16, 2008

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