Ángel Aedo

Angel Aedo is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research interests include: forms of life at the edges of the state; politics of voice; urban anthropology; culture of expertise; (up)rooting and collective attachments in contexts of social abandonment. He is the author of Experts et technologies de gouvernement. Une généalogie des think tanks au Chili (Presses académiques francophones 2012) and La dimensión más oscura de la existencia. Indagaciones en torno al Kieri de los huicholes (UNAM 2011). His current project focuses on the experiences of immigrants living in squatter settlements and shelters in northern Chile, exploring how these experiences at the edges, where social boundaries and territorial borders are entangled, have the potential to become pivotal.