The New War on the Poor: The Production of Insecurity in Latin America

John Gledhill is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, and a fellow of the British Academy and UK Academy of Social Sciences. He was chair of the UK Association of Social Anthropologists from 2005 to 2009, has served on the executive committees of the World Council of Anthropological Associations and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and is co-managing editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology. He is the author of Casi Nada: Agrarian Reform in the Homeland of Cardenismo; Neoliberalism, Transnationalization and Rural Poverty; Power and Its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics; and Cultura y Desafío en Ostula: Cuatro Siglos de Autonomía Indígena en la Costa-Sierra Nahua de Michoacán; and editor of State and Society (with B. Bender and M. T. Larsen), and New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico (with P. Schell).