Bret Gustafson
  Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology

Washington University in St. Louis
gustafson@wustl.edu
314-935-8630
RESEARCH

BOOKS

Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Territory, and Indigeneity in a Plurinational State (with Nicole Fabricant, SAR Press, 2011)

New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia (Duke 2009)

Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America (with Mabel Moraña, Iberoamericana/Vervuert 2010)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2013  "Amid Gas, Where is the Revolution?"  NACLA Report on the Americas. Issue on Climate Debt. 46(1): 61-66.

2013    Commentary, Inter-American Dialogue Energy Advisor, “Are Labor Conflicts in the Region’s Energy Sector on the Rise?”  March 24-29, Pp. 1,4.

in press (w. F. Jullqa and A. Jiménez) “The Politics and Policy of Language Revitalization in Latin America and the Caribbean.” In Teresa McCarty and Serafin Coronel-Molina, eds. Language Revitalization in Latin America and the Caribbean.

in press      “Intercultural Bilingual Education in the Andes: Political Change, New Challenges, and Future Directions.” 

2012 “Fossil Knowledge Networks: Industry Strategy, Public Culture, and the Challenge for Critical Research.  In Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas. Edited by J.A. McNeish and O. Logan. London: Pluto.


COURSES

CV

CURRENT & MISC

2013, Opening remarks, Mellon Seniors Farewell Dinner "Scholars in the World: Beyond the Ivory Tower" Washington University in St. Louis.  Excerpts reprinted in St Louis American, May 8: "What knowledge is good for?"

2013, April.  Presenting "Emerging Geopolitics of Gas in Bolivia and Brazil" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles.

2013, April. Guest Speaker, UCLA Seventh Annual Mellon Conference,  "Shifting Scales of Transnationalism"

2012    December, comments in International Business Times, “Deadly Ethanol: Brazil’s Sugarcane Farms Take Toll on Indigenous People.” Ryan Villareal, December 8. http://www.ibtimes.com/deadly-ethanol-brazils-sugarcane-farms-take-toll-indigenous-people-912116.