Associate Professor of Anthropology Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Principal researcher at the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy
Angel Aedo has tackled critical issues including the policing of troubled families; subjectivation and counter-conduct within populations affected by state security initiatives; carcerality and containment of dangerous classes; bordering and politics of presence in migrant settlements; and the co-production of event and critical attitude through performative acts.
His ongoing research delves into the complex relationship between structural and political violence within impoverished populations treated as prone to illicit behaviour. Concurrently, his work has focused on recognising emerging forms of everyday resistance that enable alternative –and occasionally critical– communing urban practices.
Aedo’s work has been featured in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, spanning a diverse range such as Anthropological Theory, Security Dialogue, Critique of Anthropology, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, Anthropological Forum, Journal of Material Culture, Journal des Anthropologues, Antípoda, and Revista de Estudios Sociales.He authored La Dimensión más Oscura de la Existencia: Indagaciones en Torno al Kieri de los Huicholes (Universidad Autónoma de México, 2011); Experts et Technologies de Gouvernement: Une Généalogie des Think Tanks au Chili (Presses Académiques Francophones, 2012); and he co-authored alongside Sol Díaz De Ida y Vuelta: Una historia sobre la libertad (Cocorocoq Editoras, 2023).
Dr. Angel Aedo will guide the Managing the Undesirables: Rethinking Carceral and Border Work workshop together with Julienne Weegels Latin American Studies at CEDLA University of Amsterdam.
