Research & Analysis
My work combines academic research and applied analysis, with particular attention to the relationships between social practices, institutions, regulations and technologies.
Anthropology has a central place in my current research. My professional experience in security and public policy provides another perspective: the study of institutional problems, state decisions and the conditions in which they are implemented.
To these lines I add strategic foresight, in order to examine emerging transformations and possible future scenarios.
Topics and methods vary according to the object of study. I want each piece of research to retain its specificity, without losing sight of the relationships that make it intelligible in a wider context.
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Anthropology & Multispecies Studies
My doctoral research at the National University of San Martín examines the relationships between people and cannabis plants in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
From an ethnographic and multispecies perspective, I analyse cultivation practices, the knowledge developed by growers and the relationships of care built in domestic and collective settings.
I am particularly interested in the techniques, technological devices and material conditions involved in these relationships. I also study how health and administrative regulations classify certain practices, and what happens when concrete experiences do not match regulatory categories.
Cannabis is my main current field of research and a starting point for studying broader questions about plants, work, materiality and forms of coexistence between species.
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Institutions, Security & Public Policy
Since 2012 I have carried out my professional work in Argentine public security, working on policy analysis, organised crime, drug trafficking, transnational threats and institutional cooperation.
This experience is the basis of a second line of research focused on how the state operates, institutional capacities and public responses to security problems.
My interests include transformations in illicit markets, coordination between agencies, instruments of state intervention and the use of information in decision-making.
I also examine how technologies change criminal activities and the resources available to investigate, prevent and regulate them, particularly in Latin America.
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Strategic Foresight & Emerging Technologies
Strategic foresight adds a temporal dimension to the analysis of public problems: how they might evolve, which trends are worth monitoring and which present decisions shape future alternatives.
I am particularly interested in scenarios involving artificial intelligence, new technologies, transnational threats and transformations in state capabilities.
My approach combines the analysis of trends, uncertainties and scenarios with the institutional knowledge gained through professional practice.
Rather than trying to predict events, foresight makes it possible to examine plausible futures, identify assumptions and widen the alternatives available for planning and decision-making.
From research to writing
These lines are developed through works of different kinds: academic research, working papers, essays, public policy studies and strategic analyses.
The Writing section brings these materials together and makes it possible to follow their development, consult their sources and access the available versions.