Writing
This is my space for writing and publishing. It brings together research, working papers, essays and notes on anthropology, institutions, security, technology and foresight.
Some texts arise from ethnographic work; others from the study of public policy, documents, data or political and technological change. Each addresses a specific question and develops an argument that can be read and discussed on its own.
Works are published with information on their nature, date and version. Where applicable, they are available as PDFs to download, keep and cite.
«El giro ontológico: Una exposición antropológica» is available only in Spanish. Read the original
«Alienación sensorial y fragmentación del trabajo en la industria cannábica: un análisis etnográfico de los riesgos psicosociales en Estados Unidos» is available only in Spanish. Read the original
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Oct 2026
Entre humanos y plantas: rituales, conocimiento y reciprocidad en el cultivo hogareño de cannabis
An ethnography of care, the senses and shared learning in home cannabis cultivation in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
Human–plant relations · Cannabis — In Spanish
Oct 2026
How Many Doses Are in a Kilogram of Drugs?
Why the same drug seizure can produce very different figures — and what we need to know before comparing them
Kilograms are measured; doses are estimated. How the same seizure of cannabis, cocaine or MDMA gives different figures depending on the unit chosen, with a calculator.
Security & organised crime · Research methods · Regulation & public policy
Oct 2026
Índice de cosecha en Cannabis sativa: formulación cuantitativa y análisis de factores de cultivo
Definitions, conversion between fresh and dry mass, and the requirements of a comparable experimental design for the harvest index of Cannabis sativa.
Research methods · Cannabis — In Spanish
Oct 2026
Plan Bandera: respuesta estatal al crimen organizado híbrido en Rosario, Argentina
State coordination, descriptive results and the limits of evaluation in the federal intervention against criminal networks in Rosario, Argentina.
Security & organised crime · State institutions — In Spanish
Sept 2026
Del simbolismo a la indexación: leer la hoja de Cannabis sativa
Una nota conceptual sobre percepción, signo y aprendizaje en el cultivo
How a visible change in a leaf becomes a sign for the grower: a reading of Peirce and Kohn on perception, interpretation and learning.
Human–plant relations · Anthropological theory · Cannabis — In Spanish
Aug 2026
Agencia vegetal y percepción sensorial
Aprender a percibir como ampliación de la atención antropológica
How the sensory learning involved in growing cannabis widens anthropological attention to plant life, without attributing human intentions or senses to plants.
Human–plant relations · Anthropological theory · Cannabis — In Spanish
Jul 2026
De la agencia y otras hierbas: el rol de la planta de Cannabis sativa
Presencia material y relaciones en una exposición cannábica
What the material, public presence of the plant does at a cannabis exhibition, and how it takes part in relations between people, practices and objects.
Human–plant relations · Anthropological theory · Cannabis — In Spanish
1 Jul 2026
El giro ontológico: Una exposición antropológica
Reseña colectiva de El giro ontológico. Una exposición antropológica, de Martin Holbraad y Morten Axel Pedersen.
Anthropological theory — In Spanish
Jun 2026
Estigma, prohibición y agencia: cannabis en Estados Unidos
Cómo se construyó la frontera entre establecidos y marginados en la primera mitad del siglo XX
How the stigma attached to cannabis was built in the United States, and the agency of those who promoted it and those who bore it: a historical and anthropological essay.
History · Regulation & public policy · Cannabis — In Spanish
2010–2011
Public Security and Citizen Safety Index in Latin America
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
Comparative research on public security and citizen safety in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, examining patterns of violence, institutional capacities and state responses.
Security & organised crime · Latin American politics
2011
The Transition of Chile and Paraguay
Time as a Factor in Pacted Reform
A comparative analysis of democratic transitions in Chile and Paraguay, focusing on time, sequencing and political agreement as factors in pacted institutional reform.
Latin American politics · State institutions
In progress
Alienación sensorial y fragmentación del trabajo en la industria cannábica: un análisis etnográfico de los riesgos psicosociales en Estados Unidos
Cómo la organización industrial redistribuye el conocimiento sensorial a lo largo del proceso de producción cannábica.
Work · Human–plant relations · Cannabis — In Spanish
In progress
Inteligencia Artificial y Crimen Organizado
Amenazas Emergentes y Estrategias Estatales de Respuesta
How artificial intelligence expands the capabilities of transnational organised crime, and which responses states can develop, with emphasis on the Argentine case.
Strategic foresight · Security & organised crime · State institutions — In Spanish
n.d.
Los tuyos y los míos
Trabajo conjunto de la Fuerza Armada salvadoreña y la Policía Nacional Civil entre los años 2000 y 2010
Examines the joint work of El Salvador’s Armed Forces and National Civil Police between 2000 and 2010, with attention to the institutional arrangements through which military and police roles were coordinated.
Security & organised crime · State institutions · Latin American politics — In Spanish
In progress
The industrial assumption of cannabis regulation: bureaucracy, care and cultivation in Argentina
How an inclusive regulatory framework can rely on verification instruments calibrated to an imagined, firm-shaped producer.
Regulation & public policy · State institutions · Cannabis
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