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Maristella Svampa has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and a PhD in Sociology from Paris' École d'Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Researcher at the Conicet (National Center for Scientific and Technical Research), Argentina. She works , also at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata.

Dr Svampa received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Kónex award in sociology (Argentina) in 2006.

Dr. Svampa has published and lectured in France, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and the United States. She has been a Professor invited in the UNAM (Mexico), the School of High studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, in Paris) and in Kassel's University (Germany).

Among her most recent books are Los que ganaron. La vida en los countries y barrios privados (The Winners: Life in Country-clubs and Gated Communities) (2001); Entre la ruta y el barrio. La experiencia de las organizaciones piqueteras (Between the Highway and the Neighborhood: The experience of Piqueteros Organizations) (2003); La sociedad excluyente. La Argentina bajo el signo del neoliberalismo (Exclusive society: Argentina under Neoliberalism) (2005), Cambio de época. Movimientos sociales y poder político (Change of Time: Social Movements and Political Power) (2008) and Minería Transnacional, narrativas del desarrollo y Resistencias sociales (Transnacional Mining, Narratives of Development and Social Resistance (2009); "Debatir Bolivia, Perspectivas de un proyecto de descolonización" (2010) ,with Pablo Stefanoni and Bruno Fornillo, in Argentina and Bolivia, and "Certezas, Incertezas y Desmesuras de un pensamiento político. Conversaciones con Floreal Ferrara" (2010).

She has also published a novel, Los reinos perdidos (Lost Kingdoms) (2005) et she has finished un another novel, Donde están enterrados nuestros muertos (2010), still unpublished.