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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. 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). She has also published a novel, Los reinos perdidos (Lost Kingdoms) (2005).

Dr Svampa will publish "Balance y Perspectivas: Política e intelectuales en el primer gobierno de Evo Morales", with Pablo Stefanoni and Bruno Bornillo, in Argentina and Bolivia. She will publish also a book of the interviews "Certezas, Incertezas y Desmesuras de un pensamiento político. Conversaciones con Floreal Ferrara".