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Helene Risor

Helene Risor

Senior Researcher VioDemos. Associate Professor at the School of Anthropology of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Copenhagen. Principal researcher at the Fondecyt project “After Harm: Interdisciplinary explorations of reparation initiatives in post dictatorship Chile” (2023-2026) and coordinator of the Latin American Social School on Social Issues LASI.

Anthropologist from Universidad Bolivariana, MA in Anthropology and PhD in social anthropology from the University of Copenhagen. 

She has researched issues of political subjectivity as well as local and global scale practices of citizenship and state formation in Latin America.  She is currently investigating the role and social life of state reparations in the context of democratic state formation in Chile.

She was one of the editors of the book Tecnología en los márgenes: Antropología, mundos materiales y técnicas en América Latina (with Di Giminiani, Piergiorgio; González Varela, Sergio and Murray Marjorie, 2014) by Bonilla Artiga Editores.

  • Linea de investigación

    Criminal Violence and Urban Insecurity, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence

  • Contacto

    hrisor@uc.cl

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