VioDemos Associate Researcher. Associate Professor at the School of Anthropology of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, principal investigator of the Centro de Estudios Interculturales e Indígenas CIIR and co-investigator of the Fondecyt project “After Harm: Interdisciplinary explorations of reparation initiatives in post dictatorship Chile” (2023-2026).

Anthropologist from the University of California and PhD in Anthropology from University College London.

He researches on the material and ideological aspects of reparation; the historical relationship between settler colonialism and conservation in border areas of southern Chile; transformative processes activated by public policies of micro-entrepreneurship in Santiago and north-central Chile; localism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in contemporary trajectories of labor reactivation and agricultural entrepreneurship in south-central Italy.

He is the author of the book Sentient lands: indigeneity, property and political imagination in neoliberal Chile (University of Arizona Press, 2018) and Tierras ancestrales, disputas contemporáneas: Pertenencia y demandas territoriales en la sociedad mapuche rural (Ediciones UC, 2012).