Writing

Book:

HYDROPOLITICS: The Itaipu Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America (2019, Princeton University Press)

Articles & Chapters (Selected):
English

• The ITAIPU energy uproar continues on both sides of the Paraná. Global Americans. August 19. 2019
• Behind Paraguay’s secret deal and the resulting political crisis over ITAIPU. Interview with Pedro Ferreira. Global Americans. August 19, 2019
• Who Will Speak for Alabama’s Ghosts? Scalawag. May 24, 2016.
• Why the West Loves Sci-Fi and Fantasy: A Cultural Explanation. The Atlantic. June 13, 2013
• A tale of two quintessential Argentine beverages: wine and yerba mate. Slate Magazine. September 10, 2012
• Trouble on the Triple Frontier. Foreign Affairs. September 6, 2012

Spanish
• Itaipú Binacional y la Hidropolítica en el Contexto Transfronterizo. In Além do limite: a Tríplice Fronteira nas relações internacionais (forthcoming, 2020)
• La hidropolítica en Itaipú, la potencialidad de desarrollo y crecimiento. In Itaipú, causa nacional. La riqueza energética perdida del Paraguay: de cara a la revisión del 2023 (2019)

Policy Briefs & Development Reports (Selected):
• Oportunidades de Negocios y Políticas Públicas: Las Baterías de Litio. United Nations Development Programme Report, Paraguay (forthcoming, 2020)
• Itaipú Dam: Paraguay’s Growth Potential. White Paper (2018). Spanish language version: Itaipú Binacional: Paraguay Potencial. Informe de negocios (2019).
• Itaipú Post-2023: Strategic Investment for Paraguay’s Sustainable Development. Policy Report (2017)

Media Appearances (Selected):
• A Duke Anthropologist Takes on the Politics of the Itaipu Dam, on the Border of Brazil and Paraguay, Duke Global (September 24, 2019)
• A dam mess: A secret hydropower deal with Brazil causes a political crisis in Paraguay, The Economist (August 18, 2019)
• Paraguay siempre buscó la renta en Itaipú y debe buscar industrialización, Última Hora (Asunción, Paraguay, July 22, 2019)

Scholarly:
• Ciudad del Este and the Common Market: A Tale of Two Economic Integrations. In Big Water: New Histories of the Triple Frontier, 1550-2000 (2018)
• The Nature of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene: Lessons of Struggle, Otherness, & Economics from Paraguay. Current Anthropology (2016)
• The Cause of All Paraguayans? Defining and Defending Hydroelectric Sovereignty. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (2015)
• Surveillance and State Violence in Stroessner’s Paraguay: Itaipú Hydroelectric Dam, Archive of Terror. American Anthropologist (2013)
• Stimulating Consumption: Yerba Mate Myths, Markets, and Meanings from Conquest to Present. Comparative Studies in Society and History (2010)
• Fine Dining: Race in Pre-Revolution Cuban Cookbooks. Latin American Research Review (2008)