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I have been interested in Latin American political and social history since I have memory. As a historian, I directed this interest towards the study of “populism” a political identity often associated with the region’s modern history. Two of my books explore the history of populism. tells the story of the “worker attachés,” labor activists appointed by Argentine president Juan Perón since 1946 in all embassies with the mission of spreading the gospel of Peronism worldwide. It’s a social and political history that delves into how populism challenged the postwar status quo, and with the limitations of those challenges. In , I study “the other side of the story”: the basic tropes of antipopulist rhetoric in Argentine history.  

While I was at it, I kept finding a persistent reliance of antipopulist discourses on animal metaphors in order to deride popular subjects and their behavior. “Animals,” "beasts” “pack of wolves,” “lambs”, “monkeys”. This realization turned my attention to the animal world and how we perceive it and interpret it, which is been my interest for the last decade, within the larger field of environmental humanities and multispecies history of capitalism.

The immediate materialization of this interest is , a project funded by the Research Council of Norway focused on a interdisciplinary history of salmon farming in Chile from a transnational perspective and a particular focus on the role of Norway. I’ll be in charge of the project until 2029, working with biologists, philosophers, filmmakers, activists and journalists across the globe. 

If I were to choose, I would rather just write. Partly because of that, I have published articles and essays related to my research interests in several different journals, newspapers and magazines throughout the years (see list of publications). Some other times I am the object of other colleague’s essays, as in this comprehensive piece on . And on a few occasions, I reluctantly dabble into podcasts, radio and streaming programs, talking about , or .

At the Spanish section of the Department of Foreign Languages, I teach Latin American history for all levels of undergraduate and master students. Occasionally, I collaborate with some of our wonderful colleagues in the humanities; from a class about the Haitian Revolution in Professor Sara Hamilton’s history course, to a history of oil and petrocultures as part of Tina Paphitis’ Introduction to Environmental Humanities.

But the most successful class I have taught so far is our SPLA 109, “A History of Latin America Through Food.” That we ate Latin American-related food every week and managed to visit stores with some of the best regional food in Bergen was just part of the appeal, though !

Academic and Essay Books

Fiction

Selected chapters, articles

“Populismo y Propiedad Privada: El Genoma de la Guerra Fría en América Latina” in Martín Plot (ed.), Destino Sudamericano. Ideas e Imágenes Políticas del Segundo Siglo Argentino y Americano. Buenos Aires: Editorial Universidad de Belgrano, 2010, pp. 153-176

“Neither/Nor. Mapping Latin American's Response to Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism” (with Martín Plot) Constellations, 14, no. 3 (2007): 86-111

“Political Dimensions of the Crisis” in Michael Cohen and Margarita Gutman (eds.), Argentina in Collapse. The Americas Debate. New York: The New School, 2002

Selected Interviews and dissemination articles:

"Los Juguetes no son tuyos," in Jordana Blejmar, Silvana Mandolessi and Mariana Eva Perez, eds. El Pasado Inasequible. Desaparecidos, hijos y combatientes en el arte y la literatura del nuevo milenio. Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, June 2018.

“The Cost of Orthodoxy” (with Mark Healey) American Prospect 13, supplement (Feb 2002)

Selected Reviews

Other Selected Writing

In 2025 I obtained a FRIPRO grant from the Research Council of Norway to lead DARKLAX. The Dark Side of Sustainability: Norway and the Rise and Fall of Salmon Farming in Chile. A Transnational History of the Future (1970-2030). We will be working on this until 2029, and you can read more about it