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Mario Blaser
Mario Blaser is a professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Originally from Argentina, he has made the city of St. John’s (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), his home where he lives with his two children and his partner. An anthropologist by training and undisciplined by vocation, he has worked with the Yshiro nation of Paraguay since his undergraduate studies days and with the Innu Nation of Labrador since 2009, although as of late, he has started to work closer to home in the city of St. John’s with local initiatives that might strengthen what he calls infrastructures of emplacement, his most recent obsession. He is the author of Storytelling Globalization from the Paraguayan Chaco and Beyond (Duke University Press, 2010) and co-editor of A world of Many World (Duke University Press 2018); Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy: Insights for the Global Age (University of British Columbia Press, 2010) and In the Way of Development: Indigenous peoples, Life Projects and Globalization (Zed Books 2004). His upcoming book For Emplacement: An Essay of Political Ontology examines the challenges of articulating heterogeneous life projects under the shadow of the Anthropocene.