I’m an assistant professor in Anthropology at the University of Oslo and co-founder of Kaleidos-Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography at the University of Cuenca -Ecuador, where I am a visiting professor.
I work across economic, political and medical anthropology exploring the contradictions faced by people who migrate to improve their living conditions but find themselves constantly underemployed, over-indebted and striving to be part of an increasingly ephemeral global middle class. I’m currently working on my book manuscript, an ethnographic account of predatory financial inclusion of Ecuadorian migrants in Spain and their political engagement to face over-indebtedness.
I’m also involved in various collaborative research projects on different themes including: the production of knowledge around mental health, transnational pandemic responses, nutrition practices among elderly adults, and the potential for digital collaborative platforms and critical pedagogical experimentations.
Maka Suarez, 2 December 2022, "Maka Suarez", contributed by Maka Suarez, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 1 December 2022, accessed 24 November 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/maka-suarez
Critical Commentary
This collaboration bio is updated as of December 1st, 2022. I created this artifact to share with fellow participants in advance of the "Open STS Data: Opportunities for Pedagogy, Reuse, Re-interpretation" workshop organized for 4S meeting in Cholula in December 2022.
The full essay of collaboration bios can be found here.