Fernando Leiva
Received his PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1998) and is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UCSC.
His current research follows two main lines. First, emerging strategies multinational extractivist corporations currently deploy to overcome community resistance, with a focus mostly on Chile’s Atacama region. He is working on a book, tentatively titled, Embedding Extractivism: Political Technologies and Community Resistance in Chile, under contract with Routledge’s Critical Development Studies series. His second line of research involves the study of economic elites in the Americas and the political economy of Latin American capitalism.
