I am a Canadian-Argentinian scholar, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at UBC, a Vanier Scholar 2025 and a Friedman Scholar in Health. I hold the degrees of Master of Arts in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Professor of Higher and Middle Education in Anthropological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and an Honour Diploma from that same institution (UBA). Before coming to UBC to do my Master’s with a SSHRC scholarship, I was a professor in the Common Basic Cycle at the University of Buenos Aires (CBC-UBA). My PhD research draws from my Master’s research and fieldwork experience among anti-fumigations activists in Argentina, and from my own engagement with social justice activism for over fifteen years.

My PhD research analyzes the experience of rural residents from Santa Fe, Argentina, whose livelihoods and health have been negatively affected by agrichemical fumigations. Focusing on the intersection between environmental activism and public health from an ethnographic perspective, I look at the lived and embodied experiences of the communities exposed to agrichemicals, the most prevalent being glyphosate in the context of soybean industrial farming. The meaning-making practices informed by the bodily engagement of these rural residents are in constant tension with state narratives on the impact of the agribusiness model in the Argentinian economy and, most importantly, of the agrichemicals spraying on the rural inhabitants’ health. Some of the questions I ask are: How do these communities understand their own corporeal experiences of exposure? How do these experiences inform local forms of anti-agribusiness activism? How do different stakeholders narrate and create meaning?