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My personal blog, reflections, and recent writing including a year long series, “Notes to Pandemic”.

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(2016/2022) “Beyond Political Realism: Rethinking Social Movement Ontologies and the Micropolitical” Unpublished essay, originally for Tahrir Moment Edited Volume

(2014) “Social Movements” in Companion to Urban Anthropology, Donald Nonini, ed. Wiley Blackwell Publishing, 470-484.

(2013) “Rethinking Public Anthropology through epistemic politics and theoretical practice” Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 28, Issue 4: 598-620.

(2010) In search of movement: Italy’s movimento dei movimenti, theoretical-practice and re-making the political. Doctoral dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill, book prospectus forthcoming.

(2009) Escobar, Arturo and Michal Osterweil. “Social Movements and the Politics of the Virtual Deleuzian Strategies” in Casper Bruun Jensen and Kjetil Rödje, eds. Deleuzian Intersections in Science, Technology and Anthropology. pp. 187-217. Oxford: Berghan

(2008) Maribel Casas Cortes, Michal Osterweil and Dana Powell, "Blurring Boundaries: Recognizing Knowledge Practices in the study of Social Movements." Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 81, No 1: 41-82.

(2008) “A Different (Kind of) Politics is Possible: Conflict and Problem(s) at the USSF” in Judith Blau and Marina Karides (eds), The World and US Social Forums: A Better World is Possible and Necessary. Leiden: Brill, pp 71-89.

(2005) “Place-Based Globalism: Theorizing the global justice movement” Development 48.2, pp 23-28. June, 2005.

(2004) “De-centering the Forum: Is Another Critique of the Forum Possible?” in Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar, and Peter Waterman (eds), World Social Forum: Challenging Empires, New Delhi: Viveka Foundation, (pp 183-190). Also in translation, published Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag; Malaga, Spain, El Viejo Topo.

(2004) “A cultural-political approach to reinventing the political” International Social Science Journal, Special Issue: Explosions in Open Space: The World Social Forum and cultures of politics. Vol. 56, No. 182, pp 495-506, December 2004. In Spanish, Chinese and Russian versions.