Andres Gomez Seguel
Visiting Scholar Summer 2005
Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS)

Area of Expertise: Anthropology, political sociology, complex systems, collective identity.

Country of Expertise: Chile, Spain and Basque Country

Current Research Project: The aim of this thesis is to explore the emergency of cultural subjects and fields in which the tension between politics and culture is objectified as social political conflict. The case is studied using as main resource the Chilean political system between 1994 and 2003, through a qualitative research of the press and the study of specific conflicts. The specific goal is to analyse the transformations of the political system and their capacity to include new social and cultural dimensions.

Project Title: Administration of the Cultural Diversity and Transformation of the Political System in Chile

Academic Background: Andres is currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of the Basque Sociology. He is a researcher for Collective Identity Research Centre (CEIC0) at the University of the Basque Country and also teaches in the Department of Anthropology (University of Chile). He has been chercheur visitant at the Institut Des Hautes Études De L'Amérique Latine IHEAL at Sorbonne Nouvelle University-PARIS III (Paris 2004).

Selected Publications:

• In press. Coordinator of 38 volume of INGURUAK Journal: Análisis de la complejidad social: horizontes posibles. Bilbao: Basque Association of Sociology.
• In press "Identity in the postmodern Bilbao: Emergence of sociality in the San Francisco district" in Basque Sociology: Society, Identity and Politics, Reno: Nevada University Press.
• In press "Complexité social-politique dans la production de référents culturels" in Journées d´études De l´ethnique au national: Politiques, traditions et territoires. París : Laboratoire de Déclassement Comparé et l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
• 2005 "De símbolos y hackers: guías en la sociedad del conocimiento" in Liminar. Estudios sociales y humanísticos. Centro de estudios superiores de México y Centroamérica, Año 3 Vol III Nº 1 Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas.
• 2004 Review about "Robert Aunger: El meme eléctrico" in Journal of Social Anthropology ANKULEGI, 8, Donostia: Basque Association of Anthropology.
• 2003 "Despliegues de lo político" in RICHARD, N. Movimientos de campo: En torno a cuatro fronteras de la antropología en Chile, Guatemala-France: ICAPI-EHESS.
• 2002 "El cambio como dispositivo de complejidad" in Papeles del CEIC., 4. http://www.ehu.es/CEIC/PAPELES/4.PDF