Carlota McAllister, York University

Research

Chile Latin America political anthropology posthumanism environmental justice sovereignty subalternity rivers

Latest funding

A Riparian Mode of Politics: Environmental Struggles and Watery Sovereignties in Post-Uprising Chile
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$56,507
Cross-Cultural Learning and Shifting Identities: Research Training for a Transnational World
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$20,000
Critical pan-americanisms: solidarities, resistances, territories
SSHRC · 2014 · Co-investigator
$23,580

A Riparian Mode of Politics: Environmental Struggles and Watery Sovereignties in Post-Uprising Chile

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McAllister, Carlota P.

Keywords: political anthropology; posthumanism; environmental justice; sovereignty; subalternity; rivers; water; Chile; Latin America

$56,507

Cross-Cultural Learning and Shifting Identities: Research Training for a Transnational World

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Grants

Keywords: cross-cultural learning; identity; globalization; transnationalism; latin american studies; european studies; russia/eurasian studies; african studies; student exchange; international placements; research methods; mentorship; knowledge mobilization

$20,000

Critical pan-americanisms: solidarities, resistances, territories

Co-investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: Rojas, Cristina

Keywords: workshop; history; internment; national security; wartime; WWII; WWI; Cold War; ethnicity; redress

$23,580

Vernacular enclosures: violence and property-making in a dam conflict in Chilean Patagonia

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McAllister, Carlota

Keywords: resource conflict; violence; property-making; capitalism; resource extraction; state formation; environmental politics; Agrarian politics; land tenure; the frontier; hydroelectric dams; Chile; Patagonia; Latin America; South America

$122,508

Alterity within capitalism: making property and appropriating nature in a dam conflict in Chilean Patagonia

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: McAllister, Carlota P.

Keywords: environmental conflict; dams; property; market economies; peasants; conservation; development; neoliberalism; state formation; water; energy; nature

$38,509

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Chile Dear Professor McAllister, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on chile connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "A Riparian Mode of Politics: Environmental Struggles and Watery Sovereignties in Post-Uprising Chile" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]