Dr. Brian S. Whitener
Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan: 2016
- Women’s Studies Certificate, University of Michigan: 2013
- M.A., University of Chicago
- B.A., New College of South Florida
Research Interests
- Latin American social and cultural theory
- Finance and financialization
- Racial formations and racialization in Mexico and Brazil
- Gender and sexuality in Latin America
Publications
Articles
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"The Politics of Infrastructure in Contemporary Mexican Writing" in Mexican Literature in Theory ed. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado. New York: Bloomsbury 2018.
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“From Racial Democracy to Credit Democracy: Finance and Public Security in Brazil,” special issue of Brasiliana edited by Paul Amar, 4(2) (2016).
http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/bras/article/view/23499/20551
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“From ‘Stabilizing Development’ to Instant Ruins: Notes on Mexican State Form,” special issue of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies on “Beyond the State: Spaces of Capital in Latin America,” 24(3) (2015): 353-370. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2015.1065799
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“‘El hombre no es libre en la naturaleza’: Justo Sierra and The Persistence of Sovereign Power,” A contracorriente 12(3) (2015): 376-397. http://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1269
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“Ontology and Crises of State and Finance in Jorge Volpi’s En busca de Klingsor,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 24(1) (2015): 47-64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2014.1002457
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“Nonrelation and Untimeliness in Ranciere’s Names of History,” Política común, 4 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/pc.12322227.0004.003
Books Edited
- with Fernando Fuentes and Lorena Méndez, De gente común: Arte, política y rebeldía social, México: Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, 2013.