Publications

My research is focused on illegal markets and their relation to the state, and governments in urban contexts. After my PhD, I conducted a research project on the market for stolen vehicles and auto-parts in Buenos Aires and Mexico City. In the following years, my research has been centered on the marketplace for garments produced in sweatshops known as La Salada, in the Great Buenos Aires. My writings are about law enforcement in such social contexts, the political economy of illegality and, at a micro-sociological level, about the production of social order in outlawed economies.

Making it at any cost

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, 2020

El orden clandestino

KATZ EDITORES, BUENOS AIRES, 2015

The architecture of
illegal markets

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017

Schattenwirtschaft

BPB, 2019

Making it at any cost

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, 2020

El orden clandestino

KATZ EDITORES, BUENOS AIRES, 2015

The architecture of
illegal markets

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017

Schattenwirtschaft

BPB, 2019

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

BOOKS

EDITED BOOKS

EDITED BOOKS

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

In process

Futurity beyond the State: Illegal Markets and Imagined Futures  
In: Latin American Politics and Society. With Kedron Thomas.

2021

The Political Economy of Law Enforcement.
In: MaxPo Discussion Papers 21/1. With Cornelia Woll and Lucas Ronconi

2012

Illegal Police Protection and the Market for Stolen Vehicles in Buenos Aires.
In: Journal of Latin American Studies 44, 4, 679–702

2007

Frustración, desconfianza y emergencia de la informalidad. In: Lateinamerika Analysen, N° 18, 3, Hamburg, p. 3-29
In: Lateinamerika Analysen, N° 18, 3, Hamburg, p. 3-29

CHAPTERS

CHAPTERS

2019

The creative copy: Agency and fashion in a market for counterfeited garments.
In: Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America.
Juan Poblete and Víctor Goldgel Carballo (Eds.). Routledge.

This market changed my life: Aspirations and morality in markets for counterfeits.
In: The Contested Moralities of Markets. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Vol. 63, 67–84

2017

La importancia de La Salada. Protección gubernamental y expansión del mercado informal de la indumentaria. In: Conurbano Infinito. Edited by Rodrigo Zarazaga. Editorial Siglo XXI, Buenos Aires, p. 177-206

Salir de la clandestinidad. In: Atlas de la Argentina. Le Monde Diplomatique. Buenos Aires.

2016

The Organization of Market Expectations beyond Legality: Towards new Distinctions in Luhmann’s Theory of Systems. In: Sociology of Constitutions: A Paradoxical Perspective. Edited by Giancarlo Corsi and Alberto Febbrajo. Routledge, p. p. 198-210

Producing Moral Ambiguity: State and Sweatshops after Neoliberalism in Argentina. In: Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud. Eds: D. Whyte & J. Wiegratz. Routledge, pp. 184-197

2011

Schutzindustrien jenseits der Legalität: Theoretische Annäherung an die Beziehung zwischen Staat und Kriminalität in Buenos Aires. In: Lateinamerika: Ein (un)sicherer Kontinent? Edited by H.-J. Burchhardt and I. Wehr. Nomos, p. 163-179

Wenn die Entscheidungsakzeptanz scheitert: Vertrauen und Misstrauen im Legitimationsprozess in Argentinien. In: Durch Luhmanns Brille: Politik, Recht und Gesellschaft als Herausforderung für Lateinamerika. Edited by P. Birle, M. Dewey and A. Mascareño. Springer VS, p. 59-73

2008

Argentinische Wissenschaftler in Deutschland. In: Die Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Argentinien. (Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana). Edited by P. Birle. Frankfurt: Vervuert, 207-221

WORKING PAPERS

WORKING PAPERS

CHAPTERS IN HANDBOOKS AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

CHAPTERS IN HANDBOOKS AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

In process

Illegal Markets. In: Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology. Oxford University Press

2019

Informelle Institutionen, Staatsmacht und Illegalität in Lateinamerika. In: Handbuch Lateinamerika. Maihold, Sangmeister and Werz (Eds.), Nomos.

The characteristics of illegal markets. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press.

2017

State Power and Crime. In: The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology.
William Outhwaite and Stephen Turner (Eds.), p. 699-714

BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEWS

2019

Economies of Favour after Socialism. Henig, David and Makovicky, Nicolette, eds. (2016) Oxford University Press, Oxford. In: Economic Sociology: European Electronic Newsletter Vol. 20 • No 2

2005

Laclau, Ernesto, La razón populista. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica. In: Revista Iberoamericana, No. 26, VII/2007

Hernández, Antonio M./Zovatto, Daniel/Mora y Araujo, Manuel, Encuesta de cultura constitucional. Argentina: una sociedad anómica. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In: Lateinamerika Analysen No. 13, 1/2006, Hamburg

OTHER WRITINGS

OTHER WRITINGS