Email
canessa@essex.ac.ukTelephone
+44 (0) 1206 873440
Location
6.352, Colchester Campus
Academic support hours
By appointment
Biography
Andrew is a social anthropologist and has worked for many years with Aymara speakers in highland Bolivia and has published widely on issues of indigeneity, race, gender, and sexuality. More recently he was the PI in an ESRC funded project looking at the evolution of a British Gibraltarian identity over the course of the 20th century. Member of the University of Essex Human Rights Centre ESRC research project: Bordering on Britishness: An Oral History of Gibraltarian Identity in the 20th Century Teaching interests: Latin America, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, indigenous peoples, anthropology.
Qualifications
BA
PhD (LSE)
Research interests
Indigenous studies
Latin America, especially the Andes
Gender and sexualities
Ethnic and racial identities
Bolivia, especially indigenous peoples
I am interested in social and political processes in Bolivia, especially as they relate to indigenous peoples.
Gibraltar
I am particularly interested in the development of Gibraltarian identity over the course of the 20th Century and have conducted a major oral history study Bordering on Britishness.
Current research
Andrew is currently finishing an ESRC funded project Bordering on Britishness: An Oral History Study of Gibraltarian Identitywhich explores through almost 400 interviews how Gibraltar evolved from an overwhelmining Spanish speaking in the beginning of the 20th century to one which is increasingly anglophone and where most people passionately reject any association with Spanishness.
Current teaching responsibilities
The Current Issues in Social Science (SC340)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 26/7/2022
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 25/3/2022
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 25/6/2021
Degree subject: Human Rights
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 6/1/2021
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 8/4/2019
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 14/7/2017
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/2/2017
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/5/2016
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 6/3/2015
Degree type: Occasional Postgraduate Study
Awarded date: 1/10/2014
Degree type: Occasional Postgraduate Study
Awarded date: 22/7/2012
Degree type: Occasional Postgraduate Study
Awarded date: 22/4/2012
Journal articles (32)
Canessa, A., (2023). Learning ignorance and illiteracy through education: reflections on highland Bolivia. cultura & psyché: Journal of Cultural Psychology. 4 (1), 19-31
Canessa, A., (2023). Ethnic Elder Poverty: Miao Household Livelihoods and Elderly Self-Sufficiency Practices in Midwest China. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment. 45 (2), 55-68
Orsini, G., Canessa, A. and Martínez del Campo, LG., (2021). The Strategic Mobilisation of the Border in Gibraltar: The Postcolonial (Re)Production of Privilege and Exclusion. Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography. 23, 60-75
Orsini, G., Canessa, A., Gonzaga Martínez del Campo, L. and Ballantine Pereira, J., (2019). Fixed Lines, Permanent Transitions. International Borders, Cross-Border Communities and the Transforming Experience of Otherness. Journal of Borderlands Studies. 34 (3), 361-376
Canessa, A., (2018). Indigenous Conflict in Bolivia Explored Through an African Lens: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Indigeneity. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 60 (2), 308-337
Canessa, A., (2018). Hobbes’ Border Guards or Evo’s Originary Citizens? Indigenous People and the Sovereign State in Bolivia. New Diversities. 19 (2), 69-84
Canessa, A., (2017). Bearing witness: Testimonies, translations, and ontologies in the andes. HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 7 (1), 545-551
Canessa, A., (2017). Methods really do matter A response to Marisol de la Cadena. HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 7 (2), 15-17
Ballantine Perera, J. and Canessa, A., (2016). Gibraltarian Oral Histories: Walking the Line Between Critical Distance and Subjectivity. Life Writing. 13 (2), 273-283
Canessa, A., (2015). Les paradoxes des politiques multiculturelles en Bolivie : entre inclusion et exclusion. Problèmes d'Amérique latine. N° 92 (1), 11-26
Canessa, A., (2014). El pasado en el presente: explorando historias indígenas en Bolivia. Revista Española de Antropología Americana. 44 (1), 255-273
Canessa, A., (2014). Conflict, claim and contradiction in the new ‘indigenous’ state of Bolivia. Critique of Anthropology. 34 (2), 153-173
Canessa, A., (2012). Gender, Indigeneity, and the Performance of Authenticity in Latin American Tourism. Latin American Perspectives. 39 (6), 109-115
Canessa, A., (2012). New Indigenous Citizenship in Bolivia: Challenging the Liberal Model of the State and its Subjects. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. 7 (2), 201-221
Canessa, ALE., (2012). De la arqueología a la autonomía: El uso de restos precolombinos para forjar una nueva relación con el Estado en Bolivia. Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos. 12 (2)
Canessa, A., (2010). Dreaming of Fathers: Fausto Reinaga and Indigenous Masculinism. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. 5 (2), 175-187
Canessa, A., (2009). Forgetting the Revolution and Remembering the War: Memory and Violence in Highland Bolivia. History Workshop Journal. 68 (1), 173-198
Canessa, ALE., (2009). El indio desde adentro, el indio desde afuera: ciudadanía, raza y sexo en una comunidad boliviana.. La Manzana de la Discordia. 5 (2), 5-5
Canessa, A., (2008). The Past is Not Another Country: Exploring Indigenous Histories in Bolivia. History and Anthropology. 19 (4), 353-369
Canessa, A., (2008). Sex And The Citizen: Barbies And Beauty Queens In The Age Of Evo Morales. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. 17 (1), 41-64
Canessa, A., (2007). Who is indigenous? Self-identification, indigeneity, and claims to justice in contemporary Bolivia. Urban Anthropology. 36 (3), 195-237
Canessa, A., (2007). A postcolonial turn: Social and political change in the new indigenous order of Bolivia. Urban Anthropology. 36 (3), 145-159
Canessa, A., (2007). El indio desde adentro, el indio desde afuera: ciudadanía, raza y sexo en una comunidad boliviana. La manzana de la discordia. 4 (2), 7-23
Canessa, A., (2006). Todos somos indígenas: Towards a New Language of National Political Identity. Bulletin of Latin American Research. 25 (2), 241-263
Canessa, ALE., (2006). De latigazos a libros de texto: Observaciones sobre el racismo en Larecaja. Fe y Pueblo. 10 (1), 55-73
Canessa *, A., (2004). Reproducing racism: schooling and race in highland Bolivia. Race Ethnicity and Education. 7 (2), 185-204
Canessa, A., (2000). Fear and loathing on the kharisiri trail: Alterity and identity in the Andes. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 6 (4), 705-720
CANESSA, A., (2000). Contesting Hybridity: Evangelistas and Kataristas in Highland Bolivia. Journal of Latin American Studies. 32 (1), 115-144
Canessa, ALE., (1998). Procreation, the Person and Ethnic Difference in Highland Bolivia. Ethnos. 63 (2), 227-227
Canessa, A., (1998). Evangelical Protestantism in the Northern Highlands of Bolivia. Studies in World Christianity. 4 (Part_1), 21-40
Canessa, A., (1998). Evangelical Protestantism in the Northern Highlands of Bolivia. Studies in World Christianity. 4 (1), 21-40
Howard-Malverde, R. and Canessa, A., (1995). The school in the Quechua and Aymara communities of highland Bolivia. International Journal of Educational Development. 15 (3), 231-243
Books (9)
Canessa, A. and Picq, ML., (2024). Savages and Citizens How Indigeneity Shapes the State. University of Arizona Press. 0816553963. 9780816553976
Brablec, D. and Canessa, A., (2023). Urban Indigeneities Being Indigenous in the Twenty-first Century. University of Arizona Press. 081654882X. 9780816548828
Canessa, A., (2019). Bordering on Britishness National Identity in Gibraltar from the Spanish Civil War to Brexit. Palgrave Macmillan. 3319993097. 978-3-319-99309-6
Canessa, A., Orsini, G., Campbell, B., Ponce, J., Diaz, B. and Martinez del Valle, L., (2018). Barrier and Bridge: Spanish and Gibraltarian Perspectives on Their Border. Sussex Academic Press. 1845199057. 9781845199050
Canessa, A., (2012). Intimate Indigeneities Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life. Duke University Press. 0822352672. 9780822352679
Affairs, IWGFI. and IWGIA, (2012). Género, complementariedades y exclusiones en Mesoamérica y los Andes. 8792786111. 9788792786111
Hernández, RA. and Canessa, A., (2012). Género, complementariedades y exclusiones en Mesoamérica y los Andes.. International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA); Abya Yala Press; The British Academy. 9788792786111
Canessa, A., (2011). Natives making nation: Gender, indigeneity, and the state in the Andes. 9780816530137
Canessa, A., (2006). Minas, Mote y Muņecas Identidades e Indigeneidades en Larecaja. 9789990588002
Book chapters (20)
Brablec, D. and Canessa, A., (2023). Indigenous Peoples in the Cities of the World. In: Urban Indigeneities: Being Indigenous in the 21st Century. Editors: Canessa, A. and Brablec, D., . University of Arizona Press. 1- 1
Orsini, G., Canessa, A. and Martinez, L., (2018). Small Territories/Big Borders: Gibraltar, Lampedusa, and Melilla. In: Barrier and Bridge: Gibraltarian and Spanish Perspectives on their Border. Editors: Canessa, A., . Sussex Academic Press. 22- 22. 978-1-84519-905-0
Canessa, A., Orsini, G. and Martínez, L., (2018). An Example to the World!:’ Multiculturalism in the Creation of a Gibraltarian Identity. In: Barrier and Bridge: Gibraltarian and Spanish Perspectives on their Border. Editors: Canessa, A., . Sussex Academic Press. 102- 125. 978-1-84519-905-0
Canessa, A., Orsini, G. and Martínez, L., (2018). Gibraltar as a Gated Community: A Critical Look at Gibraltarian Nationalism. In: Barrier and Bridge: Gibraltarian and Spanish Perspectives on their Border. Editors: Canessa, A., . Sussex Academic Press. 150- 174. 978-1-84519-905-0
Canessa, ALE., (2017). Painful Proximity: Two Women's Accounts of the Gibraltar/Spanish Border. In: Encyclopedia of Migrants. L'age de la tortue
Canessa, A., (2017). Competing Indigeneities: Being a (Hyper)real Ecowarrior in Twenty-first Century Bolivia. In: Global Entangled Inequalities: Conceptual Debates and Evidence from Latin America. Editors: Jelin, E., Motta, RC. and Costa, S., . Routledsge. 128- 143. 9781138740600
Canessa, ALE., (2016). The Paradoxes of Multiculturalism in Bolivia. In: The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Latin America. Editors: Lehmann, D., . Springer. 1137509589. 9781137509581
Canessa, ALE., (2013). Geschlecht und Sexualität in Lateinamerika in (post-) postkolonialer Perspektive. In: Frauen (und) Macht in Lateinamerika. Editors: Tuider, E. and Burchardt, H., . Nomos
Canessa, ALE., (2012). Soñando con padres: Fausto Reinaga y el masculinismo indígena. In: Hacia un futuro Indígena en Mesoamérica y los Andes: Género, Complementariedades y Exclusiones. Editors: Canessa, A. and Hernandez Castillo, A., . IWGIA/Abya Yala. 99- 117. 978-87-92786-11-1
Canessa, ALE. and Hernandez Castillo, R., (2012). Introducción: Identidades Indígenas y Relaciones de Género en Mesoamérica y la Región Andina. In: Hacia un futuro Indígena en Mesoamérica y los Andes: Género, Complementariedades y Exclusiones.. Editors: Canessa, A. and Hernandez Castillo, R., . IWGIA/Abya Yala
Canessa, ALE., (2012). Sitios Antiguos y Nuevas Ciudadanías: El uso de la arqueología para crear autonomía autóctona en Bolivia. In: Autoctonía, poder local y espacio global frente a la noción de ciudadanía. Editors: Orobitg, G. and Pitarch, P., . Universitat de Barcelona
Canessa, A., (2011). The Indian within, the Indian without: Citizenship, race, and sex in a Bolivian Hamlet. In: Natives Making Nation: Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes. 130- 155
Canessa, A., (2011). Introduction: Making the nation on the margins. 3- 31
Canessa, ALE., (2008). Celebrando lo indígena en Bolivia: Unas reflexiones sobre el año nuevo Aymara. In: Repensando las identidades y políticas indígenas en América Latina. Editors: Martinez Novo, C., . Flacso
Canessa, ALE., (2008). El sexo y el ciudadano: Barbies y reinas de belleza en la era de Evo Morales.. In: Raza, etnicidad y sexualidades: ciudadanía y multiculturalismo en América Latina. Editors: Wade, P., Urrea, F. and Viveros, M., . CES
Canessa, ALE., (2006). ‘Kharisiri: Maldad y alteridad en los Andes meridionales.’. In: Conceptos del Mal en Latinoamerica.. Editors: Gareis, I., . BAS (Bonner Amerikanistische Studien / Estudios Americanistas de Bonn),. 167- 201
Canessa, ALE., (2003). Evangelistas y Kataristas en Bolivia. In: Ensayos sobre la sociología de religión andina
Canessa, ALE., (2002). Postmodernismo y evangelismo en Bolivia. In: Religion y postmodernidad: Las recientes alteraciones de campo religioso. Abya Yala. 47- 66
Canessa, ALE., (1999). Making Persons, Marking Difference: Procreation in Highland Bolivia. In: Conceiving Persons: Ethnographies of Procreations, Substance, and Personhood. Editors: Loizos, P. and Heady, P., . Athlone Press. 69- 87
Canessa, ALE., (1997). Chachawarmi: negociando (des)igualdades de género en una aldea aymara boliviana. In: In Nuevas Direcciones en los Estudios Andinos. Editors: Arnold, D., . ILCA/CIPCA
Reports and Papers (1)
Canessa, A., (2012). Conflict, Claim and Contradiction in the New Indigenous State of Bolivia
Other (1)
Canessa, A., (2008).From the Editor of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. American Anthropologist. 110(4),Wiley
2019
Conquering Self-Representation: A Collaborative Approach to the Aesthetical-Political Dimension of Amazonian Contemporary Art
European Commission
2013
Bordering on Britishness
Economic & Social Research Council
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