Campus
- Mississauga (UTM)
Fields of Study
- Sociocultural Anthropology
- Europe
Areas of Interest
Research Keywords: Socio-cultural anthropology and social theory; anthropologies of welfare, state, and citizenship; neoliberalism, austerity, and labor; political ecology; water; anthropology of natural resources and resource management; human-environment relations; political anthropology; anthropologies of law, rights, citizenship and democracy; commons and commoning.
Research Region: Italy, Germany, France
Biography
Professor of Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen: https://www.uni-bremen.de/kultur/personen/andrea-muehlebach
Personal Website: https://www.andreamuehlebach.com/
Education
Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 2007)
Publications
Books
Under Review “A Vital Politics: Water Insurgencies in Europe.”
2012 “The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy.” The University of Chicago Press.
Collections
2020 Editor (with Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan). Distribute2020: An Invitation to Use, Reuse, Recombine, Cite, Relate, and Teach! Cultural Anthropology Fieldsites. Teaching Tools.
2012 Editor (with Nitzan Shoshan) of a special issue entitled “Post-Fordist Affect,” Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 85, #2, Spring 2012.
Recent Articles
2018 Commonwealth: On Democracy and Dispossession in Italy. Contribution to a Special Issue on Wealth, edited by Theodoros Rakoupolous and Knut Rio. History and Anthropology. Vol. 29(3): 342-358.
2018 What is a Life? On Poverty and Race in Humanitarian Italy. In: Messy Europe: Crisis and Whiteness in Postcolonial Europe. Edited by Kristin Loftsdottir, Andrea Smith, and Birgitte Hipfl. Berghahn University Press.
2017 
The Price of Austerity (PDF) Anthropology Today Vol. 33(5): 20-23.
2017 The Body of Solidarity: On Memory and Materiality in Post-Industrial Italy. Comparative Studies in Society and History. January, 2017.
2016 Anthropologies of Austerity. History and Anthropology. Vol. 27, No. 3. DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2016.1167052
2013 The Catholicization of Neoliberalism: On Love and Welfare in Lombardy, Italy (PDF). American Anthropologist Vol. 115, No. 3: 452-465.
2013 On Precariousness and the Ethical Imagination: The Year 2012 in Sociocultural Anthropology (PDF). American Anthropologist Vol. 115, No. 2: 297-311.
2011 On Affective Labor in Post-Fordist Itality (PDF). Cultural Anthropology Vol. 26(1): 59-82.
2009 Complexio Oppositorum: Notes on the Left in Neoliberal Italy (PDF). Public Culture. Vol. 21(3): 495-515
Other Writing
2020 Das Notwendige Nass. Widerspruch: Beiträge zu Sozialistischer Politik. Heft 75: 45-52.
2020 Water as Right, Water as Future. Public Books, December 4.
2020 Virus and Commons. Blackwood Gallery. Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge Broadsheet. “Tilting.”
2019 Review of “The Management of Hate.” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, December 2019.
2019 Toward a Social Infrastructure. Liquid Utility E-Flux, October 2019
2019 On Possession, Use, and Financialized Infrastructure. Theorizing the Contemporary. Cultural Anthropology.
2018 Sister Water. In: The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto @ Mississauga). Issue: Commuting. June 2018.
2018 Roundtable Review on Melinda Cooper’s “Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism.” Editors: Diane Labrosse and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins. In: H-Diplo Volume XIX, No. 38 (2018) 1 June 2018.
2018 Geontologies by Elizabeth Povinelli. Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 91, No. 1, p. 445–450
2017 The Irish Water Insurgency: No More Blood From These Stones. Roar Magazine. February 6, 2017.
2016 Building an Archive of Vulnerability: #Guerrilla Archiving at #UofT. PPEH Lab. December 30, 2016.
2016 Time of Monsters. Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots Series “Crisis of Liberalism.”
2016 Camp in the City. Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots Series “Refugees and the Crisis of Europe.”
2016 “La lezione dei Gap e il diritto all’acqua.” Comune-info 27 April, 2016.
2016 At the End of Europe. Anthropology News.
2016 How to Kill the Demos. Roar Magazine. January 2016.
2015 Come Si Uccide la Democrazia. Comune Info. December 24, 2015.
2014 On Economic Suicide. Anthropology News. July 2014.
2013 Integration. Invited Commentary in “Field Notes on Affect.” Cultural Anthropology “Fieldsites.”
Press
2021 Interview with Michael Schapira. Full Stop. Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia.
2020 The sudden urgency of online academic conferencing. Moira McDonald University Affairs. April 8, 2020.
2018 Displacements Recap (w. Anand Pandian, Andrea Muehlebach & Marcel LaFlamme). CENHS/Energy Humanities Podcast. With Dominic Boyer. Author interview on "Displacements Recap".
2016 Alternatives to Austerity? A panel discussion at the London School of Economics, June 2016.
2016 “Fighting for Water and Democracy against the Neoliberal Flood.” This is Hell: Manufacturing Dissent since 1996. Interview on "Fighting for Water".
2011 Author interview on "Affective Labor in Post-Fordist Italy", Cultural Anthropology Vol. 26 (1): 59-82.