Cristina Cielo
Cristina Cielo is Professor-Researcher in the Department of Sociology and Gender Studies of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Quito, Ecuador. She studies the subjective and political dimensions of economic inequality produced by the violence of contemporary forms of property and authority. She has explored these issues through research and teaching in Ecuador […]

Cristina Cielo is Professor-Researcher in the Department of Sociology and Gender Studies of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Quito, Ecuador. She studies the subjective and political dimensions of economic inequality produced by the violence of contemporary forms of property and authority. She has explored these issues through research and teaching in Ecuador and Bolivia, the Philippines, and Bolivia, California, and South Africa. Through collaborative and comparative methodologies, she seeks to contribute to the relational analysis of our multi-scale belongings in the global economy, in national territories and in our common and vital forms of care. She holds a PhD in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, and coordinates research groups in FLACSO on transactions, economies and common life, and the CLACSO GT Popular economies: theorethical and practical mapping.