!!Andrea Muehlebach - Biography
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Andrea Muehlebach is Professor of “Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water” at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen, Germany - a position she took after thirteen years at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Before that, she was a William Rainey Harper Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, where she also received her Ph.D. Her research interests have explored the politics and ethics of economic life, especially as they unfold in light of the fundamental re-arrangement of public institutions under neoliberal conditions. \\
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Her first book (The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy, Chicago University Press 2012) investigated neoliberal welfare reforms and the moral authoritarianisms (as well as tensions and contradictions) that often accompany them. Her second book (A Vital Politics: Water Insurgencies in Europe, Duke UP 2023) delves into the politics of water financialization and re-municipalization in austerity-era Europe. It does so from the vantage point of the political, legal, and ethical struggles people wage as they seek to protect water as a public good or commons. Andrea Muehlebach is currently involved in a third research project on the "Rights of Nature" - a trade book she is writing for Penguin Press. She has published many articles in peer reviewed journals and is a Member of several Editorial Boards (Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, and the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology). From 2017-2022 she was also an elected Member of the Executive Board of the Society for Cultural Anthropology.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit amuehlebach}][{ALLOW upload amuehlebach}][{ALLOW comment All}]