Nicolás Fernández Bravo

I am a social anthropologist and labor activist, both conducting research/teaching at GEALA (Afrolatinamerican Studies Group), Univ. of Buenos Aires and designing/implementing employment policies at the Min. of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Argentina. While I have been active in the labour world since 2000, I became a trade unionist in 2017 at the State Workers Union of Argentina (ATE, Asociación Trabajadores del Estado), during the harsh advancement of conservative policies in the region. I have conducted applied research in my native Argentina and in countries along the global south, including Moçambique, Nicaragua, Jamaica, South Africa, Senegal, Guine-Bissau, Cameroun, Angola, India and Bolivia. My main research and political interests rely on postcolonial theory and race, racism, and ethnicity through labour relations, both formal and "informal".