Books
2023 A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe. Duke University Press. Open Access Version here.
2012 The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy. The University of Chicago Press.
Special Collections
In Progress Editor (with Cameron Hu). Capitalism´s Grotesque Life. Edited Volume.
2023 What is a Financial Frontier? (with Andrea Ballestero). Special Collection for the Journal of Cultural Economy. Volume 16 (2023).
2020 Editor (with Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan). Distribute2020: An Invitation to Reuse, Recombine, Cite, Relate, and Teach! Cultural Anthropology Contributed Content. Teaching Tools.
2012 Editor (with Nitzan Shoshan). Special Issue “Post-Fordist Affect.” Vol. 85(2).
Articles and Other Writing
Forthcoming Water as a Frontier of Financialization. Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology. Cristina Grasseni, Coco Kanters, Erik Bähre and Doug Holmes (eds.).
2023 Life as Debt versus Debt to Life: Water, Finance, Infrastructure. Economy and Society. 52:4, 675-696.
2023 An Infinity of Traces: A Comment on Gens. BoasBlogs on Researching Capitalism, 23.05.2023
2023 Contract as Frontier Device, or, The Political Publics of Water Infrastructures. Journal of Cultural Economy, 16:3, 363-376.
2023 What is a Financial Frontier? Introduction to Special Collection. Journal of Cultural Economy. With Andrea Ballestero and Gloria Pérez-Rivera. 16:3, 311-322.
2021 Review. Andreas Bieler. Fighting for Water: Resisting Water Privatization in Europe. Global Labor Studies.
2020 Water as Right, Water as Future. Public Books, December 4.
2020 Virus and Commons. The Blackwood. Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge Broadsheet. “Tilting.”
2020 Das Notwendige Nass. Widerspruch: Beiträge zu Sozialistischer Politik. Heft 75: 45-52.
2019 Review of “The Management of Hate” (Nitzan Shoshan). Ethnos.
2019 Toward a Social Infrastructure. In: E-Flux. / Liquid Utility.
2019 On Possession, Use, and Financialized Infrastructure. Cultural Anthropology. Theorizing the Contemporary: Usufruct. Edited by Lauren Bonilla and Rebecca Empson.
2018. Sister Water. The Blackwood. Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge Broadsheet. “Commuting.” Reprinted as “È possibile trattare l’acqua come una relazione?” in Gli Stati Generali dell´Acqua. Margherita Tezza (ed.).
2018 Commonwealth. In: History and Anthropology, Special Issue edited by Theodoros Rakoupolos and Knut Rio. Volume 29(3): 342-358.
2018 What is a Life? On Poverty and Race in Humanitarian Italy. Special Collection on Whiteness and Crisis in Europe. Berghahn Books.
2018 Inquisitorial Reason. Cultural Anthropology. Theorizing the Contemporary: Time of Monsters. Edited by D. Boyer.
2018 Roundtable Review of Melinda Cooper’s “Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism.” Edited by Diane Labrosse and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins. Vol. XIX (38).
2018 Review of Emiliana Armano, Arianna Bove, Annalisa Murgia (eds.), Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity, and Uncertain Livelihoods: Subjectivities and Resistance. Heft 22 (2018) der Zeitschrift Sozial.Geschichte Online.
2018 Commentary. Current Anthropology, on “The social life of a mafia confession: Between talk and silence in Sicily" by Theodoros Rakopoulos. Vol. 60(11): 167-191.
2018 Review of Elizabeth Povinelli’s “Geontologies: A Requiem for Late Liberalism.” Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 91 no. 1, 2018, p. 451-456.
2017 The Irish Water Insurgency: No More Blood From These Stones. Roar Magazine. Spanish translation here. Bosnian translation here.
2017 The Price of Austerity: Vital Politics and the Struggle for Public Water in Italy. In: Anthropology Today. Special Collection edited by Laura Bear and Daniel Knight. Vol. 33(5): 20-23.
2017 The Body of Solidarity. Comparative Studies in Society and History (CSSH). Volume 59, pp. 96-126.
2016 Building an Archive of Vulnerability: #Guerrilla Archiving at #UofT. PPEH Lab. December 30, 2016.
2016 Anthropologies of Austerity. History and Anthropology. Online Version out April 2016. Print Copy June 2016.
2016 Time of Monsters. Cultural Anthropology “Hot Spots” Series on “The Crisis of Liberalism.”
2016 Camp in the City. Cultural Anthropology “Hot Spots” Series on the “Refugee Crisis in Europe.”
2016 La Lezione dei GAP e il Diritto all’Acqua. Comune-Info. April.
2016 How to Kill the Demos. Roar Magazine. January.
2015 Come si Uccide la Democrazia (Italian version of “How to Kill the Demos”). Comune-Info. December 2015.
2014 On Economic Suicide. Anthropology News. March 2014.
2013 On Precariousness and the Ethical Imagination. The Year 2012 in Socio-Cultural Anthropology. American Anthropologist. Vol. 115(2): 297-311.
2013 The Catholicization of Neoliberalism: On Love and Welfare in Lombardy, Italy. American Anthropologist. Vol. 115(3): 452-465. Reprinted in Janice Boddy and Michael Lambek (eds.). A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion. First Edition. Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2013.
2013 Integration. "Field Notes on Affect." Cultural Anthropology "Fieldsites." February 2013.
2011 On Affective Labor in Post-Fordist Italy. Cultural Anthropology. Vol. 26(1): 59-82.
2009 Complexio Oppositorum. Notes on the Left in Neoliberal Italy. Public Culture. Volume 21(3): 495-515.
2006 With Jessica Greenberg. The Old World and its New Economy: On the “Third Age” in Contemporary Western Europe.” In Jennifer Cole, Deborah Durham (eds.). Generations and Globalization. Indiana University Press.
2003 What Self in Self-Determination? Notes from the Frontiers of Transnational Indigenous Activism. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Vol. 10(2): 241-268.
2001 Making Place at the United Nations. An Anthropological Inquiry into the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 16(3): 415-435.
1997 Between the Fires. An Essay on two South African Novels. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Vol. 36(1): 65-85.