Ezequiel Adamovsky

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Ezequiel Adamovsky

After graduating at the University of Buenos Aires, he obtained a PhD from University College London. He is currently Professor at the History Department of the University of Buenos Aires and at the University of San Martín, and Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Argentina’s highest research public body. He was also Guest Researcher at the CNRS in Paris. His academic research has been mainly in the field of intellectual history, with studies referring to Europe and also to middle and lower class identity in Argentina. Some of his articles have been published in journals like History of Political Thought, European History Quarterly, Journal of Modern History, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Hispanic American Historical Review, Desarrollo Económico, Entrepasados, Anuario IEHS, Prismas, Stvdia Historica, etc. He is author of Euro-Orientalism: Liberal Ideology and the Image of Russia in France, c. 1740–1880 (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2006); Historia de la clase media argentina: Apogeo y decadencia de una ilusión, 1919-2003 (Buenos Aires, Planeta, 2009); Historia de las clases populares en Argentina, de 1880 a 2003 (Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 2012); La marchita, el escudo y el bombo: una historia cultural de los emblemas del peronismo, de Perón a Cristina Kirchner (Buenos Aires, Planeta, 2016, with Esteban Buch), El gaucho indómito: de Martín Fierro a Perón, el emblema imposible de una nación desgarrada (Buenos Aires, Siglo veintiuno, 2019) among other books. In 2009 he was awarded the James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize, in 2013 the Premio Nacional (First Prize in history), the highest distinction of the Argentinean state for arts and humanities, in 2016 the Premio Bernardo Houssay, a high distinction of the Argentinean state for scientific contributions, in 2020 the Premio Iberoamericano, awarded by the Latin American Studies Association and in 2024 the Premio Konex.

Apart from his academic publications, he has written extensively on issues of globalisation, anti-capitalism and Leftist politics for websites and journals from several countries. He has published the books Anticapitalismo para principiantes [Anti-capitalism for Beginners] (Buenos Aires, 2003), Más allá de la vieja izquierda: seis ensayos para un nuevo anticapitalismo [Beyond Old Left: Six Essays for a New Anticapitalism] (Buenos Aires, 2007) and El cambio y la impostura: la derrota del kirchnerismo, Macri y la ilusión PRO [Change and Deception: the Defeat of Kirchnerism, Macri and the PRO Illusion] (Buenos Aires, 2017).

Scholarly texts on the history of Argentina, the middle class and ethnicity

A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present

-The book Historia de la clase media argentina (2009) has not been translated into English. You can find more information (including reviews in English) here

Articles:

“Cipriano Reyes and the paradox of a non-diasporic “negro” identity in Argentina” in Célleri, Daniela; Schwarz, Tobias; Wittger, Bea (Ed.): Interdependencies of Social Categorisations, Frankfurt a.M, Vervuert / Iberoamericana, 2013, pp. 91-114.

“Aristotle, Diderot, Liberalism, and the Idea of ‘Middle Class’: A Comparison of Two Formative Moments in the History of a Metaphorical Formation” History of Political Thought, vol. XXVI, no. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 303-333.

“The Middle Class in Argentina”, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. 2016

“Race and Class through the Visual Culture of Peronism”, en Shades of the Nation: Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina, ed. por Eduardo Elena y Paulina Alberto, Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 155-183

“A Strange Emblem for a (Not So) White Nation: La Morocha Argentina in the Latin American Racial Context, c. 1900-2015” Journal of Social History (New York), vol. 50, no. 2, 2016

“Ethnic Nicknaming, Negro as a Term of Endearment and Vicarious Blackness in Argentina (With Some Implications for Debates on Hybridity and Mixed Race Studies)”, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 2017, pp. 273–289.

“Diversity and nation building in the periphery: some thoughts from Argentina”, en Law and Diversity: European and Latin American Experiences from a Legal Historical Perspective, ed. por Peter Collin y Agustín Casagrande, Frankfurt, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, 2023, pp. 297-310.

“1810. Patriotic Voices”, en The Cambridge History of Argentinean Literature, ed. por Mónica Szurmuk and Alejandra Laera, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 24-38.

"On Cultural Appropriation and Cultural Transpropriation: A Latin American Perspective" Race & Class, September 2024 (online), pp. 1-21.

Scholarly texts on European history

-Euro-Orientalism: Liberal Ideology and the Image of Russia in France (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2006). More information about this book and reviews here

Articles:

-“Russian Culture under the French Eyes: Stigma, Civilization and Violence” in Douglas Clayton (ed.): La Russie et le monde francophone, Ottawa, Université d’Ottawa, 2007, pp. 115-137.

-"Russia as the Land of Communism in the Nineteenth Century? Images of Tsarist Russia as a Communist Society in France c. 1840-1880" Cahiers du monde russe, vol. 45, nos. 3-4, Juillet-décembre 2004, pp. 497-520.