Ezequiel Adamovsky

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Ezequiel Adamovsky

Ezequiel Adamovsky holds a PhD in History from University College London (UCL) and a Licenciatura in History from the University of Buenos Aires. He is a Principal Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and has been a Visiting Researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France. He is a tenured Full Professor at the National University of San Martín and a Professor in the Master’s Program in Argentine and Latin American History at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. He has also taught courses at other universities in Argentina and abroad. His research has focused on European intellectual history and the history of the middle and popular classes in Argentina and in Latin America. His articles have appeared in some of the world’s leading history journals, including Past & Present and The Journal of Modern History, as well as in leading journals in his fields of specialization.

He is the 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 (with Esteban Buch, Buenos Aires, Planeta, 2016); El gaucho indómito: de Martín Fierro a Perón, el emblema imposible de una nación desgarrada (Buenos Aires, Siglo Veintiuno, 2019); Historia de la Argentina, biografía de un país (Buenos Aires, Crítica, 2020); and La fiesta de los negros: una historia del antiguo carnaval de Buenos Aires y su legado en la cultura popular (Buenos Aires, Siglo Veintiuno, 2024), among others.

In 2009, he was awarded the James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize; in 2013, the Premio Nacional (First Prize, History category); in 2016, the Premio Bernardo Houssay; in 2020, the Ibero-American Book Award, awarded by the Latin American Studies Association; and in 2024, the Premio Konex (Political Essay category), awarded by the Konex Foundation.

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), 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), and Del antiperonismo al individualismo autoritario: Ensayos e intervenciones (2015-2023) [From Anti-Peronism to Authoritarian Individualism: Essays and Interventions (2015–2023)] (San Martín, 2023).

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.

Ezequiel Adamovsky, Ignacio Aguiló, Alejandro Frigerio and Ana Vivaldi: “Challenging Whiteness and Europeanness in Argentine Cultural Production”, in Peter Wade, Lúcia Sá, Ignacio Aguiló (eds.) Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2026, pp. 97-126.

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.