Politics, Culture and Economy in Popular Practices in the Americas

Eduardo González Castillo is a social anthropologist whose studies concern popular culture, youth activism, alternative media and urban space in Mexico and Canada. Currently, he works as a lecturer at University of Montreal and at University of Ottawa. Jorge Pantaleón is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montreal. His interests include economic ethnography and social and cultural transformation in Latin-American contemporaries societies.
Dr. Pantaleón is the author of several books concerning popular economic practices, immigration and development. Nuria Carton de Grammont is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for International Studies of the University of Montreal (CERIUM), where she also coordinates the Réseau d'études de l'Amérique latine. Dr. Carton de Grammont works on the aestheticsviolence and on the impact of narcotraffic in art and popular culture in contemporary Mexico.