Owen McNamara is a political and environmental anthropologist working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the Australian National University. In 2023 he won a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, and in July of that year commenced research on a new project on left-wing populism and tenants’ rights advocacy in Spain. Owen is interested in questions of ideology, gender (especially masculinity), pollution, race, settler-colonialism, and economic exclusion. He has previously conducted fieldwork in Argentina for his PhD thesis, and Mexico as part of the SeedsValues project.

Publications

• McNamara, Owen. (2023). The pandemic came to teach us how to eat”: COVID-19, mutual vulnerability, and native corn in Oaxaca. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
• McNamara, Owen. (2022). Pyrrhic Nationals: the promise and pitfalls of masculine civic belonging in Argentina. Feminist Anthropology. 3(1)
• McNamara, Owen. (2019). "Making Coin" and the Networker: masculine self-making in the Australian professional managerial class. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 30(3)