Ms Amanda Latimer

About

Since joining Kingston in 2011, I've taught modules on the politics and sociology of development (with a focus on the global South), human rights and social justice movements, and been awarded two student-led learning and teaching awards.  I am a social anthropologist whose work focuses on transnational labour and social movements against neoliberal free trade and investment agreements, and current debates around underdevelopment and imperialism. My main interests are the ways in which working people (broadly defined) cut across lines of difference, nation and region to combat the race to the bottom facing working people everywhere, albeit in very particular, historically-grounded ways. In 2022, together with my co-editor Jaime Osorio, I was the winner of the Paul A Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for the publication of The Dialectics of Dependency, a classic work on the roots of Latin American underdevelopment by the Brazilian sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini.  I am currently completing a doctorate at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Academic responsibilities

Senior Lecturer

Qualifications

  • BMus (minor in History), McGill University, Canada
  • BA in Anthropology (minor in Development Studies), McGill University, Canada
  • MA in Social Anthropology, York University, Canada
  • PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, York University, Canada (current)

Teaching and learning

Research