Research areas
Dr Patrick O'Hare is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (FLF) in the Department of Social Anthropology. His research interests centre on recycling economies in Latin America and include the themes of labour, waste, recycling, infrastructure, and plastics. He has conducted research in Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, and the UK.
Dr O'Hare's current UKRI-funded research project is entitled 'Transforming Plastics into Solidarity: Ethical Vertical Integration and Binational Recycling' and centres on intersections between social and circular economies in the Uruguayan and Argentine plastics industries.
After receiving his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 2017, he held research positions at the Universities of Surrey, Manchester, and Cambridge. He forms part of both the AHRC-funded Cartonera Publishing Research Project, focused on the cardboard book-making publishing phenomenon in Latin America and the UKRI-funded Cambridge Creative Circular Plastics Centre. At the University of Manchester he held an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) research fellowship.
PhD supervision
- Cristian Erazo Romero
Selected publications
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Alternative Economies
O'Hare, P., 13 May 2022, A Handbook of Economic Anthropology. Carrier, J. (ed.). 3 ed. Cheltenham , p. 487-499 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Packaging EPR in Uruguay
Matonte-Silva, C. & O'Hare, P., 1 Mar 2022, Online: WIEGO. 16 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Rubbish belongs to the poor: hygienic enclosure and the waste commons
O'Hare, P., Feb 2022, London: Pluto Press. 240 p. (Anthropology, culture and society)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
Split Milk in the Anthropocene: Heather Davis's 'Plastic Matter'
O'Hare, P., 29 Aug 2022, In: Anthropology Book Forum. 8, 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Taking form, making worlds: cartonera publishers in Latin America
Bell, L., Ungprateeb Flynn, A. & O'Hare, P., 7 Jun 2022, Austin: University of Texas Press. 360 p. (William and Bettye Nowlin Endowment)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
The politics of coproduction during Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’: water, housing, and waste in comparative perspective
Goodwin, G., O'Hare, P., Sheild Johansson, M. & Alderman, J., Sep 2022, In: World Development. 157, 14 p., 105930.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Waste pickers risk their lives to stop plastic pollution – now they could help shape global recycling policies
O'Hare, P. & Fernandez, L., 29 Nov 2022, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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What can Latin America’s new generation of left governments learn from pink tide experiences of coproduction?
O'Hare, P., Goodwin, G., Alderman, J. & Sheild Johannson, M., 4 Aug 2022, 2 p. London School of Economics and Political Science.Research output: Other contribution
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¿Qué pueden aprender los nuevos gobiernos de izquierda de América Latina de las experiencias de coproducción de la marea rosa?
O'Hare, P., Alderman, J., Sheild Johansson, M. & Goodwin, G., 25 Aug 2022, 3 p. London School of Economics and Political Science.Research output: Other contribution
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Book Review: Sanabria, Harry. The anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean (second edition). xx, 395 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2019. £79.99 (paper)
O'Hare, P., 17 Nov 2021, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 27, 4, p. 1019-1020 27.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review