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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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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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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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
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Open access
Cambridge, Carnaval, and the ‘actually existing circularity’ of plastics
O'Hare, P., 27 May 2021, In: Worldwide Waste: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 4, 1, 12 p., 4.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Introduction to special collection: social science and the social life of plastics
Steger, B., O'Hare, P. & Perez, T. S., 5 May 2021, In: Worldwide Waste: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 4, 1, p. 1-8 8 p., 4.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Landfill life and the many lives of landfills
O'Hare, P., 28 Dec 2021, The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies. Lepawsky, J. & Gille, Z. (eds.). 1 ed. New York : Routledge, p. 55-67 13 p. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
'We looked after people better when we were informal': the 'quasi-formalisation' of Montevideo's waste-pickers
O'Hare, P., 21 Jan 2020, In: Bulletin of Latin American Research. 39, 1, p. 53-68 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review