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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Solid Waste Management in the UN Plastics Treaty: Why action to address solid waste management is both crucial and complementary to upstream actions in ending plastic pollution, and our proposal for how this should be addressed in the Plastics Treaty.
O'Hare, P., Velis, C., Cooke, E. & Wilson, D. C., 1 Apr 2024, 22 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Open access
Circular Economies in an Unequal World: Waste, Renewal and the Effects of Global Circularity
O'Hare, P., 28 Nov 2023, London : Bloomsbury Academic. 248 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
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Open access
Scientists Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty (SCEPT) Waste Management Policy Brief
O'Hare, P. & Kortsen, K., 16 Oct 2023, 4 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Open access
Scientists Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty Just Transition Policy Brief
O'Hare, P. & Noklebye, E., 16 Oct 2023, 4 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Open access
Teorizando a dobradiça cartonera: pesquisa trans-formal para uma prática transformadora
Bell, L., Flynn, A. U., O'Hare, P. & Oliveira, J., 9 Oct 2023, In: Caracol. 26, p. 235-290 56 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Waste, colonialism, and the city
O'Hare, P., 31 Jan 2023, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 29, 1, p. 202-205 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Alternative economies
O'Hare, P., 13 May 2022, A handbook of economic anthropology. Carrier, J. (ed.). 3rd ed. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 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, 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., 1 Feb 2022, London: Pluto Press. 210 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