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Professor of Sociology
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
PhD, Sociology, New School for Social Research
Contact: stillejo@gvsu.edu
My scholarly work focuses on labor, consumption, and middle classes in Chile; I have also published comparative work on labor in Latin America.
1) My first project examines the trajectory of metalworkers' protests under democratic, authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes. I have been particularly interested in the relationship between space and protest. As part of this project, I coedited Que significa el trabajo hoy?
2) My second project focuses on shopping in traditional and modern retail formats in Chile as well as more synthetic work on consumer culture.
3) I built on this research to develop an undergraduate text, The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach (Polity)
4) My book, Identity Investments, analyzes the moral, cultural, and political foundations of middle class economic behavior in Chile. The book won the 2024 ASA Section on Consumers and Consumption Distinguished Book Award.
5) I am currently studying the influence of the Populist Radical Right on middle class political identities in Chile.
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