Michael Como

Socio-Cultural Anthropology

Regional focus: Argentina

Topical interests: Political and Economic Anthropology, Argentina, Humanism, Labor, Participatory Democracy, Labor Unions/Organization.

I am interested in decision-making processes and kinship in the recuperated workplaces (empresas recuperadas) largely located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I'm specifically interested in metaphors for kinship as they relate to participatory democracy in new configurations of economic and political process. I am also interested in looking into local categories of self-management, value, personhood, community, solidarity, and community in these contexts, as workers in the recuperated workplaces often create networks among each other (mutual aid organizations) as well as in their surrounding communities.

Papers, Presentations, and Awards:

• 2006 Undergraduate Award- Society for Humanistic Anthropology
• Honors in the Major Program-Florida State University 2006
• Presenter- Negotiating Language and Power: Passive Responsibility as Social Action Among Bilingual Salvadoran Immigrants in Suburban Long Island-Meeting of the Minds Conference-Clemson University 2006
• "Negotiating Language and Power: Passive Responsibility as Social Action Among Bilingual Salvadoran Immigrants in Suburban Long Island." (May 18, 2006) Florida State University D-Scholarship Repository, Article #172:
  http://dscholarship.lib.fsu.edu/undergrad/172