Gavin Smith
About Gavin Smith
Gavin Smith is professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto; and visiting professor, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His work in South America and Western Europe focuses on the connection between the ways people make a livelihood and their forms of political expression. His works include Livelihood and Resistance: Peasants and the Politics of Land in Peru (1989); Confronting the Present: Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology (1999); with Susana Narotzky, Immediate Struggles: People, Power and Place in Rural Spain (2006) & Luchas inmediatas: gente, poder y espacio en la España rural (2010); and Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics: Essays in Historical Realism (2014)
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