Ana C. Dinerstein

Reader in Sociology, University of Bath, UK. Critical theorist and social philosopher. Born in Buenos Aires, with Italian and Eastern European backgrounds. Studied music, architecture, drama, and politics. Her method of inquiry combines a critique of political economy with Ernst Bloch's philosophy of hope, politics, critical feminism, art, and decoloniality. She has opened a new trans-disciplinary field of critical research: the global politics of hope. At the centre of her research is the analysis of the contradictory processes of transformation led by social, labour, indigenous, urban, and rural movements mainly in both South and North. She explores 'the art of organising hope' i.e. the creation of ‘concrete utopias’ that contest capitalist patriarchal coloniality and how they create an excess or surplus utopia that cannot be ‘translated’ into the language of state power and the law. Her publications include: -The Labour Debate (2002, co-editor with Mike Neary) -The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope (2015) -Social Sciences for An Other Politics: Women Theorising without Parachutes (editor) (2016) -Open Marxism 4: Against a Closing World (2019; co-edited with John Holloway). -A world beyond Work? Labour, Money and the State between crisis and utopia (2021, co-authored with F.H.Pitts) https://www.anaceciliadinerstein.com