Dr. Kregg Hetherington is a political anthropologist specialized in environment, infrastructure and the bureaucratic state. He is also director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab.
He has written extensively about how small farmers caught in a sweeping agrarian transition in Paraguay have experienced that country's halting transition to democracy, showing how activists create new ways of thinking and practising government. His first book, Guerrilla Auditors, is an ethnography of peasant land struggles in Paraguay, and of how rural thinking about property and information come into conflict with bureaucratic reform projects promoted by international experts. A second, forthcoming monograph, The Government of Beans, focuses on regulation in the soybean boom in Latin America's southern cone is transforming the relationship between government, plants, people and territory.
Kregg's current project, Emergent Waters, is a collaborate ethnographic experiment run out of the Ethnography Lab. The project, based in and around Montreal, aims to understand Montreal’s changing relationship with water as a defining feature of its environment and infrastructure. He is currently looking for graduate students who are interested in becoming part of this research team.
Kregg supervises graduate students working in a wide range of areas, including environment and food, Latin American politics, social movements, infrastructure studies and the ethnography of the state.
