Overview
Background
Owen McNamara is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Queensland. Trained as a Political and Environmental Anthropologist, Owen's primary research interests are populism, housing, masculinities and alternative agricultural systems. He is particularly interested in exploring processes of ideological formation as they relate to populist or otherwise illiberal commitments.
Owen has carried out fieldwork in Argentina, Mexico and Spain working alongside Peronist agroecologists, native corn revivalists, and tenants' rights activists.
He is the author of the forthcoming book The Populist Ecosystem: Peronism and Agroecology in Argentina which will be published with the University of North Carolina Press.
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Works
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2026
Journal Article
Peronist bodies: The populist and antipopulist semiotics of protest
McNamara, Owen (2026). Peronist bodies: The populist and antipopulist semiotics of protest. Critique of Anthropology, 46 (2), 127-145. doi: 10.1177/0308275x251355708
2025
Journal Article
‘Now all the world wants to be Oaxacan’: native corn commercialization and changing meanings of southern identities in Mexico
McNamara, Owen (2025). ‘Now all the world wants to be Oaxacan’: native corn commercialization and changing meanings of southern identities in Mexico. Identities, 1-20. doi: 10.1080/1070289x.2025.2543662
2024
Book Chapter
Gender and populism
McNamara, Owen (2024). Gender and populism. The international encyclopedia of anthropology. (pp. 1-8) edited by H. Callan. Hoboken, NJ United States: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2532
2023
Journal Article
"The pandemic came to teach us how to eat": COVID-19, mutual vulnerability, and native corn in Oaxaca
McNamara, Owen (2023). "The pandemic came to teach us how to eat": COVID-19, mutual vulnerability, and native corn in Oaxaca. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 29 (1), 81-91. doi: 10.1111/jlca.12710
2022
Journal Article
Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion
McNamara, Owen (2022). Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion. Polar-Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 45 (1). doi: 10.1111/plar.12472
2021
Journal Article
Pyrrhic nationals: The promise and pitfalls of masculine civic belonging in Argentina
McNamara, Owen (2021). Pyrrhic nationals: The promise and pitfalls of masculine civic belonging in Argentina. Feminist Anthropology, 3 (1), 120-136. doi: 10.1002/fea2.12073
2019
Journal Article
"Making coin" and the networker: Masculine self-making in the Australian professional managerial class
McNamara, Owen (2019). "Making coin" and the networker: Masculine self-making in the Australian professional managerial class. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 30 (3), 294-308. doi: 10.1111/taja.12331
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