Charles Hale

About

Charles Hale is the SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences and a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a leading social science scholar whose research bridges multiple disciplines, with a focus on race and ethnicity, racism, social movements, and identity politics among Black and indigenous peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean. Hale is highly regarded for his innovations in collaborative approaches, which characterize his research, teaching, and administrative leadership. He previously taught at the University of Texas, Austin, and has been recognized with a Fulbright Fellowship for research and teaching in Oaxaca, Mexico. His academic background includes a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Law
• Social psychology
• Ecology
• Law and economics
• Biology
• Environmental ethics
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Engaging Contradictions

  2019-07-11 · 255 citations

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  Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. Some advocate on behalf of the communities they study; others incorporate the knowledge and leadership of their informants directly into the process of knowledge production. What ethical, political, and practical tensions arise in the course of such work? In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholar-activists…

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• Using and Refusing the Law: Indigenous Struggles and Legal Strategies after Neoliberal Multiculturalism

  American Anthropologist · 2020 · 53 citations

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  ABSTRACT This article begins with the contention that the three‐decade era of neoliberal multiculturalism is coming to an end. During that time, Indigenous peoples in Latin America gained a wide array of rights grounded in cultural difference by occupying spaces opened through the multicultural turn and using counterhegemonic strategies to push beyond their intended limits. Struggles in the judicial arena, and the accompanying work of the anthropological expert witness, played a crucial role in…

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• Privatization of the ‘historic debt’? Mapuche territorial claims and the forest industry in southern Chile

  Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies · 2018-08-29 · 23 citations

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  This article chronicles the long-standing conflict between the Mapuche people and the Chilean state since militarized colonization of Mapuche territory in the 1880s. The analysis focuses especially on a series of conflicts between Mapuche communities and Chilean-based multinational forest companies, which operate extensively in territory that the Mapuche claim. Given that state-initiated programs of restitution and reconciliation have been largely successful in addressing this problem, we ask wh…

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• Prácticas otras de conocimiento(s)

  Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales eBooks · 2018-05-01 · 15 citations

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  Esta obra colegiada tiene un encuentro luminoso con la liberación de los pueblos oprimidos. Su destino está trazado: va a convertirse en una obra de referencia y lo será cada vez más en la medida en que los años pasen. Es una obra de nuestro tiempo, en lo que nuestro tiempo ofrece de más genuina esperanza a los pueblos oprimidos, de más articulada visión de los retos de la liberación, de más consistente diseño de los caminos sentipensantes de la lucha. En resumen, es una obra de nuestro tiempo e…

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• In Praise of “Reckless Minds”

  Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 5 citations

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  The challenge, in sum, is to portray activist anthropology with a greater measure of self-reflection and acknowledged limits than the Barbados anthropologists were able to muster, while at the same time affirming their political vision, energy, and commitment. The process is demand from students, surely in response, at least in part, to the dire and increasingly polarized political conditions of the United States at early twenty-first century. The relative absence of contradiction in our portray…

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Frequent coauthors

• Randy Strong

  South Texas Veterans Health Care System

  25 shared

• H. J. Armbrecht

  Saint Louis University

  19 shared

• M. Wessels-Reiker

  American Physiological Society

  18 shared

• M. Moore

  California State University, Long Beach

  13 shared

• Shannon Speed

  6 shared

• Arlan Richardson

  University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

  6 shared

• Déborah Barry

  6 shared

• M. S. Buttrose

  Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

  4 shared

Labs

• Latin American & Iberian Studies ProgramPI

Awards & honors

• Fulbright Fellowship for research and teaching in Oaxaca, Me…

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