Sean T. Mitchell

• Forthcoming “Rot Politics and the Cunning of Anti-Corruption: The Polysemy of Corruption and the Emergence of a Cross-class Right in Brazil,” (co-authored with Thayane Brêtas) in Rio as Method, edited by Paul Amar. Durham: Duke University Press.
  

• 2022. “Mobility Interrupted: A New Framework for Understanding Anti-Left Sentiment Among Brazil’s ‘Once-Rising Poor.’” (co-authored with Benjamin Junge, Charles Klein, and, and Matthew Spearly) Latin American Politics and Society, November, 1–30.
  

• 2022. “What Happened to the ‘New Middle Class’? The 2016 BORP (Brazil’s Once-Rising Poor) Survey.” (co-authored with Benjamin Junge, Charles Klein, and David de Micheli) Latin American Research Review 57 (3): 573–89.
  

• 2021 “Cruel Pessimism: The Affect of Anti-Corruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class.” In Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil, edited by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrin, and Lucia Cantero. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

• 2021 “Beyond Ethnographic Populisms and Performative Nationalisms: Notes on the Anthropology of the Far Right.” Social Anthropology 29 (2).

• 2018. “Empire as Accusation, Denial, and Structure: The Social Life of US Power at Brazil’s Spaceport.” In Ethnographies of U.S. Empire. John Collins and Carole McGranahan, eds. Durham: Duke University Press.
  

• 2018. "Naming Brazil’s Previously Poor: 'New Middle Class' as an Economic, Political, and Experiential Category." (co-authored with Charles Klein and Benjamin Junge). Economic Anthropology. 5(1) (Winner of the 2018 Sergio Buarque de Holanda Prize from the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section).
• 2017.  “Introduction: Afro-Brazilian Citizenship and the Politics of History.” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal. 10(2): 109-113.
• 2017. “Whitening and Racial Ambiguity: Racialization and Ethnoracial Citizenship in Contemporary Brazil.” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 10(2): 114-130.
• 2016. "Countdown to an Impasse: Expertise and the Mediation of Inequality at Brazil's Alcântara Launch Center." Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Paper Series. 413.
• 2015. "American Dreams and Brazilian Racial Democracy: The Making of Race and Class in Brazil and the United States." Focaal—Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 73: 41–54 (Special Issue: "E.P. Thompson, Anthropology, and Twenty-First Century Capitalism").
• 2013. Space, Sovereignty, Inequality: Interpreting the Explosion of Brazil’s VLS Rocket. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 18(3): 395–412. (Special Issue: "Technoscience in Las Américas: STS Engagements in Latin American Anthropology").
• 2010. Paranoid Styles of Nationalism after the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon. In Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, ed. John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell, and Jeremy Walton, 89-104. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Review Essays

• 2016. “Perspectives on Violence, Neoliberalism, and Security in 21st Century Megacities.” Review essay of: "The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil," by Erika Robb Larkins and  "The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism," by Paul Amar, in Theoretical Criminology 20 (4): 507–11.
• 2006. “New Histories of Afro-Descendant and Indigenous Latin America.”  Review essay of: "Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000," by George Reid Andrews and "Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America," edited by Matthew Restall,” in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 11.2: 515-18.