Eduardo Romero Dianderas

Eduardo Romero Dianderas is a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southern California’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities. He holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University (2022) and specializes in the study of media technologies, technical infrastructures, and global environmental governance in Latin America. His book manuscript, Calculating Amazonia: the politics of calculation in the age of climate change and biodiversity loss, examines how technical knowledge about Peru’s Amazonian rainforests is rearticulated today in the context of the global environmental crisis. Drawing on 24 months of intensive ethnographic and archival fieldwork and 15 years of experience conducting research in Peru’s Amazonian rainforests, Calculating Amazonia traces how different practices and objects of technical calculation become unexpected terrains of political struggle at a time when standardized calculative procedures, digital innovations and legal reforms are changing the conditions upon which tropical rainforest governance is conducted at different scales. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Explorer’s Club. His research has been published in American Ethnologist, Development, and it is forthcoming in Cultural Anthropology.