Ernesto Semán

Position

Associate Professor, Associate Professor

Affiliation

Publications
Academic monograph
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Academic article
Book review
Feature article
Interview
Popular scientific lecture
Academic lecture

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Academic writing:

Books, chapters, articles

Antipopulismo. Una historia argentina (Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI Editores, forthcoming May 2021)

"The Etymology of Despair in the Americas", International Labor and Working-Class History, October 2020, pp 1-8. doi:10.1017/S0147547920000241

"Populism is not in the air (but maybe it should be)". International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH), Cambridge University Press and Columbia University History Department, Volume 93, Spring 2018

Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017

“Populismo y Propiedad Privada: El Genoma de la Guerra Fría en América Latina” in Martín Plot (ed.), Destino Sudamericano. Ideas e Imágenes Políticas del Segundo Siglo Argentino y Americano. Buenos Aires: Editorial Universidad de Belgrano, 2010, pp. 153-176

“Neither/Nor. Mapping Latin American's Response to Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism” (with Martín Plot) Constellations, 14, no. 3 (2007): 86-111

“Political Dimensions of the Crisis” in Michael Cohen and Margarita Gutman (eds.), Argentina in Collapse. The Americas Debate. New York: The New School, 2002

Reviews

Review: Paula Canelo. La política secreta de la última dictadura argentina (1976-1983). Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2016. In Journal of Latin American Studies, (2017)

Review: Loris Zanatta, La internacional justicialista: Auge y ocaso de los sueños imperiales de Perón Translated by Carlos Catroppi. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2013. In Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 95, no. 4 (November 2015)

Review: Patrick J. Iber, “’Who Will Impose Democracy?’: Sacha Volman and the Contradictions of CIA Support for the Anticommunist Left in Latin America.” Diplomatic History 37:5 (November 2013: 995-1028. DOI: 10.1093/dh/dht041. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht041. In H-Diplo, No 472, Published on 16 July 2014. URL:  http://h-diplo.org/reviews/PDF/AR472.pdf

Review: Oscar Chamosa, The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955. In Labour/Le Travail 69 (Spring 2012)

Review: Mario Rapoport and Claudio Spiguel, Relaciones Tumultuosas. Estados Unidos y el Primer Peronismo. In Revista Contemporánea (Uruguay), 1, no 1 (2010): 209-211

Selected Writing:

Non Fiction:

Books

Hecho Burgués, País Maldito [The Bourgeois Fact, the Cursed Country]

Buenos Aires: Aurelia Rivera, 2016.

Educando a Fernando. Cómo se Construyó De la Rúa Presidente [Educating Fernando. How De la Rúa Became President], Buenos Aires: Editorial Planeta, 1999.

 

Chapters and media articles

"Joe Biden, el primer presidente post-panamericano", The Washington Post en Español, January 19, 2020.

"In Chile and Argentina, anti-populist politics is failing", The Financial Times, October 30, 2019.

"Los Juguetes no son tuyos," in Jordana Blejmar, Silvana Mandolessi and Mariana Eva Perez, eds. El Pasado Inasequible. Desaparecidos, hijos y combatientes en el arte y la literatura del nuevo milenio. Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, June 2018.

"Comparing Trump with Latin American Authoritarians Reveals a Dangerous Understanding of Democracy", The Washington Post, February 20, 2018.

"Democracy in the Americas, the Revolutionary Way," NACLA Report on the Americas, February 8, 2017. http://nacla.org/news/2017/02/09/democracy-americas-revolutionary-way

"La Startup Americana," Anfibia, Buenos Aires, September 25, 2016. http://www.revistaanfibia.com/ensayo/la-startup-americana/

"What Obama Should Know About Macri's Argentina," (with Gastón Chillier), The New York Times, March 23, 2016 https://nyti.ms/2l4CpRc

"The Taming of the Argentine Right," NACLA Report on the Americas, December 2, 2015. http://nacla.org/news/2015/12/02/taming-argentine-right

Introductions to "Destruction of the City of San Juan Provokes Unanimou Dismay," La Prensa, Argentina, 1944 & "The Confession," Página/12. Argentina, 1995. In Anya Schiffrin, ed. Global Muckraking: 100 years of investigative journalism from around the world. (New Press, New York, 2014)

"The Torture Consensus in U.S. Democracy," NACLA Report on the Americas, December 19, 2014. https://nacla.org/news/2014/12/19/torture-consensus-us-democracy

“(Des) Hacer Buenos Aires” (with Mark Healey) Le Monde Diplomatique (Argentina edition), February 2013

“Relaciones Peligrosas. Cultura y Populismo”[Dangerous Liasions: Culture and Populism] Le Monde Diplomatique (Argentina edition), May 2011

“Argentina’s Migration Solution” (with Gastón Chillier) Americas Quarterly, Spring 2011

“Down, Argentine Way” (with Mark Healey) American Prospect 13, no. 2 (Jan 2002)

“The Cost of Ortodoxy” (with Mark Healey) American Prospect 13, supplement (Feb 2002)

 

Fiction:

Books

Soy Un Bravo Piloto de la Nueva China [A Courageous Pilot of the New China]. Buenos Aires: Random House-Mondadori, 2011

Todo lo Sólido [All That Is Solid] Buenos Aires: Aurelia Rivera, 2007

La Última Cena de José Stalin [The Last Supper of Joseph Stalin] Buenos Aires: Aurelia Rivera, 2006

 

Stories

"Antebrazo," in Victoria Torres and Miguel Dalmaroni, eds., Golpes. Relatos y Memorias de la Dictadura. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 2016

"Mao," in Me lo llevaré a la sepultura (comp.) Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba), 2016