Daniel Chavez

Daniel Chavez

Daniel Chavez is a Uruguayan anthropologist specialising in Latin American politics and urban social and political movements. With an intimate knowledge of Latin American left politics and an advisor to various local governments on participatory local democracy, he is also editor of the La nueva izquierda en América Latina: sus orígenes y trayectoria futura (New Left in Latin America: its origins and future, with Patrick Barrett and Cesar García (Grupo Editorial Norma, 2005)  

Before moving to Europe he had worked for almost a decade for the United Federation of Mutual-Aid Housing Cooperatives (FUCVAM). Daniel currently co-ordinates the New TNI Politics Programme, in co-operation with Hilary Wainwright. He is also author of The Left in the City: Participatory Local Governments in Latin America with Benjamin Goldfrank (LAB, 2001).

Role
Type of author: 
Fellow
Role/Title: 

TNI New Politics Programme Coordinator

Expertise
Areas of expertise: 
Left politics and emancipatory political thinking in Latin America; Chavez and Venezuela; participatory urban management, planning and governance; new social movements; public services reforms and alternatives to privatisation.
Languages spoken: 

English, Spanish

Contact
Contact details: 

Telephone: + 31 20 662 66 08
Email: chavez AT tni.org

Location: 

Location

Netherlands
52° 22' 25.6836" N, 4° 53' 27.366" E