Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón facts for kids

Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón was born on January 16, 1954, in Salta, Argentina. She is a well-known Argentine expert in sociology and anthropology. These fields study how people live in groups and how cultures work.

Sonia studied social work at the Catholic University of Santa Maria. She also earned advanced degrees in sociology and anthropology from other universities, including the University of Seville.

She has held important roles at the National University of Salta. She was the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. She also directed a special program about social policy. For many years, she has worked with groups like the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP). She helps them understand and write about poverty.

About Her Work

Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón is famous for her studies on poverty. She looks closely at how people live in cities, especially in different regions. She works as a professor at the National University of Salta. There, she teaches and leads a program focused on social policy.

Understanding Poverty

Her research covers many important topics. She studies Argentina's social policies and history. She also looks at how poverty has developed in Latin America over time. Her work helps us understand how governments and societies create inequality.

Sonia has led many research projects for important organizations. These include CIUNSa, CONICET, AECI, and UNESCO. Her work helps shape how we think about poverty and development.

Her Books and Writings

Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón has written many books and articles. Here are some of her important works:

• Trabajo y producción de la pobreza en Latinoamérica y el Caribe: estructuras, discursos y actores (2005)
• Pobreza y desarrollo en América Latina. El caso de Argentina (2008)
  • This book explores poverty as a problem created by society. It looks at how poverty affects Latin America. It also reviews social policies from the early 1900s. These policies aimed to help people who were poor.
• La producción de la pobreza masiva y su persistencia en el pensamiento social latinoamericano (2008)
• La transformación de las instituciones de reciprocidad y control, del don al capital social y de la "biopolítica" a la "focopolítica” (2002)
• Focopolitica y gubernamentalidad neoliberal, las políticas sociales (2008)
• Neoliberal and Neo-Colonial Governmentality, social policies and Strategies against poverty (from the North,), alternatives from the South (The case of South America and the Caribbean)
• Biopolíticas neoliberales y focopolítica en América Latina, los programas de transferencia condicionadas
• Inequality and social policies: between OECD view and Neo colonialism and coloniality of the present
• Representations of poverty in the hegemonic press in Argentina: Clarín, La Nación and La Voz del Interior
• The 'fight against poverty' and Human Development discourse in the context of International Cooperation for " development

See also

In Spanish: Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón para niños