The Future of Hiding

Francisco Martínez is an anthropologist dealing with contemporary issues of material culture through ethnographic research. His work is known for its critical insights and experimental style. He was awarded with the Early Career Prize of the European Association of Social Anthropologists and currently works as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow at the University of Murcia, Spain.

The Future of Hiding demonstrates that the colonial character of extractivism is not that far past and not apart from modes of affiliation with the nation-state.

Giorgi Cheishvili, Tbilisi State University:

This original book transcends disciplinary boundaries to study topics ranging from colonialism to place-making, social organization, and identity formation.

Kiven Strohm, National University of Singapore:

Francisco Martínez craftly tells the stories of those lives that have refused visibility in the midst of post-socialist devaluations and demolitions.

Katie Kilroy-Marac, University of Toronto:

Methodologically innovative, theoretically sophisticated, and deeply evocative, modeling the very best of what ethnography has to offer.