Eric H. Thomas is a doctoral student in sociocultural anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research focuses on political ecology and local responses to state development policies in Chilean Patagonia. He is currently working on a project that explores articulations of regional and national identity as they are constructed and negotiated among citizens working in the timber, aquaculture, and firewood industries in northern Patagonia. His work also explores the significance of collective memory as it is mobilized in state-citizen negotiations in post-dictatorship Chile. He lived in Santiago, Chile from 2012-2013 and returned to conduct fieldwork in Coyhaique and Puerto Aysén the summer of 2015. He received his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Hamilton College in 2009.
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