Mario Blaser

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Mario Blaser is a scholar working on Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mario Blaser has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Anthropology, 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Mario Blaser's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 papers), Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (4 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers). Mario Blaser is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 papers), Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (4 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers). Mario Blaser collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Mario Blaser's co-authors include Marisol de la Cadena, Harvey A. Feit, William D. Coleman, Deborah McGregor, Paige West, Casper Bruun Jensen, Heather Anne Swanson, Atsuro Morita, Marianne Elisabeth Lien and Margaret J. Wiener and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, American Anthropologist and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Mario Blaser

24 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Ontological Conflicts and the Stories of Peoples in Spite... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2013 2012 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Ontological Conflicts and the Stories of Peoples in Spite of Europe
    2013 332 citations Mario Blaser Current Anthropology profile →
  2. Ontology and indigeneity: on the political ontology of heterogeneous assemblages
    2012 222 citations Mario Blaser Cultural Geographies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mario Blaser Canada 15 494 470 363 337 193 26 1.5k
Marisol de la Cadena United States 17 793 1.6× 824 1.8× 395 1.1× 669 2.0× 163 0.8× 49 2.3k
Zoe Todd Canada 10 544 1.1× 236 0.5× 514 1.4× 183 0.5× 217 1.1× 16 1.5k
Juanita Sundberg Canada 19 759 1.5× 227 0.5× 634 1.7× 372 1.1× 87 0.5× 35 1.8k
Beth A. Conklin United States 9 302 0.6× 603 1.3× 166 0.5× 207 0.6× 159 0.8× 19 1.2k
Sarah Hunt Canada 11 647 1.3× 222 0.5× 220 0.6× 196 0.6× 218 1.1× 14 1.3k
Sarah Wright Australia 25 926 1.9× 232 0.5× 688 1.9× 197 0.6× 307 1.6× 75 2.2k
Jay T. Johnson United States 20 477 1.0× 193 0.4× 374 1.0× 110 0.3× 468 2.4× 36 1.6k
Paul Nadasdy United States 12 369 0.7× 189 0.4× 270 0.7× 166 0.5× 344 1.8× 15 1.2k
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Canada 7 724 1.5× 203 0.4× 210 0.6× 195 0.6× 293 1.5× 14 1.7k
Marcia Langton Australia 18 473 1.0× 236 0.5× 156 0.4× 116 0.3× 190 1.0× 84 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Mario Blaser

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mario Blaser

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mario Blaser

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mario Blaser. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mario Blaser based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mario Blaser. Mario Blaser is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bessire, Lucas, Mario Blaser, David Bond, et al.. (2022). Humanos más que humanos y no humanos: intersecciones críticas en torno a la antropología y las ontologías. Repositorio Institucional (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana).
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Blaser, Mario. (2020). Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond. 1 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (2020). Reflexiones sobre la ontología política de los conflictos medioambientales. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 63–79. 14 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (2019). On the properly political (disposition for the) Anthropocene. Anthropological Theory. 19(1). 74–94. 20 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (2018). outra cosmopolítica é possível?. 10(2). 14–42. 2 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (2018). Doing and undoing Caribou/Atiku: diffractive and divergent multiplicities and their cosmopolitical orientations. Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society. 1(1). 47–64. 24 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario & Marisol de la Cadena. (2017). The Uncommons: An Introduction. Anthropologica. 59(2). 185–193. 66 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (2016). Is Another Cosmopolitics Possible?. Cultural Anthropology. 31(4). 545–570. 117 indexed citations
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Cadena, Marisol de la, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Mario Blaser, et al.. (2015). Anthropology and STS. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 5(1). 437–475. 34 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (2013). Ontological Conflicts and the Stories of Peoples in Spite of Europe. Current Anthropology. 54(5). 547–568. 332 indexed citations breakdown →
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Blaser, Mario, et al.. (2013). In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization. MacSphere (McMaster University). 43 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (2012). Ontology and indigeneity: on the political ontology of heterogeneous assemblages. Cultural Geographies. 21(1). 49–58. 222 indexed citations breakdown →
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Blaser, Mario, et al.. (2010). Indigenous peoples and autonomy : insights for a global age. 38 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (2010). Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond. 126 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (2009). From Progress to Risk: Development, Participation, and Post-Disciplinary Techniques of Control. Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d études du développement. 28(3-4). 439–454. 2 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (2009). POLITICAL ONTOLOGY. Cultural Studies. 23(5-6). 873–896. 173 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario, et al.. (2008). The "Lettered City" and the Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges in Latin America. Anthropological Quarterly. 81(1). 59–94. 45 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (2004). Indígenas del Chaco paraguayo: ¿Proyectos de vida o proyectos de desarrollo?. 39(1). 193–229. 1 indexed citations
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Blaser, Mario. (1994). El emerger de otras voces: discursos globales y textos locales. Repositorio Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (Universidad de Buenos Aires). 21(1). 83–97.

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