Tamar Blickstein is a postdoctoral researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) and the Affective Societies Research Center of Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).  She is currently finalizing her Marie Słodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship project “Landscapes of Loss: Mapping the Affective Experience of Deforestation Among Diverse Social Groups of the South American Gran Chaco.”  She has published and conducted ethnographic research on settler-colonial modes of dispossession, racialization, migration, and contested memory politics in Latin America and Europe. She holds a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from Columbia University, and master's from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and from Sciences-Po (Paris).