PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Flynn A.U. 2025. Pathways to Utopia: Time and Transformation in the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Flynn A.U. (ed.) 2024. Forty Years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives. London: Routledge.
Flynn A.U., Clavo, M, Lemos, B, and F. Portocarrero. (eds.) Forthcoming 2026. Unmaking to Make: Art as decolonising practice in Latin America, future, past and present. London: University College London Press.
Bell, L., Flynn A.U. & P. O’Hare. 2022. Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press
Bell, L., Flynn A.U. & P. O’Hare. 2023. Tomar Forma, Creando Mundos: Editoriales Cartoneras en América Latina. San José: Costa Rica National University Press [Translated from English]
Flynn A.U. & L. Araujo. (eds.) 2016. Claire Fontaine: em vista de uma prática ready-made. São Paulo, Brazil: GLAC Edições Textolatras
Flynn A.U. & J. Tinius. (eds.) 2015. Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The transformative potential of performance. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Flynn A.U. (ed.) 2024. Forty Years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives. London: Routledge.
Flynn A.U., Clavo, M, Lemos, B, and F. Portocarrero. (eds.) Forthcoming 2026. Unmaking to Make: Art as decolonising practice in Latin America, future, past and present. London: University College London Press.
Bell, L., Flynn A.U. & P. O’Hare. 2022. Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press
Bell, L., Flynn A.U. & P. O’Hare. 2023. Tomar Forma, Creando Mundos: Editoriales Cartoneras en América Latina. San José: Costa Rica National University Press [Translated from English]
Flynn A.U. & L. Araujo. (eds.) 2016. Claire Fontaine: em vista de uma prática ready-made. São Paulo, Brazil: GLAC Edições Textolatras
Flynn A.U. & J. Tinius. (eds.) 2015. Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The transformative potential of performance. London: Palgrave Macmillan
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
Cozzolino, F, Flynn, A.U, Borea, G. Forthcoming 2025. Re-worlding Relations: Anthropology and artistic practices. Special issue of Ateliers d’anthropologie 56.
Blanes, R, Flynn, A.U, Maskens, M and J. Tinius. 2016. Micro-utopias: Connections in anthropology, art, relationality and creativity. Special issue of Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia 5(1).
Blanes, R, Flynn, A.U, Maskens, M and J. Tinius. 2016. Micro-utopias: Connections in anthropology, art, relationality and creativity. Special issue of Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia 5(1).
BOOK CHAPTERS
Flynn A.U. 2026. Futures uninscribed: Contemporary Indigenous artistic practice. In ‘Unmaking to Make: Art as decolonising practice in Latin America, future, past and present’. Flynn A.U., Clavo, M, Lemos, B, and F. Portocarrero. (eds.). London: UCL Press
Flynn A.U., Clavo, M, Lemos, B, & F. Portocarrero. 2026. Introduction: Artistic practice and the unmaking of coloniality. In ‘Unmaking to Make: Art as decolonising practice in Latin America, future, past and present’. Flynn A.U., Clavo, M, Lemos, B, and F. Portocarrero. (eds.). London: UCL Press
Flynn A.U. 2024. Introduction: Relations and the social in movement. In ‘Forty years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives’. Flynn A.U (ed.). London: Routledge
Flynn A.U. 2024. From demonization to canonization: the Landless Workers Movement’s shifting relationship to the city. In ‘Forty years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives’. Flynn A.U (ed.). London: Routledge
Flynn A.U. 2022. Relational Art. In ‘The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology’. Hilary Callan and Simon Coleman (eds.). London: Wiley
Flynn A.U., Bell, L., & O’Hare, P. 2021. Exposições Cartoneras: Uma proposta artística para reordenar o social. In ‘Práticas Literárias e Editoriais: Marcadores Sociais e Territórios Simbólicos’. Amaral, L., Borges Leão, A. and José de Souza Muniz Jr. (eds.). Bragança Paulista, Brazil: Margem da Palavra
Flynn A.U. & N. Quintana. 2021. Reference to gesture: Methods between art and anthropology in the project Concrete Mirror. In L'invention des formes à l'ère de la globalisation. Chercheurs et artistes en dialogue, Ouédraogo, J. and A. Lefebvre, (eds.). Milan: Éditions Mimésis
Flynn A.U. 2020. On anthropology, on curation. In ‘The Anthropologist as Curator’. Sansi, R. (ed.). London, England: Bloomsbury
Flynn A.U. 2018. Contemporary art in the Global South: Occupation // participation // knowledge. In An Anthropology of Contemporary Art: Practices, Markets, and Collectors. Fillitz, T. and Van der Grijp, P. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury
Flynn A.U., Clavo, M, Lemos, B, & F. Portocarrero. 2026. Introduction: Artistic practice and the unmaking of coloniality. In ‘Unmaking to Make: Art as decolonising practice in Latin America, future, past and present’. Flynn A.U., Clavo, M, Lemos, B, and F. Portocarrero. (eds.). London: UCL Press
Flynn A.U. 2024. Introduction: Relations and the social in movement. In ‘Forty years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives’. Flynn A.U (ed.). London: Routledge
Flynn A.U. 2024. From demonization to canonization: the Landless Workers Movement’s shifting relationship to the city. In ‘Forty years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives’. Flynn A.U (ed.). London: Routledge
Flynn A.U. 2022. Relational Art. In ‘The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology’. Hilary Callan and Simon Coleman (eds.). London: Wiley
Flynn A.U., Bell, L., & O’Hare, P. 2021. Exposições Cartoneras: Uma proposta artística para reordenar o social. In ‘Práticas Literárias e Editoriais: Marcadores Sociais e Territórios Simbólicos’. Amaral, L., Borges Leão, A. and José de Souza Muniz Jr. (eds.). Bragança Paulista, Brazil: Margem da Palavra
Flynn A.U. & N. Quintana. 2021. Reference to gesture: Methods between art and anthropology in the project Concrete Mirror. In L'invention des formes à l'ère de la globalisation. Chercheurs et artistes en dialogue, Ouédraogo, J. and A. Lefebvre, (eds.). Milan: Éditions Mimésis
Flynn A.U. 2020. On anthropology, on curation. In ‘The Anthropologist as Curator’. Sansi, R. (ed.). London, England: Bloomsbury
Flynn A.U. 2018. Contemporary art in the Global South: Occupation // participation // knowledge. In An Anthropology of Contemporary Art: Practices, Markets, and Collectors. Fillitz, T. and Van der Grijp, P. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury
Flynn A.U. & Lira I. 2017. The postcontemporary open field. In Imagination, Interiors, Surfaces. Hodson, E (ed.). Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press
Flynn A.U. 2015. Re-imagining political subjectivities: Relationality, reflexivity and performance in Rural Brazil in Flynn A & Tinius J ‘Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The transformative potential of performance’. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Flynn A.U. and J. Tinius. 2015. Reflecting on Political Performance: Introducing Critical Perspectives in Flynn A & Tinius J ‘Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The transformative potential of performance’. London: Palgrave Macmillan
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Flynn A.U. 2021. Once upon a time in Utopia: Bergson, temporality and the remaking of social movement futures. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 29(1): 156-173. Special issue ‘Utopian Confluences. Anthropological mappings of generative politics’.
Bell, L, Flynn A.U & P O’Hare. 2020. Towards Trans-Formal Methods for Qualitative Research. Qualitative Research. Online first, May 6, 2020
Flynn A.U. & Bell, L. 2019. Returning to Form: Anthropology, Art and a Trans-Formal Methodological Approach. Anthrovision 7(1): 1-24
Flynn A.U. 2018. Reconfiguração na cidade: Arte e ocupação no Hotel Cambridge em São Paulo. Revista Plural 25(2): 20-45
Flynn A.U. 2018. Aesthetic gestures, moral frameworks: Performing the right to a home in the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) of Brazil. Critique of Anthropology 38(2): 172-187. Special issue ‘Moral economies of housing’.
Flynn A.U. 2016. Subjectivity and the obliteration of meaning: Contemporary art | activism | social movement politics. Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia 5(1): 59-77.
Blanes, R. Flynn A.U. Maskens M. & J. Tinius. 2016. Introduction to Micro-utopias: Connections in anthropology, art, relationality and creativity. Special issue of Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia 5(1): 5-20.
Martin K. & Flynn A.U. 2015. Engagement and academia: A zero-sum game? Anthropology Today 31(1): 12-14
Flynn A.U. 2015. Transformation and ‘human values’ in the Landless Workers’ Movement of Brazil. Ethnos 80(1): 45-70
Flynn A.U. 2013. 'Bongo Bongo' and reconfiguring the 'other'. Anthropology Today 29(5): 1-2.
Flynn A.U. Calvo Gonzalez E. & M. Mendes. 2013. Whiter shades of pale: ‘Coloring in’ Machado de Assis and race in contemporary Brazil. Latin American Research Review 48(3): 3-24
Flynn A.U. 2013. Mística, myself and I: Beyond cultural politics in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement. Critique of Anthropology 33(2): 168–192
Flynn A.U. 2008. The Mechanics of Legitimation: An Aristotelian Perspective on Environmental Narratives. Conservation and Society 6(4): 308–319
Bell, L, Flynn A.U & P O’Hare. 2020. Towards Trans-Formal Methods for Qualitative Research. Qualitative Research. Online first, May 6, 2020
Flynn A.U. & Bell, L. 2019. Returning to Form: Anthropology, Art and a Trans-Formal Methodological Approach. Anthrovision 7(1): 1-24
Flynn A.U. 2018. Reconfiguração na cidade: Arte e ocupação no Hotel Cambridge em São Paulo. Revista Plural 25(2): 20-45
Flynn A.U. 2018. Aesthetic gestures, moral frameworks: Performing the right to a home in the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) of Brazil. Critique of Anthropology 38(2): 172-187. Special issue ‘Moral economies of housing’.
Flynn A.U. 2016. Subjectivity and the obliteration of meaning: Contemporary art | activism | social movement politics. Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia 5(1): 59-77.
Blanes, R. Flynn A.U. Maskens M. & J. Tinius. 2016. Introduction to Micro-utopias: Connections in anthropology, art, relationality and creativity. Special issue of Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia 5(1): 5-20.
Martin K. & Flynn A.U. 2015. Engagement and academia: A zero-sum game? Anthropology Today 31(1): 12-14
Flynn A.U. 2015. Transformation and ‘human values’ in the Landless Workers’ Movement of Brazil. Ethnos 80(1): 45-70
Flynn A.U. 2013. 'Bongo Bongo' and reconfiguring the 'other'. Anthropology Today 29(5): 1-2.
Flynn A.U. Calvo Gonzalez E. & M. Mendes. 2013. Whiter shades of pale: ‘Coloring in’ Machado de Assis and race in contemporary Brazil. Latin American Research Review 48(3): 3-24
Flynn A.U. 2013. Mística, myself and I: Beyond cultural politics in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement. Critique of Anthropology 33(2): 168–192
Flynn A.U. 2008. The Mechanics of Legitimation: An Aristotelian Perspective on Environmental Narratives. Conservation and Society 6(4): 308–319
BOOK REVIEWS
Flynn A.U. 2016. Review of Angelique Haugerud’s ‘No Billionaire Left Behind: Satirical Activism in America’, in American Ethnologist
Flynn A.U. 2015. Review of Frank Korom’s ‘The Anthropology of Performance: A Reader’ in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
SHORT ARTICLES
Flynn A.U 2024. Authoring histories, manifesting futures. Terremoto. Jan 21
Flynn A.U. 2017. Precarious publishing in Latin America. Allegra lab. May 16.
Flynn A.U. 2017. Precarious publishing in Latin America. Allegra lab. May 16.
Flynn A.U. 2015. Para um Sul Global definido por práticas. Select. October 28.
Flynn A.U. & J. Tinius. 2015. ‘State of the art relations: New approaches to the anthropology of art’. The British Academy Blog. March 12.
Flynn A.U. 2013. ‘Bongo Bongo’, racist vans and the act of ‘othering’. The New Internationalist. September 20.