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Dr. Maximiliano Marentes

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  • Discipline:

    Sociology

  • University:

    Universidad Nacional de General San Martín – Buenos Aires

  • Country:

    Argentina

Biography: Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Assistant Professor of Research Seminar in the Sociology Degree at Interdisciplinary School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (IDAES-UNSAM), where he also is the Academic Coordinator of the Ph.D. in Sociology Program. Postdoctoral researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). Since his postgraduate studies, he has been researching love among gay men. He has published on gay love stories in contemporary cultural productions in Argentina; the specificities of love among gay men; how this feeling is intertwined with other realms of life, such as education, politics, and work; and the connection between dating apps and emotional engagement. He has recently started a research agenda on LGBTIQ+ families.

Working title of research proposal: “Pragmatic love. Regimes of stabilization of the couple-network among gay men”.

Selected Publications:

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    1. Godoy, S. and Marentes, M. (2022). Hacia una sociología feminista: la propuesta de Arlie Russell Hochschild. [Toward a feminist sociology: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s approaches]. In Cuestiones de Sociología, N° 27 In press.

    2. Marentes, M (2022). “¿Muy politizados?”: perfiles de involucramiento político de varones gays del Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, Argentina [“So much politicized?”: profiles of political involvement of gay men living in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina]. In: Cuadernos de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. N° 61, in press.

    3. Marentes, M. (2022). Amor pragmático: regímenes amorosos en varones gays argentinos [Pragmatic love: Regimes of love among Argentinean gay men]. In Revista Mexicana de Sociología, vol. 84, N° 4, pp. 877-905.

    4. Marentes, M. (2022). Seducir, levantar, estabilizar: amor y política entre varones gays argentinos [Seducing, hooking-up, stabilizing: love and politics among Argentinean gay men]. In: Debates En Sociología, vol. 54, pp. 213-247.

    5. Marentes, M. (2022). «Lo tomo con pinzas»: Elementos de teoría queer para estudiar sociológicamente el amor gay [«I take It with a Grain of Salt»: Queer Theory Elements for a Sociological Study of Gay Love]. In: REVIISE, Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, vol. 19, N°19, pp. 9-20.

    6. Marentes, M. (2021). Conocerse como proceso. Inicios de las historias de amor de varones gays en producciones culturales argentinas [Meeting as a Process: Early Love Stories of Gay Males in Argentine Cultural Productions]. In: El Ágora USB, N° 21, vol. 1, pp. 186-208.

    7. Marentes, M.* and Pannelli, E. (2021). Acosos, apoyos y amores: en los pliegues de las memorias escolares de varones gays del Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, Argentina [Bullying, Support and Love: in the Folds of School Memories of Gay Men from the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina]. In: Cuadernos Inter.c.a.mbio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe, N° 19, vol. 1, e48179.

    8. Pereyra, S. and Marentes, M. (2019). Distance and Familiarity in Political Talk in Argentina. In When Citizens Talk About Politics. Eds: Saunders, C. and Klandermans, B. London, Routledge, pp. 173-191

    9. Marentes, M. (2019). El consumo de la realidad amorosa gay: pensando al amor en situación [Consuming gay love reality: analyzing love in act]. In: O Público e o Privado, vol. 34, pp. 189-214.

    10. Marentes, M. (2017). Gay love in two Argentinean soap operas. Between the reproduction of and the opposition to heteronormativity. In: Cuadernos.Info, vol. 41, pp. 141-154.

     

Areas of Expertise:

1. Sociology of love
2. Qualitative methodologies
3. Pragmatic sociologies
4. Sexual diversity
5. Social studies on families

Current Position(s):

1. Assistant Professor, Bachelor in Sociology, Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (IDAES-UNSAM)
2. Academic Coordinator, PhD in Sociology Program, Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (IDAES-UNSAM)
3. Postdoctoral Researcher, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

Past Position(s)

  1. Postdoctoral Scholar at Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Technische Univeristät Berlin, within the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability postdoctoral scholarship. Funding: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) – April to September 2022.
  2. Assistant Professor of History and Politics and Work and Society at the Transition Year Program, Universidad de Buenos Aires (CBC-UBA) – 2013 to 2022
  3. Doctoral Scholar, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), at Área de Salud y Población, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (IIGG-FSOC-UBA) – 2015 to 2020.
  4. Visiting Scholar at Universität Kassel, exchange program for postgraduate students between UniKassel and IDAES/UNSAM. Funding: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) – April to August 2017

Prizes & Awards:

1. VIII Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists | International Sociological Association (ISA) – One of the three winners (2021)
2. National Doctoral Dissertation in Social Sciences Award, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and EUDEBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires Press) – Winner (2021)
3. “The theses after the theses”, competition between Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology graduates, IDEAS/UNSAM. One of the winners (2022).

Memberships & Networks:

1. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
2. International Sociological Association (ISA)
3. European Sociological Association (ESA)
4. Laboratorio Iberoamericano para el Estudio Sociohistórico de las Sexualidades (LIESS)
5. Núcleo de Estudios sobre Intimidades, Política y Sociedad (NESIPS), Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín