Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón

Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón (16 January 1954, Salta) is an Argentine sociologist and anthropologist. She earned a bachelor's degree in social work from the Catholic University of Santa Maria, and a master's degree in Development Sociology from the National University of Cordoba. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Seville in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Alvarez Leguizamón was the University of Salta as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and as the Director of the Masters programme in Social Policy.

Trabajo y producción de la pobreza en Latinoamérica y el Caribe: estructuras, discursos y actores (2005) Pobreza y desarrollo en América Latina. El caso de Argentina (2008) This book focuses on poverty as a socially constructed problem and analyzes it with respect to Latin America. It includes reviews on social policies, focusing on hygiene and development, that were implemented in the former half of the 20th century that were meant to aid the poor.

La producción de la pobreza masiva y su persistencia en el pensamiento social latinoamericano en Cimadamore y Cattani (CLACSO Co ediciones, Siglo del Hombre Editores) La transformación de las instituciones de reciprocidad y control, del don al capital social y de la "biopolítica" a la "focopolítica” (2002) Focopolitica y gubernamentalidad neoliberal, las políticas sociales en Bertololotto y Lastra “Políticas públicas y pobreza en el escenario post 2002” (2008) Neoliberal and Neo-Colonial Governmentality, social policies and Strategies against poverty (from the North,), alternatives from the South (The case of South America and the Caribbean) en prensa en Puyana & Samwel “Strategies Against Poverty: Designs from the North and Alternatives from the South” Biopolíticas neoliberales y focopolítica en América Latina, los programas de transferencia condicionadas en prensa en Barba Inequality and social policies: between OECD view and Neo colonialism and coloniality of the present Representations of poverty in the hegemonic press in Argentina: Clarín, La Nación and La Voz del Interior The 'fight against poverty' and Human Development discourse in the context of International Cooperation for " development