#  Alex Fattal 

 

 



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Alex Fattal received a PhD in Anthropology as well as a secondary field in Critical Media Practice from Harvard University in 2014. His book manuscript, Guerrilla Marketing: Information War and the Demobilization of FARC Rebels, examines the way the Colombian state deploys elaborate marketing campaigns and targeted intelligence operations to urge guerrillas to abandon the armed struggle. Based on two years of ethnographic research, the book illuminates the structures of surveillance and spectacle that undergird Colombia’s armed conflict, and theorizes the intersection of capitalism and counterinsurgency. He is also a videographer and photographer whose projects have featured in film festivals, art galleries, and advocacy settings. As a postdoctoral fellow he will polish his book manuscript and edit a documentary about former combatants from the FARC. The documentary was filmed in a truck transformed into a giant camera obscura. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, the U.S. Institute for Peace, and Fulbright IIE; and published by American Ethnologist, Anthropological Quarterly, Public Books, and Sensate. For more information, see his [personal](http://alfattal.wix.com/alexfattal) and [academic](https://harvard.academia.edu/AlexFattal) websites.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [Anthropology](/discipline/anthropology) [Film & Media Studies](/discipline/media-studies)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2014 - 2015](/fellowship-year/2014-2015)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)