Dr Patrick O'Hare

Dr Patrick O'Hare

Lecturer in Social Anthropology

Email
po35@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 23, School 5
Location
United Colleges
Office hours
Tuesday noon-1pm

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Research areas

Dr Patrick O'Hare is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (FLF) in the Department of Social Anthropology. His research interests centre on recycling economies in Latin America and include the themes of labour, waste, recycling, infrastructure, and plastics. He has conducted research in Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, and the UK.

Dr O'Hare's current UKRI-funded research project is entitled 'Transforming Plastics into Solidarity: Ethical Vertical Integration and Binational Recycling' and centres on intersections between social and circular economies in the Uruguayan and Argentine plastics industries.

After receiving his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 2017, he held research positions at the Universities of Surrey, Manchester, and Cambridge. He forms part of both the AHRC-funded Cartonera Publishing Research Project, focused on the cardboard book-making publishing phenomenon in Latin America and the UKRI-funded Cambridge Creative Circular Plastics Centre. At the University of Manchester he held an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) research fellowship.

PhD supervision

  • FayeÌýBamford
  • ConnorÌýJennings

Selected publications

  • Open access
    O'Hare, P. & Irvine, R., 24 Mar 2026, In: Social Analysis. 69, 3, p. 1-23

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Hope, J., Bastia, T., Cox, R., Jenkins, K., Lemanski, C., Mendo, T., Meth, P., Moeller, N., Okafor-Yarwood, I., O'Hare, P., Ray, C. & Williams, G., 28 Jul 2025, The Routledge handbook of field research. Hammett, D. & Holmes, N. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 129-138 10 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • O'Hare, P., 2025, Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America : As it Was in the Beginning?. Geraghty, N. & Bradbury, P. (eds.). London : University of London Press, p. 53-82 29 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Open access
    O'Hare, P. (Editor) & Rams, D. (Editor), 25 Jan 2024, London : Bloomsbury Academic. 235 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

  • O'Hare, P. & Rams, D., Jan 2024, London : Bloomsbury Academic. 248 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

  • Open access
    O'Hare, P. & Rams, D., 25 Jan 2024, Circular economies in an unequal world: waste, renewal and the effects of global circularity. O'Hare, P. & Rams, D. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 1-21 21 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Open access
    O'Hare, P., 25 Jan 2024, Circular economies in an unequal world: waste, renewal and the effects of global circularity. O'Hare, P. & Rams, D. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 69-88 20 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Open access
    O’Hare, P. & Nøklebye, E., 2024, In: Cambridge Prisms: Plastics. 2, 12 p., e12.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty, Kortsen, K., O'Hare, P., Arp, H. P., Nøklebye, E. & Shaver, M. P., 16 Oct 2023, 4 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  • Open access
    Bell, L., Flynn, A. U., O'Hare, P. & Oliveira, J., 9 Oct 2023, In: Caracol. 26, p. 235-290 56 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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