Research interests

Dr. Kregg Hetherington is the Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Ethnography. His research specializes in experimental ethnographic practices and the politics of environment, infrastructure and the bureaucratic state. His recent book, The Government of Beans (Duke 2020) won three awards, including the Rachel Carson Book Prize from the Society for the Social Study of Science.

Kregg's long-term ethnographic work in Paraguay chronicles how small farmers caught in a sweeping agrarian transition have experienced that country's halting transition to democracy, showing how activists create new ways of thinking and practising government, which has led to two books, Guerrilla Auditors and the Government of Beans.

Kregg is also director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab, where he runs a collaborative project called Montreal Waterways, which aims to understand Montreal’s changing relationship with water as a defining feature of its environment and infrastructure. Since 2022, the lab leads a larger matrix of similar collaborative initiatives around North America, aiming to promote experimental and collaborative methods in anthropology and adjacent disciplines. 

He supervises graduate students working ethnographically in a wide range of areas, including environment and infrastructure studies, Science and Technology Studies, Latin American agrarian politics, and the ethnography of bureauc

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