Piergiorgio received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at University College London in 2011. His research focuses on indigeneity, property and forest governance. His research has appeared in journals, such as American Ethnologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Ethnos and Anthropological Quarterly. He is the author of Tierras Ancestrales, Disputas Contemporáneas: Pertenencia y Demandas Territoriales en la Sociedad Mapuche Rural and co-editor of two edited volumes (Tecnologías en el Margen: Relaciones Humano-Materiales en América Latina and Ecopolíticas Globales: Medioambiente, Bienestar y Poder, forthcoming). Piergiorgio’s forthcoming book, Sentient Lands: Indigeneity, Property and Political Imagination in Neoliberal Chile (University of Arizona Press), draws on long term collaborative research on Mapuche land claims in southern Chile.