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Posocco, Silvia and Villérs, S. (2023) Falsificaciones: creación y disrupción en los Archivos de Adopciones Transnacionales de Guatemala a Europa. Revista del Museo de Antropología de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina 16 (2), pp. 381-394. ISSN 1852-060x.

Posocco, Silvia (2022) Sepur Zarco, Guatemala: ‘bodying forth’ and forensic aesthetics of witnessing in the courtroom and beyond. Feminist Anthropology 3 (1), pp. 12-27. ISSN 2643-7961.

Posocco, Silvia (2022) Harvesting life, mining death: adoption, surrogacy and forensics across borders. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 8 (1), pp. 1-19. ISSN 2380-3312.

Posocco, Silvia (2021) Field-defying political anthropologies. Condition humaine / Conditions politiques: International Journal of Political Anthropology 2 , ISSN 2742-9318.

Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia (2021) Archives, promises, values: forensic infrastructures in times of austerity. Critique of Anthropology 41 (1), pp. 3-20. ISSN 0308-275X.

Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia (2021) Arquivos, promessas, valores: Infraestruturas forenses em tempos de austeridade. Lugar Comun 59 (1), pp. 122-166. ISSN 1415-8604.

Jivraj, S. and Bakshi, S. and Posocco, Silvia (2020) Decolonial trajectories: praxes and challenges. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 22 (4), 451 -463. ISSN 1369-801X.

Chivalan Carrillo, M. and Posocco, Silvia (2020) Against extraction in Guatemala: multispecies strategies in vampiric times. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 22 (4), pp. 514-532. ISSN 1369-801X.

Posocco, Silvia (2019) (Re)Generar: Adoção transnacional e gestação por substituição em tempos de violência e crise. Lugar Comum (56), pp. 30-38. ISSN 1415-8604.

Boyce, P. and Engebretsen, E.L. and Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia (2018) A commitment to difference: an interview with Esther Newton. Sexualities 21 (5-6), pp. 951-969. ISSN 1363-4607.

Posocco, Silvia (2017) Life, death, ethnography: epistemologies and methods of the quasi-event. Qualitative Research Journal 17 (3), pp. 177-187. ISSN 1443-9883.

Boyce, P. and Engebretsen, E.L. and Posocco, Silvia (2017) Introduction: Anthropology’s Queer sensibilities. Sexualities 21 (5-6), pp. 843-852. ISSN 1363-4607.

Montenegro, M. and Pujol, J. and Posocco, Silvia (2017) Bordering, exclusions and necropolitics. Qualitative Research Journal 17 (3), pp. 142-154. ISSN 1443-9883.

Fotta, M. and Posocco, Silvia and Smith, F.D. (2016) Violence and affective states in contemporary Latin America. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 25 (2), pp. 167-177. ISSN 1356-9325.

Posocco, Silvia (2015) Substance, sign, and trace: performative analogies and technologies of enfleshment in the transnational adoption archives in Guatemala. Social & Cultural Geography 16 (5), pp. 567-584. ISSN 1464-9365.

Posocco, Silvia (2014) Expedientes: notas sobre la documentación, el Estado y la ley en los expedientes de adopción transnacional en Guatemala. Afin Grupo de Investigación Newsletter 58 , ISSN 2013-2956.

Haritaworn, J. and Kuntsman, A. and Posocco, Silvia (2013) Murderous inclusions. International Feminist Journal of Politics 15 (4), pp. 445-452. ISSN 1461-6742.

Haritaworn, J. and Kuntsman, A. and Posocco, Silvia and Povinelli, E. (2013) Obligation, social projects and queer politics: Elizabeth Povinelli in conversation with Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman and Silvia Posocco. International Feminist Journal of Politics 15 (3), pp. 454-464. ISSN 1461-6742.

Posocco, Silvia (2011) Expedientes: fissured legality and affective states in the transnational adoption archives in Guatemala. Law, Culture and the Humanities 7 (3), pp. 434-456. ISSN 1743-8721.

Posocco, Silvia (2011) Ethnography and incommensurability in the aftermath of insurgency. Cultural Dynamics 23 (1), pp. 57-71. ISSN 0921-3740.

Perrons, D. and Posocco, Silvia (2009) Globalising failures. Geoforum 40 (2), pp. 131-135. ISSN 0016-7185.

Posocco, Silvia (2008) The Empire of Love: review of Elizabeth Povinelli. Darkmatter: In The Ruins of Immperial Culture (3), ISSN 2041-3254.

Posocco, Silvia (2008) Zoning: environmental cosmopolitics in and around the Maya biosphere reserve, Petén, Guatemala. Nature and Culture 3 (2), pp. 206-224. ISSN 1558-6073.

Book Review

Posocco, Silvia (2018) Schechter, Kate (2014) Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire, Durham and London: Duke University Press. [Book Review]

Posocco, Silvia (2017) Butler, Judith (2015) Notes Towards A Performative Theory of Assembly, Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press. [Book Review]

Editorial/Introduction

Posocco, Silvia and Frosh, Stephen (2021) Psychosocial research in COVID-19 times: an introduction. [Editorial/Introduction]

Book Section

Posocco, Silvia and Villérs, S. (2024) Counterfeit: disruption and creation in the files of transnational adoptions from Guatemala to Europe. In: Cearns, J. and Beech, C. (eds.) Contraband Cultures: Reframing Smuggling across Latin America. London, UK: UCL Press, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9781800087248. (In Press)

Posocco, Silvia and McCallum, C. and Fotta, M. (2023) Introduction to the Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality. In: McCallum, C. and Posocco, Silvia and Fotta, M. (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (In Press)

Bakshi, S. and Semmalar, G. and Chivalán Carrillo, M. and Rage, R. and Aryakrishnan, R. and Posocco, Silvia and Jivraj, S. and Bakshi, S. (2022) Decolonial queer knowledges: aesthesis, memory and practice. In: Tate, S.A. and Gutiérrez Rodríguez, E. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Race and Gender. Palgrave, pp. 569-590. ISBN 9783030839468.

Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia (2021) Bioinformation worlds and futures: Introduction. In: Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia (eds.) Bioinformation Worlds and Futures. Routledge Studies in Anthropology. Routledge. ISBN 9780367409456.

Posocco, Silvia (2020) Curfew: sensing Post-politics, sensing the Undercommons. In: Mendes, A. and Cocco, G. (eds.) The Work of Lines. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Autografia, pp. 152-164. ISBN 9786555310000.

Franklin, S. and Boyce, P. and Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia (2019) Conceptuality in relation: Sarah Franklin in conversation with Silvia Posocco, Paul Boyce, and EJ Gonzalez-Polledo. In: Boyce, P. and Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia (eds.) Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments After Marilyn Strathern. Theorizing Ethnography: Concept, Context, Critique. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138230989.

Posocco, Silvia (2019) Postplurality: An Ethnographic Tableau. In: Boyce, P. and Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia (eds.) Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments after Marilyn Strathern. Theorizing Ethnography. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138230989.

Boyce, P. and Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia (2019) Queering knowledge: an introduction. In: Boyce, P. and Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia (eds.) Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments After Marilyn Strathern. Theorizing Ethnography: Concept, Context, Critique. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138230989.

Bakshi, S. and Jivraj, S. and Posocco, Silvia (2016) (Decolonizing) the ear of the other: subjectivity, ethics and politics in question. In: Bakshi, S. and Jivraj, S. and Posocco, Silvia (eds.) Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions. Oxford, UK: Counterpress.

Bakshi, S. and Jivraj, S. and Posocco, Silvia (2016) Introduction - decolonizing sexualities: transnational perspectives, critical interventions. In: Bakshi, S. and Jivraj, S. and Posocco, Silvia (eds.) Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions. Oxford, UK: Counterpress.

Posocco, Silvia (2016) (Decolonizing) The ear of the other: subjectivity, ethics and politics in question. In: Bakshi, S. and Jivraj, S. and Posocco, Silvia (eds.) Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions. Oxford, UK: Counterpress, pp. 249-263. ISBN 9781910761021.

Haritaworn, J. and Kuntsman, A. and Posocco, Silvia (2014) Introduction: queer necropolitics. In: Haritaworn, J. and Kuntsman, A. and Posocco, Silvia (eds.) Queer Necropolitics. Social Justice. Oxford, UK: Routledge, pp. 1-28. ISBN 9780415644761.

Posocco, Silvia (2014) On the queer necropolitics of transnational adoption in Guatemala. In: Haritaworn, J. and Kuntsman, A. and Posocco, Silvia (eds.) Queer Necropolitics. Social Justice. Oxford, UK: Routledge, pp. 72-90. ISBN 9780415644761.

Lamble, Sarah (2014) Queer investments in punishment: sexual citizenship, social movements and the expanding carceral state. In: Haritaworn, J. and Kuntsman, A. and Posocco, Silvia (eds.) Queer Necropolitics. Social Justice. Oxford, UK: Routledge, pp. 151-171. ISBN 9780415644761.

Posocco, Silvia (2012) Gender identity. In: Evans, M. and Williams, C. (eds.) Gender: The Key Concepts. Routledge Key Guides. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415669610.

Palacios, Margarita and Posocco, Silvia (2011) War and the politics of sexual violence. In: Seidman, S. and Fischer, N. and Meeks, C. (eds.) Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415781251.

Posocco, Silvia (2010) Female masculinity. In: Ritzer, G. and Ryan, M. (eds.) Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781405185329.

Posocco, Silvia (2006) Female masculinity. In: Ritzer, G. (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, pp. 1657-1658. ISBN 9781405124331.

Posocco, Silvia (2004) Butch. In: Eadie, J. (ed.) Sexuality: The Essential Glossary. Essential Glossary Series. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 22-24. ISBN 9780340806753.

Posocco, Silvia (2004) "Butch", "Stone Butch", Butch/Femme", "Female Masculinity", "Passing", "Packing". In: Eadie, J. (ed.) Sexuality: The Essential Glossary. London, UK: Edward Arnold. ISBN 9780340806753.

Posocco, Silvia (2004) Butch/femme. In: Eadie, J. (ed.) Sexuality: The Essential Glossary. Essential Glossary Series. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 149. ISBN 9780340806753.

Posocco, Silvia (2004) Female masculinity. In: Eadie, J. (ed.) Sexuality: The Essential Glossary. Essential Glossary Series. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 152-153. ISBN 9780340806753.

Posocco, Silvia (2004) Packing. In: Eadie, J. (ed.) Sexuality: The Essential Glossary. Essential Glossary Series. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9780340806753.

Posocco, Silvia (2004) Passing. In: Eadie, J. (ed.) Sexuality: The Essential Glossary. Essential Glossary Series. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9780340806753.

Posocco, Silvia (2004) Stone butch. In: Eadie, J. (ed.) Sexuality: The Essential Glossary. Essential Glossary Series. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 67-68. ISBN 9780340806753.

Monograph

Posocco, Silvia (2008) Globalization, governmentality and failure through the prism of Petén, Guatemala. Working Paper. London School of Economics, London, UK.

Book

Posocco, Silvia and Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Aaberg, L. and Altay, T., eds. (2025) Queer and Trans life: anthropological futures. EASA Series. New York, U.S. and Oxford, UK: Berghahn. ISBN 9781805398585. (In Press)

McCallum, C. and Posocco, Silvia and Fotta, M., eds. (2023) The Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (In Press)

Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia (2021) Bioinformation worlds and futures. Routledge Studies in Anthropology. Routledge. ISBN 9780367409456.

Boyce, P. and Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Posocco, Silvia, eds. (2019) Queering knowledge: analytics, devices and investments after Marilyn Strathern. Theorizing Ethnography. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138230989. (In Press)

Bakshi, S. and Jivraj, S. and Posocco, Silvia, eds. (2016) Decolonizing sexualities: transnational perspectives, critical interventions. Oxford, UK: Counterpress. ISBN 9781910761021.

Haritaworn, J. and Kuntsman, A. and Posocco, Silvia, eds. (2014) Queer necropolitics. Social Justice. Oxford, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415644761.

Posocco, Silvia (2014) Secrecy and insurgency: socialities and knowledge practices in Guatemala. Tuscaloosa, U.S.: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817313593.