Book
Butti, E. [in development] We Are the Nobodies: Youth, gangs, and precarity in neoliberal Colombia. Book manuscript under second review with New York University Press.
Peer-reviewed articles
Butti, E. (2025). Youth Are Not All the Same: On the Appropriateness and Limits of Participatory Methods in Youth Research. Social Sciences, Special Issue Researching Youth on the Move: Methods, Ethics and Emotions, eds. N. Hansen and C. Feixa, 14 (18): 1-14.
Butti, E. 2022. From Family to Franchise? Friendship, individualism and the marketization of the Colombian youth gang. Youth and Globalization, Special issue Gangs and Globalization, edited by Carles Feixa and Jose Sánchez-García, 3, 308-331.
Chávez, C. and Butti, E. 2020. ‘If You Don’t Have an Education, You Are No One’: Understanding the School Experiences of Youth involved in Drug-Related Crime in Mexico and Colombia. Journal of Education in Emergencies, Special Issue Education and the War on Drugs, edited by María José Bermeo and Diana Rodríguez Gómez, 6(1), 148-174.
Butti, E. and McGonigle, B. 2019. Intersectionality and Transformative Reparations: The Case of Colombian Marginal Youths. International Criminal Law Review, Special Issue The Ethnography of Armed Conflict, edited by Noha Aboueldahab, 19(5), 753-782.
Butti, E. 2016. The Invisible Violence behind the Legal Façade: Challenges of and Strategies for Conducting Research in High-Risk Settings in Transitional Colombia. Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, 1.
Book chapters
Abello-Colak, A. and Butti, E. [contracted]. Social Urbanism, City Branding and Criminal Mutations in Medellín. In Oxford Handbook on Urban Violence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Butti, E., Van Damme, E. and Ziosi, E. [forthcoming 2025]. Gangs and organized crime in Latin America: Boundaries, intersections, and articulations. Third Eurogang edited volume, edited by Dana Carson, Marta-Marika Urbanik and Reid Shanon. London: Springer.
Butti, E. [abstract accepted]. The Emotional and Moral Worlds of Crime-Involved Youth. Handbook on the Anthropology of Crime and Criminalisation, edited by Davide Casciano, Lene Swetzer and Martijn Oosterban. London: UCL University Press.
Butti, E. 2024. Safe and Ethical Ethnography: Looking Inwards. Inclusive Ethnography: Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical, edited by Caitlin Procter and Brawen Spector, pp. 18-32. London: SAGE.
Butti, E. 2022. Reflections on Youth, Norms, and Violence in Colombia’s Criminal World. Violence and Justice in Latin America, edited by Carlos Solar and Carlos Perez, pp. 25-43. London: Routledge.
Commissioned reports
Butti, E. 2019. El uso y utilización de menores de edad por parte de los grupos armados en Granizal. International Committe of the Red Cross – Medellín Sub-Delegation [internal report].
Butti, E. 2018. Involving Non-Organised ‘Outcast’ Youths in Peacebuilding: Existing Challenges and Lessons Learned in the Colombian Case. A contribution to the Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security mandated by Security Council Resolution 2250 (2015).
Butti, E. 2015. El enfoque diferencial de niñez en la Ley de Víctimas: Marco normativo e implementación. International Center for Transitional Justice – Bogotá office [internal report].