Yaatsil Guevara González holds a PhD in sociology from Bielefeld University. She has worked at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies (ifeas) at the University of Mainz, at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bielefeld University), and at the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University. She recently coordinated the research project “African Trajectories across Central America” funded by the German Research Foundation.

Katrin Metzger is a Ph.D. student at the University of Kassel. In her dissertation project, she investigates interactions between corporate, state and local actors in the context of resource extraction in Chile and Bolivia. She studied Latin American and Ancient American Studies and German as a Second and Foreign Language at the University of Bonn and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, as well as Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Marburg.