Centro Maria Sibylla Merian
Durante cuatro días, del 6 al 9 de diciembre 2021, 30 expertos internacionales, entre ellos los 10 becarios del segundo eje del Laboratorio de Conocimiento Confrontando las desigualdades en América Latina, exploraron nuevas perspectivas analíticas y metodológicas sobre las élites y la riqueza en la región.
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Eleonora Rohland is professor for entangled history in the Americas at Bielefeld University. She was trained as an economic, social, and environmental historian at the University of Bern, Switzerland and received her PhD from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany in 2014, while the research for her dissertation project was funded by a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI). Since 2017 she is a principal investigator in the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1288: "Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World" and co-coordinator of the research gro
She is a Professor of Sociology of Education and Pedagogy. Her research interests cover youth and schooling in extreme urban poverty, environmental studies, social inclusion and educational inequalities. She has been involved in several research projects in the slums of San Martin (Buenos Aires), close to the dumpsite of Ceamse and nearby the University. She has experience in innovative community-based research methods through artistic, ethnographic, digital and audio-visual practices. In her most recent projects she focuses on urban cartographies of education and social inequalities.
La pandemia de COVID-19 ha expuesto las carencias de la protección social en América Latina. Además de los grandes riesgos sanitarios, las poblaciones vulnerables también podrían sufrir del efecto económico de las políticas de bloqueo, así como el distanciamiento social. Por lo tanto, es probable que las disparidades económicas en la región sean reforzadas debido al brote de COVID-19. Ecuador es uno de los países de la región más afectados por la pandemia y la cobertura a las políticas de emergencia para mitigar el impacto de la crisis ha sido más limitada.
Elissa J. Rashkin (PhD, Communication Studies, University of Iowa, USA) is a researcher at the Center for the Study of Culture and Communication at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.She is the author of Atanasio D. Vázquez, photographer of the post-revolution in Veracruz (Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura, 2015), "Women filmmakers in Mexico. El otro cine" (Universidad Veracruzana, 2015) and "La aventura estridentista.
Antoine Acker is a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, where he leads a team project about the transnational history of petroleum in Latin America. His publications in environmental history received awards from the Conference on Latin American History and the Latin American Studies Association.
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Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil. Cambridge University Press (Global and International History series), 2017.
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