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International Conference "Confronting inequalities in Latin America: perspectives on wealth and power"

Latin America is characterized by high social inequality. This inequality is not only expressed in a pronounced asymmetry in the distribution, access, and consumption of material resources, but it is profoundly more complex due to its multi-dimensionality and its inter-sectionality. These social inequalities regularly create conflicts that often lead to deep political, social, and ecological crises.

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Authoritarianism in Democracy. Transregional and historical perspectives on disputed spaces

In Latin America in recent years, electoral processes have given rise to the political legitimation of actors and forces that promote antidemocratic discourses and values. Although to different degrees and despite highly varied national and regional dynamics, democratically elected officials have promoted an authoritarian turn in institutionalized social relations, the State. Two examples are Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil or, recently, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador.

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Ester Serra Mingot

Ester Serra Mingot is a social anthropologist with an approach on migration, social protection, and gender in African contexts. In 2018 she finished her Phd at the Universities of Maastricht (The Netherlands) and Aix Marseille (France), where she was capable to analyze transnational social protection issues for Sudanese immigrants and refugees in the Netherlands and the UK, as well as their families in Sudan.

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Eduardo Restrepo

Eduardo Restrepo is a Colombian anthropologist graduated from the University of Antioquia (Medellin. 1996), with master´s degree and doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills. His research stands out studies on Afro-Colombian populations, with a specific interest in the Colombian Pacific region. The processes of ethnicization and racialization, as well as politics of representation and black political subjectivities, are some of the issues addressed in his publications.

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Leandro Losada

Leandro Losada, holds a bachelor’s degree and a PhD in History (National University of the Center of the Buenos Aires Province). He is specialist in Atlantic and Connected history, history of elites, political history, and history of political thought. Currently he is an independent researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Associate Professor at the School of Politics and Government of the National University of San Martín (UNSAM) and Director of the Institute for Political Research (CONICET/UNSAM).

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Aaron Schneider

Aaron Schneider is Professor of International Studies at the University of Denver. His work focuses on the intersection of wealth and power, and he has conducted research in Latin America, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, he emphasizes the study of public finance as a window into the political economy of development and democracy. The way governments secure contributions from key social groups and how states decide what to do with the money tells a story about the nature of national political communities – who is in, who is out, and who will enjoy what benefits of membership.

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