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Internacional Symposium: Study of Wealth and Elites in Latin America

As is well known, Latin America is characterized by historically persistent social inequality, which is very high compared to other regions of the world. While scientific efforts in recent years have increasingly focused on the consequences of this scenario for marginalized and poor populations, the constitution and concentration of wealth in the hands of a small economic elite remain largely unexplored. The CALAS research group "Study of Wealth and Elites" comprehensively examines the composition of wealth and the role of elites in Latin America.

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Editorial Assistant – Line of Research ‘Coping with Environmental Crises’

The Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) has the following job opening: Editorial Assistant for the CALAS – Line of Research ‘Coping with Environmental Crises’

The Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University is seeking a research associate to work in their offices within the structure of the joint-research initiative "Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Coping with Crises" (CALAS) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), starting May 1, 2022. The international and interdisciplinary joint initiative is responsible for a Center for Advanced Studies, where researchers investigate the question of how different social actors in Latin America perceive and evaluate crises, which crisis management solutions do they develop, and how do they implement them in a sustainable manner.

La convocatoria está abierta hasta el 28 de octubre 2021. Las condiciones se pueden consultar aquí.

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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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