The Politics of Presence in Latin America
Friday, 23 October to Saturday, 24 October
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane
Confirmed speakers
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Keynotes
Alejandro Frigerio (FLACSO and CONICET, Argentina)
(Re)Presenting African Heritage in Argentina: The constraints of multicultural policies and politics
Charles R. Hale (Anthropology, University of Texas Austin)
The Rise (and Demise?) of Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Central America (1987-2009)
Juliet Hooker (Government, University of Texas Austin)
Territorial or Multiethnic Autonomy in Nicaragua: The Politics of Presence and Political Solidarity in Heterogenous Spaces
Invited speakers
Juan Carlos Barron Pastor (University of East Anglia)
From demanding to constructing spaces: mapping what is ‘indigenous’ in Mexican Higher Education
Sandra Brunnegger (University of Cambridge)
The indigenous law school of the Nasa community in Cauca: A case study of local adoption of human rights in Colombia
Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge)
Pedagogies of political agency in El Alto, Bolivia:
Education, multiculturalism and citizenship
David Lehmann (University of Cambridge)
Intercultural Universities in Mexico: between indigenism and corporatism
Sandra Moog (University of California, Berkeley and University of Essex)
Who's Representing the Rainforest?
The Rise of the Transnational Eco-regional Biodiversity Agenda, the Waning
Influence of the Organized Indigenous Movement, and the Future of the
Amazon
Annabel Pinker (University of Cambridge)
The Janus-faced Junta: Irony and the materiality of state representation in the Ecuadorian highlands
Sarah Radcliffe (University of Cambridge)
Indigenous women and development in Ecuador: Selective visibility and the contested politics of presence
Gabriella Ramos (University of Cambridge)
The presentation of the self among Indians in the colonial Andes
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