Conferences LASI 2023: How to develop social research that destabilizes hegemonic narratives?
National and international researchers led various presentations challenging the public, politics, and academia in the fourth edition of the Latin American Summer School on Social Issues. Manuel Prieto, Shelene Gomes, Fernando Pairican, Juan Carlos Cayo, and Guillermo Salas were responsible for closing each day of LASI 2023, a school that took place at the University […]
Manuel Prieto
Professor in the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences at the Universidad de Tarapacá. Associate Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR). Director of the Millenium Nucleus on Andean Peatlands (AndesPeat). Manuel Prieto’s research agenda is situated at the intersection of political and cultural ecology, political geography, and environmental science. His primary […]
Plenary/ Racialized anthropologies and their effects: Background and critical views from today’s Chile.
Anthropology has had a reflexive and critical component with respect to the conditions of knowledge generation. Various investigations have pointed out that the discipline is organized in geopolitical and hierarchical terms from the so-called “Global North,” with its variants of national and native anthropologies in the “Global South.” Given the colonial relationship of the origin […]
Round table: Indigenous peoples, recognition and interculturality in Chile todayAuto Draft
Shelene Gomes
Professor of Department of Behavioural Sciences, The University of the West Indies Shelene Gomes teaches courses in social anthropology and the sociology of culture with research interests in migration, mobilities, cosmopolitan thought and action, postcolonial religion and spirituality as well as the politics of race, class and gender. She has done ethnographic fieldwork in East […]
Processes of indigenization of politics in the southern Peruvian Andes
This conference presents two conflicting scenarios to analyze the ongoing processes of indigenization of regional politics in the southern Peruvian Andes. Both scenarios are related to the Quyllurit’i pilgrimage. This shrine, located at the foot of a glacier eighty kilometers from the city of Cusco, is the focus of the largest pilgrimage in the Peruvian […]
Violence and Democracy in Latin America
Gabriela Piña
Professor School of Anthropology Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies CIIR Gabriel Piña’s work focuses on childhood, interculturality and citizenship. Her topics of interest are: the ways in which indigenous children and youth understand the political realities of their communities, their processes of subjectivation, participatory methodologies […]
Guillermo Salas
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú PUCP. Director of the MA programs in Anthropology and Visual Anthropology PUCP. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. His research has been centered on indigenous […]
Ana Carolina Hecht
Professor Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Universidad de Buenos Aires Carolina Hecht is dedicated to the anthropology of education and linguistics, focusing on the research-production of educational and sociolinguistic problems of Toba/qom indigenous children and youth in contexts of diversity and inequality in Argentina. She is an associate researcher at CONICET and […]
