China's engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean: Geopolitical challenges and the role of the EU China's engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean: Geopolitical challenges and the role of the EU BARBARA HOGENBOOM MICHIEL BAUD DIEGO STEINHÖFEL DOWNLOAD This report discusses how the changing global geopolitical relations that result from China’s new position in the world affect the LAC region and its international relations. In addition, the report discusses how the EU and its member countries, including the Netherlands, could react to the challenges of the increased Chinese presence and can help to counter any potential negative consequences of the Chinese presence. This is the third of three reports prepared for the China Knowledge Network (CKN) . The research for and the production of the reports was carried out within the framework agreement for the CKN. The aim of the CKN is to promote strategic knowledge development about China for the national government of the Netherlands. Responsibility for the content and for the opinions expressed rests solely with the authors and does not constitute, and should not be construed as, an endorsement by the Secretariat of the China Knowledge Network and/or the commissioning ministries. This CEDLA report is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0 Licence ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright is retained by the authors. Recommended citation: Hogenboom, B., Baud, M. and Steinhöfel, D. (2022), China's engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean: Geopolitical challenges and the role of the EU (China’s Role in Latin America and the Caribbean, No. 3), Amsterdam: CEDLA–UvA. About the authors Barbara Hogenboom is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA). She is Managing Editor of the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (ERLACS). Michiel Baud is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam and former Director of CEDLA (2000–2017). Previously, he was Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Leiden (1995–2000). Diego Steinhöfel is Research Assistant at CEDLA–UvA. He previously worked at Brot für die Welt (2021) and at German Development Cooperation, GIZ (2016–2019). He graduated in Latin American Studies from CEDLA. ​ The authors want to thank Javier Corrales and Kees Koonings for their insights, which have helped to shape this report. Design and Layout: Miren Zubizarreta. PLEASE FIND HERE THE THREE REPORTS OF THIS RESEARCH: China’s Economic and Political Role in Latin America BARBARA HOGENBOOM MICHIEL BAUD RUBEN GONZALEZ-VICENTE DIEGO STEINHÖFEL China’s Economic and Political Role in the Caribbean and Central America MICHIEL BAUD BARBARA HOGENBOOM RUBEN GONZALEZ-VICENTE RENSKE PIN DIEGO STEINHÖFEL China's engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean: Geopolitical challenges and the role of the EU BARBARA HOGENBOOM MICHIEL BAUD DIEGO STEINHÖFEL DOCTORAL THESES INAUGURAL AND VALEDICTORY SPEECHES CEDLA ANNUAL REPORTS PROJECT PUBLICATIONS

CEDLA Publications ERLACS – European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies CLAS Book s Cuaderno s DEC 3 CEDLA Lecture: The Colombian Peace Process at a Crossroads. Challenges and Perspectives Stefan Peters, Instituto CAPAZ (Bogotá) & University of Giessen ​ The Colombian peace process is at a crossroads. Although there is important progress, for example regarding transitional justice, various key issues for peace building continue to be unsolved. Moreover, we cannot speak of peace at all and rather we are observing a transformed violence. The talk will analyze the state of the peace process five years after the peace agreement and highlight important voids in both the agreement and implementation. It will close with recommendations that are crucial for building a lasting and sustainable peace in Colombia. ​

CEDLA Past Events 2022 - 2021 - 2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 Why drug seizures matter: Discriminatory policing and violence on Brazil's drug markets Recife is a large and extremely violent metropolis in Brazil’s poor Northeastern region. Much of that violence, according both to authorities and drug market participants, is tied to the workings of a large market for illicit drugs. Building on extensive fieldwork and an original dataset that collates all official drug seizures in the city since 2001. +INFO Urban floods and the political ecology of the state in Brazil The governance of hazardous urban environments has become a critical area for state intervention across Latin America and worldwide. Brazil is no exception, with significant flood and landslide disasters blighting many cities and especially those in the heavily urbanised Atlantic Forest biome. +INFO Hallazgos de la Comisión de la Verdad en Bolivia Esta exposición destaca los hallazgos más importantes de la Comisión de la Verdad en Bolivia y reflexiona sobre el trabajo de este tipo de órgano desde la experiencia boliviana. La comisión recopiló documentación y testimonios que resultaron en más de 6000 expedientes, con el objetivo de esclarecer las graves violaciones de derechos humanos durante las dictaduras militares entre 1964 y 1982. +INFO How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice On September 21, 1976, a car bomb killed Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean ambassador to the United States, along with his colleague Ronni Moffitt. The murder shocked the world, especially because of its setting – in the heart of Washington DC. +INFO june 4 Virtual Latijns-Amerika expert event Corona in Latijns-Amerika: Implicaties voor onze relatie met de regio Sprekers: o.a. Achraf Bouali, tweede kamerlid D66; Barbara Hogenboom, directeur CEDLA; Marit Maij, directeur CNV Internationaal; Joost de Vries, correspondent Volkskrant Latijns-Amerika; Marijke Zewuster, hoofd Emerging Markets & Commodity Research ABN AMRO. +INFO sept 11 Una revolución desde abajo: la filantropía de base liderada por mujeres en América Latina Ellas se están reencontrando y reapropiando de sus voces y sus vidas, y están asumiendo su responsabilidad por un futuro mejor. Estos movimientos han sido posibles gracias a las “donaciones” masivas de tiempo, capacidades, capital social y dinero de miles de mujeres. +INFO Pandemia, Neoextractivismos y Propuestas Alternativas desde el Sur Nos proponemos presentar y analizar los desafíos del Pacto Ecosocial e Intercultural del Sur, elaborado desde América Latina. +INFO Fifty public standpipes: Politicians, local elections, and struggles for water in Barranquilla, Colombia This talk tells the story of the WB project and the fifty public standpipes - which were never built. Its purpose is to analyse how water/power distributions have been reworked and consolidated, highlighting tensions triggered by the project at the national and local level. +INFO The Governance of the Brazilian Amazon in Times of Covid-19 Last year, the Amazon was on the world news about the devastating fire, rampant deforestation rate, and increased violence to indigenous populations. The national government responded the international pressure with denial of the socioenvironmental impacts, persecution of researchers, and disdain to the local populations. +INFO Politics, favours and votes: imagining the state and performing politics in Recife To contribute to a better understanding of Brazil’s recent rearrangement of political forces, including Bolsonaro's election, this presentation will discuss the ways political candidates imagine and perform politics in Recife. +INFO No More Innocence: Central America, Migration, and the Crisis of Containment The Central American migration crisis has become a flashpoint in US national debates over humanitarian, identity and security politics. As such, it provides a key lens through which to consider how evolving structures-of-feeling shape US immigration policies as well as broader trends in US public sentiment about how to represent (and target) what some scholars have self-reflexively called “human waste” – that is, those who must be excluded by any means necessary. +INFO The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s The creation of Lima's red light district in 1928 marked the culminating achievement of the promoters of regulation who sought to control the spread of venereal disease by medically policing female prostitutes. Its closure in 1956 was arguably the high point of abolitionism, a transnational movement originating in the 1860s that advocated that regulation was not only ineffective from a public health perspective, but also morally wrong. +INFO

Ouweneel, A. (2018). Resilient Memories- Amerindian Cognitive Schemas in Latin American Art Ouweneel, A. (2018). Resilient Memories- Amerindian Cognitive Schemas in Latin American Art CEDLA Researchers Dr Arij Ouweneel Oud-hoogleraar & Associate Professor (UHD), retired RESEARCH THEME: (PUBLIC) HISTORY, CULTURAL COGNITIVE STUDIES Arij Ouweneel is Associate Professor at CEDLA and was Special Professor of Historical Anthropology of the Amerindian Peoples at the Universiteit Utrecht from 1999 to 2004. He graduated cum laude in Social-Economic History at the Universiteit Leiden in 1983 and received his PhD cum laude in Social-Economic History at the same university in 1989. Over the past decade he changed from colonial history to contemporary public history and the cognitive cultural studies (psychology of art). See more details at the personal page at UvA website +INFO RESEARCH INTEREST Ouweneel’s current field of study is public history. This field studies the representation of history in the public sphere. One line of inquiry in this field regards film makers, painters, or cartoonists as public historians in their own right. This is the line that stands central in Ouweneel’s current research, analyzing source material from Spain, Germany, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Mexico. Theoretically, he tries to amend this work on public histories with insights from the cognitive sciences, especially the applied psychology of art. The essence of this is that in large measure information processing is mediated by learned or innate mental structures that organize related pieces of our knowledge. Because a narrative cultural memory is a specific cognitive schema, its parameters and elements can be identified analyzing artifacts. A specific focus of Ouweneel's investigations is on Amerindian history. He started his career writing about the self-confident position of Amerindians in Bourbon Mexico (Shadows over Anáhuac, The Flight of the Shepherd), but changed over the past decades to the history of the present (Terug naar Macondo, Freudian Fadeout, Resilient Memories). Recently he finished a manuscript on Frida Kahlo and the Intervening Agent, in Dutch and soon also in English. ​ SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2018 Ouweneel, A. (2018). Resilient Memories: Amerindian Cognitive Schemas in Latin American Art. (Cognitive Approaches to Culture). Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press. Ouweneel, A. (2018). Contemporary Amerindian imaginaries and the challenge of intersectional analysis. In F. L. Aldama (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture (pp. 263-272). (Routledge Companions to Gender). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315179728 Ouweneel, A. (Accepted/In press). Outsmarting the Lords of Death: An Amerindian Cognitive Script in Comics. In F. L. Aldama (Ed.), Graphing TransIndigenous Comic Books Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2015 Ouweneel, A. (2015). One Block at a Time: Performing the Neighbourhood. In C. Klaufus, & A. Ouweneel (Eds.), Housing and Belonging in Latin America (pp. 294-319). New York: Berghahn. 2012 Ouweneel, A. (2012). Freudian Fadeout: The Failings of Psychoanalysis in Film Criticism. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. Ouweneel, A. (2012). Us and Them: Researching Deep Roots of Andean Culture. In A. Ouweneel (Ed.), Andeans and their use of cultural resources: Space, gender, rights & identity (pp. 107-129). (Cuadernos del CEDLA; Vol. 25). Amsterdam: CEDLA. 2005 Ouweneel, A. (2005). The Flight of the Shepherd: Microhistory and the Psychology of Cultural Resilience in Bourbon Central Mexico. (CEDLA Latin America Studies; Vol. 93). Amsterdam: Aksant. 2004 Ouweneel, A. (2004). El debate Villalobos: Amerindios en McWorld. In Cruzando fronteras: reflexiones sobre la relevancia de fronteras históricas, simbólicas y casi desaparecidas en América Latina (pp. 147-181). Quito: Abya Yala. 2003 Ouweneel, A. (2003). The 'Collapse' of the Peruvian Ayllu. In T. Salman, & A. Zoomers (Eds.), Imaging the Andes: shifting margins of a marginal world (pp. 81-98). (CEDLA Latin America studies; Vol. 91). Amsterdam: Aksant. 2000 Ouweneel, A. (2000). El gobernador de indios, el repartimiento de comercios y la caja de comunidad en los pueblos de indios del México central (siglo xviii). In M. Menegus (Ed.), El repartimiento forzoso de mercancías en México, Perú y Filipinas (pp. 65-88). Mexico DF: CEU UNAM. Ouweneel, A. (2000). Representing the Core of Maya culture. In P. van Dijck, & E. al. (Eds.), Fronteras: Towards a Borderless Latin America (pp. 275-291). (CEDLA Latin America studies; Vol. 87). Amsterdam: CEDLA, University of Amsterdam.

Latin American Studies.jpg CEDLA Researchers Dr Christien Klaufus Assistant Professor RESEARCH THEME: URBAN STUDIES, HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Christien Klaufus joined CEDLA in April 2008 as Assistant Professor of Human Geography. She graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at Eindhoven University of Technology in 1993 and in Cultural Anthropology (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam in 1999. In 2006 she received her PhD in Anthropology at Utrecht University. From 1999 to 2001 and from 2006 to 2008 she worked as a researcher at OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies at Delft University of Technology, where she studied self-provided housing in The Netherlands. See more details at the personal page at UvA website +INFO RESEARCH INTEREST Christien’s research addresses two themes that are broadly related to what UN-Habitat calls the new urban transition in Latin America. The first research line focuses on the drivers of urbanization in intermediate cities. Processes of peri-urbanization are analyzed within the context of transnational migration and remittance spending to understand how planned urban growth and urbanization-from-below contribute to the development of medium-sized cities. The project speaks to two strands of literature: 1) the role of architecture as a catalyst of social and cultural change; 2) the debates on the densification of peri-urban areas in the context of local planning capacities. Research has been conducted so far in Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala and El Salvador. The second line of research encompasses the sustainability agenda’s effects on urban deathscapes. Latin American urban deathscapes are undergoing changes to increase the efficiency of scarce urban land; to meet norms for cleaner, healthier environments; and to develop decent and affordable dead-disposal for vulnerable groups. Considering that urban deathscapes are micro-cosmoses of larger urban societies, this project explores both urban policies and everyday practices and connects to a variety of debates on place-making, heritage conservation, gentrification, social inequality, urban violence, the power of the death industry, and environmental sustainability. The project started with case studies in Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia and is bound to include other Latin American metropolises in the near future. Societies worldwide are urbanizing at high speed. In 2050 almost 70 percent of the world population is projected to be urban. Advancing the planning of sustainable urban land use is an urgent theme. Infrastructure has to be provided to 6.4 billion people. This means that water, electricity and sewage systems will have to be improved and smarter mass transport systems to be developed. One of the basic human necessities not explicitly addressed in urban theories and policy prospects is the need for sufficient dignified spaces for dead disposal and commemoration, in other words ‘deathscapes’. The right to a dignified final destination is a basic human right. Yet, as part of the urban infrastructure, deathscapes tend to be developed rather haphazardly. Two tendencies increase the need for more knowledge on urban deathscapes, and hence, for an integrated field of deathscape studies: first, the demographic transition underway in several regions that will result in an aging population; and second, the intention formulated in the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, specifically in Goal 11 to build more compact and high-density cities. Higher population densities in cities urge us to find more space-efficient solutions for dead disposal too. In practice, this will arguably result in an increasing separation between disposal spaces and commemoration spaces. As one of the most urbanized regions in the world, Latin America figures prominently in the urban studies literature. In order to be better prepared for rapid urbanization processes taking place in other regions of the Global South, Latin American models are often used to exemplify desired and undesired policy outcomes. However, information about the development and transformation of urban deathscapes in Latin America is remarkably scarce, especially in comparison to the large amount of studies that have addressed deathscapes in Asian cities (e.g. Kong, 2012; Tan and Yeoh, 2002; Teather et al., 2001; Tremlett, 2007). This interdisciplinary program aims to provide a grounded understanding of the ways in which deathscapes in cities have been developed in the recent past as part of urban space and society, and the ways in which they would need to be developed to safeguard socially and environmentally sustainable urban futures. The program considers the urban deathscape to be a relevant locus for research on cities and, vice versa, it posits that the future of cities depends in part on the question how the ‘cities of the living’ find new forms of co-existence with the ‘cities of the dead’; how deathscapes can potentially be or become formative sites of conviviality for the city at large. Planning and governing deathscapes in high-density urban areas touches upon a myriad of pressing themes that are integrally addressed in this project. ​ SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2020 Klaufus, C. (2020). Safeguarding the House of the Dead: Configurations of Risk and Protection in the Urban Cemetery. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12890 ​ del Castillo, M. L., & Klaufus, C. (2020). Rent-seeking middle classes and the short-term rental business in inner-city Lima. Urban Studies, 57(12), 2547-2563. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019881351 ​ 2019 ​ van Noorloos, F., Klaufus, C., & Steel, G. (2019). 'Land in urban debates: Unpacking the grab-development dichotomy'. Urban Studies, 56(5), 855-867. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018789019 ​ Klaufus, C. (2019) 'Superstar-Saints and Wandering Souls: The Cemetery as a Cultural Hotspot in Latin American Cities'. In H. Selin, and R.M. Rakoff (Eds.), Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures (pp. 275-294). (Science across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science; Vol. 9). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18826-9_17 ​ 2018 ​ Klaufus, C. (2018) ‘Colombian deathscapes: Social practices and policy responses’, Journal of Urban Affairs 40(2): 209-225. ​ 2017 ​ Klaufus, C (2017) ‘Cemetery modernization and the common good in Bogotá’, Bulletin of Latin American Research 37(2): 206-221. Steel, G., F. van Noorloos & C. Klaufus (2017) ‘The urban land debate in the global South: new avenues for research’, Geoforum 83: 133-141. Klaufus, C., P. van Lindert, F. van Noorloos & G. Steel (2017) ‘All-inclusiveness versus exclusion: urban project development in Latin America and Africa’, Sustainability 9(11), 2038; doi:10.3390/su9112038 (open access). Klaufus, C. (2017) ‘Informal house design in the 21st century: cholo and remittances architecture’. In: F. Hernández and A. Becerra (Eds), Marginal Urbanisms: Informal and Formal Development in Cities of Latin America, pp. 82-101. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS DONE Death Research in the Netherlands UvA Centre for Urban Studies PROJECT MEMBERSHIPS NVT PODCAST AVAILABLE ​ Deathscapes in Latin American Metropolises How do increasingly cramped and overcrowded megacities, such as those in Latin America house the dead in their midst? And how do citizens use urban space to commemorate dead people? These and other questions guide Christien Klaufus’ research project Deathscapes in Latin American Metropolises discussed in this interview. ​

CEDLA Researchers PUBLICATIONS The Role of Rural and Community-based Tourism in Costa Rica’s Environmental and Sustainable Development AgendaThe Role of Rural and Community-based Tourism in Costa Rica’s Environmental and Sustainable Development Agenda Jun 20, 2021 ​ Work in Paradise:The interaction of women’s cultural, social, and economic capitals in shaping the local labor market of a Costa Rican small-scale touristic village.Work in Paradise:The interaction of women’s cultural, social, and economic capitals in shaping the local labor market of a Costa Rican small-scale touristic village. Jan 25, 2020 Beatrice Mosseri Junior Lecturer & Mentor RESEARCH THEME: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY b.mosseri@uva.nl Beatrice Mosseri is a new Junior Lecturer in Latin America and Global Studies at CEDLA. After a bachelor’s in Sociology obtained in Milan, she moved to Amsterdam and graduated with an MSc in Cultural and Social Anthropology, and an MA in Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In the past two years and a half, Beatrice has worked as a Junior Lecturer in the Anthropology Department’s undergraduate program. Her research passion lies at the crossroads of tourism and environmental justice, with a primary focus on local social and environmental sustainability. For both her Master’s, Beatrice conducted research in Costa Rica (both in person and digitally during the pandemic), exploring the intricate dynamics between tourism, local communities, and the environment. Currently, she's channeling her interests in applied a

CEDLA EVENTS FEBRUARY - JUNE 2024 If you are viewing our agenda on a smartphone, scroll down to see more details of our events. Latin American Indigenous Knowledge, Exoticism and Pharmacy in European Cultural Repertoires CEDLA LECTURE 17 MAY 2024 Criminal Displacement: Rupture and Reckoning in Guatemala’s Extortion Economy CEDLA LECTURE 7 JUNE 2024 Annual Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) Conference Postgraduates in Latin American Studies (PILAS) day SLAS Conference, 1-3 July 2024 PILAS Day, 4 July 2024 Deadline for all proposals: CLOSED Registration deadline: 11 M arch 2024 PHOTO EXHIBITION 'EVERYTHING SINGS' BY LAURA TRIANA GALLEGO FEBRUARY-MAY 2024 “Everything in music is nature; it is singing and playing; it is Whatuku. Because the whole area of the river, the water, the wind stick, the breeze - everything sings, and we also sing to them to be grateful for what we received from nature”. Mamo Eusebio Conchagui Sauna, August 2023 ​ The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia is a biodiverse region where the mountains meet the Caribbean Sea. It is also home to various Amerindian communities, including the Wiwa. Between 2011 and 2023, Laura Triana Gallego visited the Wiwa living around Siminke in the Ranchería River basin, first as a team member of an NGO and later as an independent researcher and PhD candidate at CEDLA (FGw-UvA) UPCOMPING CEDLA EVENTS Join our mailing list! To ensure that you don't miss out on events, exhibitions, engaging educational programs, latest courses, research, publications and other news, please join our mailing list today! We will not spam your mailbox, but send you a newsletter around twice per month. JOIN UPCOMING EVENTS Latin American Indigenous Knowledge, Exoticism and Pharmacy in European Cultural Repertoires SPEAKER: Fernando González Rodríguez , KU Leuven DISCUSSANT: Tinde van Andel , Leiden University DATE: 17 May TIME: 15.30-17.00, followed by drinks and snacks ACTIVITY: CEDLA LECTURE VENUE: CEDLA Room 2.02 (2nd floor) ​ Ever since the encounter between the so-called Old and New Worlds, there has been an exchange of pharmacological knowledge across the Atlantic. Both materially and figuratively, the application of natural precursors native to the Americas have become part of the Western therapeutic landscape. ‘Exotic’ curative plants from far away places retain their place as a reference in contemporary cultural repertoires, but as I show, in the process, important contributions of medicinal Indigenous expertise to modern science have been overlooked. Focusing on the linguistic and visual aspect of pharmacological epistemic transfers across time, I ask: Whose nature and knowledge is it? Criminal Displacement: Rupture and Reckoning in Guatemala’s Extortion Economy SPEAKER: Katherine Saunders-Hasting , University College London DATE: 7 June TIME: 15.30-17.00, followed by drinks and snacks ACTIVITY: CEDLA LECTURE VENUE: CEDLA Room 2.02 (2nd floor) ​ Gangs, extortion, migration: these are among the big stories that have dominated domestic public discourse in and international coverage of Central America’s Northern Triangle of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras in the 21st century. While the region’s once world-leading murder rates have declined significantly over the past decade, extortion—the core of the criminal economy of its notorious street gangs called ‘maras’—has expanded precipitously. It is now a billion-dollar industry affecting hundreds of thousands of people every year. This same criminal economy and the gangs behind it have also been displacing residents of the Northern Triangle within and beyond the borders of their countries. Many thousands have sought to claim asylum abroad on the basis of extortion, violence, and threats by gangs and the inability or unwillingness of their home states to protect them. However, criminal persecution fits poorly with existing international protection regimes, raising a need to further our understanding of the nexus between forced displacement and organized crime. Drawing on a dozen years of longitudinal ethnographic research in Guatemala City, this talk explores the evolution of gang-run extortion economies, the ways residents of mara territories have sought to cope with them, and the complex relationship between gangs, extortion, and criminal displacement. ​ www.slasamsterdam2024.nl This year the conference will also include an additional day for postgraduates organised by PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Studies). ​ CEDLA is delighted to invite proposals for the SLAS conference and PILAS day once our submission system opens on Friday 15 September 2023. ​ SLAS Conference, 1-3 July 2024 PILAS Day, 4 July 2024 Deadline for all proposals: CLOSED Registration deadline: 11 March 2024

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Prince Bernhard Scholarships We congratulate the winners of this year’s scholarships: Diego Galdo González: The Beautiful Archive: Gender, Class, and Queer History in the Beauty Salon (1950-2024) Mirko van Pampus: Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation of Socio-Environmental Conflict in Chilean Lithium Mining The Beautiful Archive: Gender, Class, and Queer History in the Beauty Salon (1950-2024), by Diego Galdo González The beauty salon is an establishment that fulfills a seemingly clear function in society. Hair grows, it falls, it changes in color, and it fades away. The salon acts as a space where hair gets cut, tinted, or otherwise cared for. The salon in Latin America, though, is no ordinary business. The salon constitutes a unique case of an institution that systematically employs queers or maricones, secures a degree of tolerance and respect that they are unlikely to find elsewhere, and grants them as a stable income, a daytime space of socialization, and regular contact with heterosexual female clients. Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel famously claimed that “behind every famous woman, there is always a couturier, a make-up artist or a hairdresser” practicing “the dance of the tarantula hands on her hair” (1995). The Beautiful Archive aims to observe, describe, and preserve the dance of the tarantula hands that countless maricones practiced in Lima’s beauty parlors between the 1950’s and the present by conducting oral history interviews with hairdressers and ethnographic fieldwork in salons, and placing both in an archive. Zooming into the space of the salon, this project asks: How do peluqueras represent, (re)produce, and epitomize the past and present of maricón culture in the beauty salons of Lima? Several sub-questions follow up from this inquiry: How did the peluquera and the salon change throughout the second half of the twentieth century? How do peluqueras give meaning to beauty salons? How does the salon operate as a living archive of maricón cultures and life trajectories in the present? This interdisciplinary project—situated at the intersection of history, anthropology, queer studies, and urban studies—addresses these questions by attending to the past and the present of the salon through the gaze of the hairdresser. ​ ​ Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation of Socio-Environmental Conflict in Chilean Lithium Mining, by Mirko van Pampus ​ The global transition towards a decarbonised energy system has dramatically increased the demand for raw materials, as clean energy technologies require large amounts of metals. This resource intensity of the energy transition involves inherently political questions on access, decision making, distribution and impact, and will intensify environmental and social tensions in regions of extraction. With its large reserves of copper, graphite, nickel, rare earth elements and lithium, Latin America will play a central role in fuelling the energy transition of the 21st century. Chile finds itself in a central position in this modern day ‘gold rush’, as it possesses over half of the world’s lithium reserves. While the government, the lithium companies and investors aim to reap the benefits of the current lithium boom, others fear degradation of the fragile ecosystems of the region and the further marginalisation of its communities. Although the lithium companies stress that everything happens within the legal framework of extractive legislation and that environmental impact is limited, communities complain of ecological and social disruption due to the large-scale groundwater extraction that is needed to produce lithium. This research project is part of a larger project that aims to analyse the underlying power dynamics behind the clash of narratives in the lithium debate. The central focus here are the processes of conflict neutralisation in this case, particularly by means of knowledge production around environmental impact and local social investment campaigns. Through a combination of documental research and interviews on location the strategies of and relations between different stakeholders are analysed. With this scholarship, I will go to Chile for a third visit and gather additional information for the publication of two articles of this research project. ​ May 28 Cheesecake, figs, and pinot noir. RSVP Now The Prince Bernhard Scholarships were established in 1991 by the Foundation “The Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Institute”, on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the late Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. The programme has also been financially supported by the University of Utrecht and CEDLA. Each year, depending on the amount of applications, one or two scholarships of 5,000 euros are awarded to promising young researchers from the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, or Latin America. ​ The scholarships aim to support innovative research carried out in the fields of economic, political, or cultural relations between the Netherlands/Europe and Latin America. Preferably, one of the scholarships will be awarded to a research proposal in the field of sustainability. The proposed sustainability research project should ideally be related to social, legal, economic or environmental aspects of the following topics: Climate change, Biological mechanisms and changes, Energy for sustainable development, Land use dynamics and land use planning, Ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. ​ SELECTION The selection of the scholarship winners will be decided upon by a Scientific Board, consisting of: Dr. Christien Klaufus (CEDLA/University of Amsterdam), Chair Carolina Valladares (PhD candidate, CEDLA) Prof. dr. Patricio Silva (Leiden University) Dr. Gery Nijenhuis (Utrecht University) Prof. dr. Kees Koonings (University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University) The research proposals will be evaluated on scientific relevance, its innovative aspects, the research method and planning and its feasibility. The scholarships will be officially awarded by Prince Bernard’s grandson, Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme, during an award ceremony that will be scheduled in May 2024. ​ CEREMONY The ceremony will be attended by the Board of the Foundation, as well as by the members of the Scientific Board, authorities of CEDLA, and the ambassadors of Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal. During this ceremony the winners of the Prince Bernhard Scholarships are expected to give a short presentation on their research project. For further questions please contact CEDLA’s secretariat at secretariaat-cedla@uva.nl or +31 20 525 3498. PRINCE BERNHARD SCHOLARSHIPS WINNERS ​ 2012 2016 2013 2017 2014 2018 2015 2019 ​ 2020 2021 2023

CEDLA Latin American Studies CEDLA Latin American Studies About CEDLA ​ Since its creation in 1964, the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA), hosted by the University of Amsterdam, has promoted Latin American Studies in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond. We do this by conducting and stimulating relevant and original research on developments in Latin America and distributing the results of this research internationally via academic education at BA, MA and PhD levels and via academic publications such as the open access journal ERLACS . Based on a long history of multi-disciplinary research and studies in the fields of both Social Sciences and Humanities (including cultural anthropology, history, political science, human geography, sociology and economics), we increasingly apply interdisciplinary approaches in our projects and education. CEDLA’s library is considered one of Europe’s largest specialized collections of material on Latin America. The CEDLA institute is part of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam . We also have close ties with the UvA’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences as well as with Latin American Studies programmes and researchers in the Netherlands and abroad. CEDLA’s research pertains to the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES), which stimulates cross-Regional Studies collaboration. For detailed reports of CEDLA’s activities see our Annual Reports on the years 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020, 2021 and 2022 . Academic Research CEDLA’s research focuses on present and past processes of societal change in Latin America. The CEDLA team has acquired external research funding from various agencies, including the NWO and the EU. In addition to conducting multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research, the Centre makes every effort to distribute the research results and stimulate both academic and societal debates on Latin America. This is done by writing (academic) publications, organising lectures, seminars and conferences, and working in conjunction with sister organisations in the Netherlands as well as abroad. Next to its team of researchers, CEDLA hosts a number of PhD students and fellows, and occasionally appoints temporary staff members for specific research projects. CEDLA researchers are involved in multiple research networks with Latin American and other international researchers and institutions. ​ Education Education CEDLA offers BA, MA and PhD courses and programmes. At the Bachelor’s level, the programme of Spanish and Latin American Studies (SLAS ) offers a special track in Latin American Studies. CEDLA also offers a broad range of topical courses on Latin America within the field of Social Sciences and the Humanities, which can be taken individually or combined into a minor in Latin American Studies . The minor and individual courses are also open to students from other universities. In the multi-disciplinary Master's of Latin American Studies (MLAS), students spend two to three months in Latin America to do research for their thesis project. The MLAS is part of the Latin American Studies Programme (LASP), an interuniversity graduate programme providing Master and PhD education, which is coordinated by CEDLA. In addition, CEDLA offers tailormade training programmes for professionals (e.g. to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs). ​ Publications CEDLA hosts the academic peer-reviewed open access journal ERLACS – European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe – that is published twice a year, in print and online. Scholars from all across the globe contribute articles to ERLACS that reflect substantial empirical research and/or innovative theoretical contributions with respect to major scholarly debates. In association with Berghahn Books, CEDLA also published the book series CEDLA Latin America Studies (CLAS), which consists of monographs and edited volumes. Library Library The CEDLA library has an extensive and in many ways unique collection of more than 80,000 books and hundreds of journals, as well as extensive archive material on microfilm, and many reference works and bibliographies. The library provides to all visitors an attractive opportunity to view, study, borrow, and copy material. The complete collection can be searched through the central catalogue of the University of Amsterdam. ​ Other networks and activities There is extensive and continuous contact at the research level with foreign universities and research institutes specializing in Latin American Studies. Within the Netherlands, CEDLA is a well-known platform and contact point for scholars, students, journalists, public and private institutions, NGOs and citizens with questions or plans with regard to the region. For instance, we provide space for the monthly meetings of the interuniversity PhD-student forum for Research on Latin America, OLA , and work together closely with our colleagues in the Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, NALACS . Furthermore, CEDLA offers support to two scholarship programmes for young scholars in Latin American Studies: the Prince Bernard Scholarships and the Slicher van Bath-de Jong Fund . ​ Our Objectives Our Objectives to carry out Social Science and Humanities (SSH) research on Latin America to further research-based teaching on Latin America to extend and increase knowledge about the societies and cultures of Latin America to collect books, journals and other materials relevant to the study and documentation of Latin America to foster the exchange and coordination of Latin American Studies in the Netherlands. ​ ACADEMIC STAFF Prof. dr. Barbara Hogenboom Director of CEDLA Prof. dr. Michiel Baud Prof. dr. Kees Koonings Prof. dr. Rutgerd Boelens Dr. Fábio de Castro Dr. Christien Klaufus Dr. Julienne Weegels Dr. Dana Brablec Dr. Gabriela Russo Lopes Diego Galdo-González Mirko van Pampus Beatrice Mosseri ​ ​ ​ Irene Arends, PhD, Head Secretary Bente van de Nes, M.A., Education & PR Bestanist Nin, M.A., Communication & Website Rebeca Fernández, PhD, Desk Editor & Edita Gerson Kuiper, M.A., Head Librarian Corina Kuiper, Library Assistant ​ ​ ​ Mirtha Lorena del Castillo Vincenzo Carbone Barbara Haenen Luisa Gonzalez Valencia Geraldine Lamadrid Guerrero Antonia McGrath Isa Mollinger Hannah Porada Lieke Prins Johann Sebastian Reyes Bejarano Tatiana Roa Avendaño Laura Ximena Triana Gallego Carolina Valladares Pasquel SUPPORT STAFF PhD CANDIDATES CEDLA NEWSLETTER If you would like to receive information about CEDLA’s latest courses, research, publications, events and other news, please sign-up to CEDLA’s news updates. We will not spam your mailbox, but send you a newsletter around twice per month. SUBSCRIBE

CEDLA Events 2020 jan 24 Why drug seizures matter: Discriminatory policing and violence on Brazil's drug markets Jean Daudelin, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University Recife is a large and extremely violent metropolis in Brazil’s poor Northeastern region. Much of that violence, according both to authorities and drug market participants, is tied to the workings of a large market for illicit drugs. Building on extensive fieldwork and an original dataset that collates all official drug seizures in the city since 2001, this presentation documents the extent to which policing reinforces dynamics that concentrate violence in the markets catering to the poor, while helping middle-class ones remain remarkable devoid of tension. This research is realized with José Luiz Ratton (Federal University of Pernambuco), together we published the book "Illegal Markets, Violence and Inequality" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

CEDLA-Latin-American-Studies-Amsterdam-China.png China’s increasing presence in Latin America and the Caribbean: What are the implications for the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the EU? We encourage you to physically attend the event in the Hague, despite the train strike on Friday, but in case you have no other option, participation is also possible online. Please register HERE for the seminar and you will receive travel instructions to Clingendael, and the zoom link (Friday morning). Time: Friday 9 September 2022, 13:00–16:30 Place: Clingendael Institute, Clingendael 7, 2597 VH The Hague Organiser: Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, CEDLA-UvA Far away from the new Cold War on European soil, Latin American and Caribbean countries are faced with crucial decisions. How do they shape the future of their societies, and importantly, which external actors do they trust to help them? For the region the challenge is more complex than a simple contrast between Chinese economic power and US and European values. This complexity is visible on both sides of the equation. On the one hand, the Chinese economic involvement does not necessarily or consistently threaten democratic values in the region and, on the other, US (and European) involvement does not necessarily always bring respect for human rights and democracy. What is the nature of the increasing presence of China in the LAC region, and what are the implications for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the EU and also the US? This question is central to the research project that CEDLA has done for the China Knowledge Network (funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defence). In three reports, to be published in the week before the event, these key dimensions are scrutinized: China’s economic and political role in Latin America China’s economic and political role in the Caribbean and Central America China's engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean: Geopolitical challenges and the role of the EU On 9 September we will discuss important findings and policy recommendations with scholars, policy-makers and civil society, moderated by journalist Edwin Koopman. Please register here . For questions: secretariat@cedla.nl . 13:00 – 13:30 Arrival with coffee and tea 13:30 – 13:45 Introduction & Presentation Yvette van Eechoud, Min. of Foreign Affairs Michiel Baud, CEDLA-UvA 13:45 – 14:30 Roundtable 1: China in the Caribbean Basin – Between Risk and Opportunity for the KNL (Report 2) Jorien Wuite, Member of Parliament, D66 Rubén González-Vicente, Univ. of Birmingham Gert Oostindie, Univ. Leiden & KITLV Heleen Schrooyen, NIMD 14:30 – 14:50 Q&A 14:50 – 15:15 Coffee & tea break 15:15 – 16:00 Roundtable 2: How can Dutch & EU policies address China’s growing influence in LAC? (Reports 1 & 3) Frans-Paul van der Putten, CKN Clingendael Maurice van Beers, CNV Internationaal Barbara Hogenboom, CEDLA-UvA 16:00 - 16:30 Q&A and closing words Marc Moquette, Min. of Foreign Affairs 16:30 Drinks ​ ​ Yvette van Eechoud is Director Western Hemisphere (Americas/Caribbean) at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Michiel Baud is a historian and Professor of Latin American studies at CEDLA, University of Amsterdam. Jorien Wuite is a D66 Member of Parliament and a former Minister (Sint Maarten). Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente is a political economist and political geographer and Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham. Gert Oostindie is Professor emeritus of Colonial and Postcolonial History at Leiden University and former Director of the KITLV. Frans-Paul van der Putten is a Senior Research Associate and China specialist at the Clingendael Institute. Heleen Schrooyen is a Senior Advisor Strategic Relations at NIMD, the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy. Maurice van Beers, Coordinator Latin America CNV Internationaal. Barbara Hogenboom is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Director of CEDLA, the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation. Marc Moquette is Knowledge Envoy China at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Edwin Koopman is a journalist at Bureau Buitenland-VPRO and Trouw.

Biblioteca The CEDLA Library ​ The Library has an extensive collection covering the social sciences, economy, human geography, history and culture of Latin America. The collection consists of books, journals, CD-ROMs, microfiches and microfilms. ​ The CEDLA Library is open to everyone for consultation of the collection. To borrow books you must have a library card. For UvA and HvA students the student ID card is also their library card. For UvA and HvA staff the staff ID card is also their library card. If you are not affiliated to the UvA or HvA but wish to borrow publications from the Library, you may request a library card online provided you have: ​ a permanent address in the Netherlands for at least 3 months a valid ID You will be notified by email when your Library card is ready. In general, it will take two working days. Students of Dutch universities have to pick up the card at the UB Singel (Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam). The library card is free to students of Dutch universities, the Open University and the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, on showing a valid student ID card, proof of enrolment for the current academic year and a valid ID. ​ The library card is free to staff of Dutch universities, the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), the Royal Library (KB) and the Higher Art Education in Amsterdam on showing a recent pay slip and a valid ID. UvA alumni are also entitled to a free library card, on showing their membership card of the Amsterdamse Universiteits-Vereniging (AUV) and a valid ID. If you are not eligible for a free library card, the cost will be € 35, and you can pay online via iDeal. ​ If you wish to borrow from different libraries in Amsterdam, it may be advantageous to buy an AdamNet card for €45 per year. If you are a member of another Dutch library and are interested in a publication from the UvA collections, you may submit an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request at your own library to have the publication sent to that library. For information about the cost involved, please inquire at your own library. ​ ​ The whole CEDLA collection can be searched through the UvA Catalogue Read our blog for students and researchers interested in the CEDLA Library The CEDLA Library has its own classification system Library Membership

CEDLA Researchers Prof Dr Barbara Hogenboom CEDLA Director political science Prof Dr Michiel Baud Professor history Prof Dr Kees Koonings Professor brazilian studies Prof Dr Rutgerd Boelens Professor political ecology of water Dr Christien Klaufus Assistant Professor human geography & urban studies Dr Arij Ouweneel Associate Professor history & cultural cognitive studies Dr Fábio de Castro Assistant Professor brazilian studies Dr Julienne Weegels Assistant Professor anthropology & criminology Dr Dana Brablec Assistant Professor race, decoloniality and intersectionality Diego Galdo-González Lecturer latin american and global studies Dr Gabriela Russo Lopes Post doctoral Researcher Local and Indigenous Knowledge for an Amazonian Grounded Mirko van Pampus Research Assistant political economy and political ecology Beatrice Mosseri Junior Lecturer & Mentor Cultural and Social Anthropology

Team Task CEDLA Annual Reports The CEDLA institute is part of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. We also have close ties with the UvA’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences as well as with Latin American Studies programmes and researchers in the Netherlands and abroad. CEDLA’s research pertains to the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES), which stimulates cross-Regional Studies collaboration. For detailed reports of CEDLA’s activities see our Annual Reports: 2017 2020 2018 2021 2019 2022 ERLACS – European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies CLAS Books Cuadernos Doctoral Theses Inaugural and Valedictory Speeches Project Publication Annual Reports MLAS Final Theses

CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA 2024 Plazo de presentación de candidaturas 15 de abril Fondo Slicher van Bath de Jong: para promover el estudio y la investigación sobre la historia de América Latina El profesor Dr. B. H. Slicher van Bath, fallecido en 2004 y que en vida fue miembro de la KNAW – Real Academia de Ciencias de los Países Bajos – y profesor emérito de las universidades de Groningen, Leiden, Wageningen y Nimega, ha cedido por testamento al CEDLA un legado en su nombre y en el de su esposa J.P. de Jong, fallecida en 2009. El objetivo del Fondo es hacer avances en el estudio y la investigación sobre la historia de América Latina desde 1500 hasta 1940, proporcionando apoyo financiero para la investigación histórica de becarios (preferiblemente menores de 35 años). Podrán optar a esta beca los estudiantes que cursen estudios de historia y estén preparando su doctorado o hayan obtenido recientemente un título equivalente, y estén realizando trabajos de investigación que puedan ser verificados. Se requiere además que estén vinculados a una universidad de Europa o de América Latina. El término América Latina se refiere a la región que abarca los países de América en los que el español o el portugués son lenguas oficiales. La beca se destina a actividades de investigación, como la búsqueda en archivos o el estudio en diversas bibliotecas, que deben realizarse en el año siguiente a la concesión de la beca. El beneficiario recibe el 75% de la beca tras la aceptación de esta, y el resto después de que los resultados (p. ej. una publicación académica) hayan sido presentados y aprobados. Cada año, el Fondo Slicher van Bath de Jong ofrece al menos cuatro becas de investigación dotadas con un máximo de €10.000 cada una. ​ La selección de los ganadores de la beca será decidida por un Consejo Científico, compuesto por: Prof. M. Baud - CEDLA/Universidad de Ámsterdam Prof. G.J. Oostindie - Universidad de Leiden Dr. S. Valdivia Rivera – Estudios latinoamericanos - Universidad de Leiden ​ ​ ​ CÓMO APLICAR Fundación Slicher van Bath de Jong Las solicitudes pueden estar escritas en holandés, inglés o español y deben contener los siguientes elementos: ​ 1. Una descripción de su investigación, incluyendo la planificación y el presupuesto; especificar qué parte y para qué objetivo exacto se utilizaría la beca, si se concede (máximo 2000 palabras) 2. Un breve Curriculum Vitae (Résumé) 3. Una carta de recomendación, si corresponde, del supervisor de la investigación. Se espera que los investigadores acreditados con estas becas presenten sus investigaciones al CEDLA, compartiendo uno o más resultados de sus investigaciones, preferiblemente en forma de publicaciones. Todas las publicaciones como resultado de esta beca reconocerán el apoyo de esta beca. Las solicitudes pueden enviarse a secretariaat-cedla@uva.nl . También para más información póngase en contacto con secretariaat-cedla@uva.nl o llame al +31 20 525 3498 GANADORES DE LA CONVOCATORIA DEL 2023 Karolyna de Paula Koppke Cross the Atlantic and Rebuild Time: a Study on the Teaching of History for Architects in Two American Capitals [1854-1864] Carla Cisternas Guasch Exploring the Origins of Ad Hoc Advisory Committees: A Historical Assessment of Expert Commissions in Chile, 1890-1930 Christian Tym Whose Savagery? An Archival Investigation into the Shrunken Head Trade in Ecuadorian Amazonia ENGLISH DUTCH Biografía del Prof. Dr. B.H. Slicher van Bath ​ Bernard Hendrik Slicher van Bath nació en 1910 y murió en 2004. Contrajo matrimonio en 1941 con Jacoba Petronella de Jong (1918-2009). Slicher se formó como historiador y arqueólogo en Groningen y Utrecht. En 1945 se doctoró cum-laude en Ámsterdam en un tema de la historia jurídica de Drenthe: Mensch en land in de middeleeuwen. Bijdrage tot een geschiedenis der nederzettingen in Oostelijk Nederland (El hombre y la tierra en la Edad Media. Una contribución a la historia de los asentamientos en el este de los Países Bajos). Poco después fue nombrado Archivero Nacional en Overijssel, posición que aprovechó para seguir investigando la historia de la provincia, dando lugar a Een samenleving onder spanning. Geschiedenis van het platteland in Overijssel (1957) [Una sociedad bajo estrés. La historia rural de Overijssel]. Hasta 1970 estudió la historia rural de esta provincia y de otras partes de los Países Bajos y Europa. Los estudios de este periodo están incluidos en De agrarische geschiedenis van West-Europa (500-1850) (1960) [La historia agraria de Europa Occidental (500- 1850)], obra que indirectamente fue solicitada por la revista Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Este libro fue traducido al inglés, italiano, español, portugués y japonés, ganando así el reconocimiento internacional de sus investigaciones. Cabe destacar que fue profesor de Historia Económica en la Universidad de Groningen y Catedrático de Historia Agraria en la Universidad de Wageningen, dónde fue nombrado jefe de dicho departamento. Bajo su dirección, se inició en una serie de estudios sobre la historia socioeconómica de las áreas rurales en partes de los Países Bajos y otros lugares. Para 1950, había despertado en Slicher un interés por la historia de América Latina. En 1951 comenzó a dar clases en Wageningen sobre la historia del continente. Gracias a su posición de dos años (1967 y 1968) como profesor invitado en la Universidad de Chicago, finalmente pudo viajar por América Latina. Durante los siguientes años fue perdiendo interés en los estudios sobre la historia agraria y quería concentrarse en el desarrollo de un programa de investigación sobre América Latina. Este cambio en su investigación conllevó a su renuncia en 1972, dando final a 30 años de estudio de la historia agraria de Europa. Dos años más tarde fue nombrado director del CEDLA, donde trabajó en estrecha colaboración con el tempranamente fallecido Adriaan van Oss (1947-1984). Este fue el comienzo de los próximos 30 años de investigación científica, llevada a cabo sobre todo después de su retiro. Esta nueva etapa fue muy fructífera y dio lugar a la publicación de cinco de sus principales libros: Spaans Amerika omstreeks 1600 (1979) [Hispanoamérica alrededor de 1600], recientemente publicado en español (2010); Bevolking en economie in Nieuw-Spanje (ca 1570-1800) (1981) [Población y economía en la Nueva España (ca. 1570 a 1800)]; Real hacienda y economía en Hispanoamérica (1541-1820) (1989); Indianen en Spanjaarden: een ontmoeting tussen twee werelden. Latijns Amerika 1500-1800 (1989) [Indios y españoles: un encuentro entre dos mundos. América Latina 1500-1800]; De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika, 1493-1820: auteurs, verhalen en lezers (1998) [Reflexión sobre el pasado en América Latina, 1493-1820: historias, de autores, y lectores]. Fue nombrado Catedrático Extraordinario de Historia de América Latina en la Universidad de Leiden (1976-1981) y en la Universidad Católica de Nimega – ahora Radboud – en 1983 como Cátedra L.J. Rogier de Historia de América Latina. La obra con Van Oss se centraba en estudios historiográficos sobre América Latina. La investigación cuantitativa no se alejaba mucho del enfoque que tuvo Slicher en décadas anteriores sobre la historia rural europea. No obstante, ambos investigadores le dieron más fondo a la historiografía integral u holística, por lo que el contenido cubrió un campo más amplio que antes, que ahora incluía cultura, ciencia, arte, iglesia y religión, gestión y política. Su último libro, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika, en el cual trabajó durante ocho años casi a diario, trata de trata de una interpretación de la historiografía de América Latina.

CEDLA-Amsterdam-University-UvA-Latin-American-Studies.jpg Minor Latin American Studies CEDLA - UvA ​ Latin American Studies focuses on the society, culture, politics and history of Latin America: a complex and multi-faceted region that is not always easy to understand. Farreaching economic reforms and rapid urbanisation coexist with peasant societies. Democratic and authoritarian tendencies exist side by side in politics, and often lead to surprising results and outcomes. This minor is offered by the Faculty of Humanities and CEDLA. The faculty’s minors consist of 30 ECTS credits and earn you a second qualification that will be listed on the transcript accompanying your degree certificate. Studying at CEDLA CEDLA is considered to be one of Europe’s leading Latin American Studies institutes. Its staff members are experienced researchers and qualified teachers. CEDLA has a large library with a unique collection. Facilities such as student work stations, internet and computer access, and lecture rooms are excellent. CEDLA is pivotal to the Latin American Studies community in the Netherlands. It publishes an academic journal (ERLACS ), organises monthly lectures, dialogues, and many other events. It also houses the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS ) and the Latin American Studies Programme (LASP ). CREDITS 30 ECTS LANGUAGE English STARTS in September LOCATION CEDLA STUDY SCHEDULE - YEAR 1 COURSES Politics and Protest: The Latin American State and Social Movements The Identity of the City in Latin America Race, Place and the Politics of Indigeneity Research in Latin America ELECTIVES You may choose from: Brazil: Democracy, Citizenship and Culture Gender and Social Inequality in Latin America APPLY NOW JOIN OUR MAILING LIST! ​ To ensure that you don't miss out on events, exhibitions, engaging educational programs, latest courses, research, publications and other news, please join our mailing list today! We will not spam your mailbox, but send you a newsletter around twice per month. JOIN

CEDLA Events 2020 nov 20 No More Innocence: Central America, Migration, and the Crisis of Containment Anthony Fontes, School of International Service. American University The Central American migration crisis has become a flashpoint in US national debates over humanitarian, identity and security politics. As such, it provides a key lens through which to consider how evolving structures-of-feeling shape US immigration policies as well as broader trends in US public sentiment about how to represent (and target) what some scholars have self-reflexively called “human waste” – that is, those who must be excluded by any means necessary. What are the submerged rules of engagement, so to speak, that so violently devalue the lives and deaths of Central American migrants—and other impoverished migrant populations around the world— in this historical moment? Drawing on fieldwork in Central America, US asylum courts, and migration routes through Mexico, this presentation explores the walls thrown up to contain and conceal the spectacles of insecurity and suffering driving Central Americans north. This lecture took place on 20 November 2020 as part of the CEDLA Lecture Series ​ Join our mailing list! To ensure that you don't miss out on events, exhibitions, engaging educational programs, latest courses, research, publications and other news, please join our mailing list today! We will not spam your mailbox, but send you a newsletter around twice per month. JOIN

CEDLA - UvA Bachelor courses Politics and Protest: The Latin American State and Social Movements Course lecturer: dr. B.B. Hogenboom (co-ordinator) Course load: 6 EC In this course we deal with the causes and consequences of political turmoil and change in Latin America, with an emphasis on democratization and democratic backsliding, economic development policy, and mobilization around 'old' and 'new' social and political issues, such as participation, (human) rights, (social) justice and violence. MORE INFORMATION The Identity of the City in Latin America Course lecturer: dr. C. Klaufus (co-ordinator) Course load: 6 EC In this course students will explore the workings of urban identity formation and its roots, making use of geographical, sociological and anthropological studies. In the introductory part an overview will be given of Latin American urban studies and the history of urban development in the region. The attention will subsequently shift towards contemporary social movements, socio-spatial segregation, violence, urban policies and urban governance. MORE INFORMATION Gender and Social Inequality in Latin America Course lecturer: dr. JHJ Weegels (co-ordinator) SEM 2 - Course load: 6 EC Gender, class and ethnic relations in Latin America are being reshuffled and rapidly changing in the context of globalization, social transformations and political turmoil. The women’s movement received a new impetus as millions of women took to the streets to protest gendered violence. Restructuring labour markets, economic challenges and increasing (re)migration flows have produced additional effects and demands in the daily lives of women and men, but have also offered new opportunities. MORE INFORMATION Brazil: Democracy, Citizenship and Culture Course lecturer: dr. F. de Castro (co-ordinator) Course load: 6 EC The aim of the course is to promote a thorough knowledge on current debates around societal transformation in Brazil, in regards to politics, culture and sustainability. The course will address political transformations, social and environmental struggles and cultural diversity such as class, ethnicity, race/colour, religion, and gender. As the fifth largest country in the world and one of the tenth largest economies, Brazil plays a major role in economic and social processes in Latin America and is an increasingly prominent player in regional and global politics. MORE INFORMATION Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity Course lecturer: dr. D.A. Brablecova PhD (co-ordinator) Course load: 6 EC How are race/ethnicity and colonisation connected, and in what ways have racialised populations been impacted by the workings of racism around the world? What are the implications of demanding the recognition of an Indigenous identity when living in the city? To what extent have those suffering the consequences of racism been able to organise resistance movements to defend their collective rights? And how do post-colonial states around the world have responded to the increasing demands articulated by racialised populations both nationally and internationally? MORE INFORMATION Research in Latin America Course lecturer: dr. JHJ Weegels (co-ordinator) Course load: 6 EC In this course students learn about doing social science research, through learning by doing. You will learn about research design and methodology, but also conduct a small research of your own. The course can be seen as a preparation for your internship and/or field research in Latin America. It will start with a theoretical introduction in the form of lectures based on knowledge-transfer and -building. MORE INFORMATION Encountering the Americas: Latin America in the 21st Century Course lecturer: dr. D.A. Brablecova PhD (co-ordinator) Course load: 6 EC By examining the most pressing and paradigmatic issues affecting the countries that conform contemporary Latin America, this course will provide a fresh look into the region's critical challenges and notable achievements. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, this course will dive into the region's distinct social, political, and economic realities from a range of disciplines and case studies, emphasising the commonalities found among countries while providing insight into regional differences and acknowledging the particularities of sub-regions and states. MORE INFORMATION Social Justice in Context Course lecturer: dr. JHJ Weegels (co-ordinator) SEM 1 - Course load: 6 EC Social justice at large refers to the fair distribution of wealth, opportunities and privileges within a society, including equal access to these resources. While the law and international human rights frameworks often deem such resources universally available, there are many barriers to them on the ground. This course addresses different struggles for justice in their historical and political context. MORE INFORMATION Crime, Justice and Conflict Otherwise Course lecturer: dr. JHJ Weegels (co-ordinator) SEM 1 - Course load: 6 EC This course provides insight into the realities of justice work and its tensions with the law, critically questioning the normative limitations of who and what we struggle for by looking closely at dynamics of conflict, exclusion and criminalization. These processes do not impact all eople equally. Instead, they tend to reproduce geographies of intersecting inequalities. MORE INFORMATION Democracy, Populism and Resistance Course lecturer: dr. D.A. Brablecova PhD (co-ordinator) SEM 2 - Course load: 6 EC In this course, we examine the challenges that liberal democracies face today from various ideological currents. Populist authoritarian regimes are curbing the rule of law in many countries worldwide, while transnational conservative organizations, both official and grassroots, challenge progressive ideals about gender, the family, and climate change. Importantly, these challenges come not only from the political right but also from what is perceived as the political left. MORE INFORMATION Environmental and Climate Justice Course lecturer: dr. F. de Castro (co-ordinator) SEM 2 - Course load: 6 EC This course will address inequalities and injustices emerging from different patterns of control, access and usage of natural resource. Based primary on the Global South context, students will get familiar with concepts of environmental and climate justice grounded in distributional, recognition and participation struggles faced by marginalized rural societies and the urban poor. Environmental and climate justice will be discussed and related to broader concepts of justice, violence and intersectionality between ethnicity, gender and class. MORE INFORMATION Spatial Justice across Cities Course lecturer: mw. dr. C. Klaufus (co-ordinator) SEM 2 - Course load: 6 EC This course engages in academic debates on urban inequality in relation to spatialprocesses and limited access to urban infrastructures. Taking Latin American cities as a starting point, students will be familiarized with collective claims made under the banner of the Right to the City and with grassroots projects to occupy and re-use urban land and buildings, and claiming access to (trans-)urban services and infrastructures. Examples of these are contemporary forms of squatting and urban commoning, for example in community gardening projects. MORE INFORMATION

laminados Revistas In addition to research articles, ERLACS includes 'Explorations' (a section in which new themes are presented and new debates are stimulated), review essays, book reviews, and film reviews. Articles are published online soon after they have been accepted. Please find here the link to the ERLACS website ​ ERLACS – Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe es una revista científica de Acceso Abierto. Difunde artículos bajo la revisión de pares en inglés y español. Las contribuciones reflejan la investigación empírica sustancial y/o son teóricamente innovadoras con respecto a los grandes debates dentro de la investigación social (en el sentido más amplio, incluyendo la historia y la economía) en América Latina y el Caribe. Además de los artículos de investigación, ERLACS incluye 'Exploraciones' (una sección en la que se presentan los nuevos temas con el fin de estimular nuevos debates), ensayos de reseña, reseñas de libros, y críticas de cine. Los artículos se publican en línea poco después de haber sido aceptados. Accedan a la página web de ERLACS mediante este link ERLACS ERLACS – European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies is an Open Access, scientific journal. It publishes peer-reviewed articles in English and Spanish. Contributions reflect substantial empirical research and/or are theoretically innovative with respect to major debates within social science research (understood in the broadest sense, including history and economics) on Latin America and the Caribbean. ERLACS – European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies CLAS Books Cuadernos Doctoral Theses Inaugural and Valedictory Speeches Project Publication Annual Reports MLAS Final Theses

Image by cubicroot XYZ Minor Global Justice CEDLA - UvA ​ Global Justice is deeply concerned with the societal crises of our times. It addresses distinct searches for justice as they relate to persistent power imbalances and social inequalities. From gendered and racialized injustices, to climate change and political resistance, this minor builds on critical, global perspectives and research-driven insights from around the world to connect academia with advocacy and activism. This minor is offered by the Faculty of Humanities and CEDLA. The faculty’s minors consist of 30 ECTS credits and earn you a second qualification that will be listed on the transcript accompanying your degree certificate. Studying at CEDLA CEDLA is considered to be one of Europe’s leading Latin American Studies institutes. Its staff members are experienced researchers and qualified teachers. CEDLA has a large library with a unique collection. Facilities such as student work stations, internet and computer access, and lecture rooms are excellent. CEDLA is pivotal to the Latin American Studies community in the Netherlands. It publishes an academic journal (ERLACS ), organises monthly lectures, dialogues, and many other events. It also houses the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS ) and the Latin American Studies Programme (LASP ). CREDITS 30 ECTS LANGUAGE English STARTS in September LOCATION CEDLA STUDY SCHEDULE - YEAR 1 COURSES Social Justice in Context Crime, Justice and Conflict Otherwise Race, Place and the Politics of Indigeneity ELECTIVES You may choose two courses from: Environmental and Climate Justice Gender and Social Inequality in Latin America Spatial Justice across Cities Democracy, Populism and Resistance APPLY NOW JOIN OUR MAILING LIST! ​ To ensure that you don't miss out on events, exhibitions, engaging educational programs, latest courses, research, publications and other news, please join our mailing list today! We will not spam your mailbox, but send you a newsletter around twice per month. JOIN

13417706865_3b8da58ba0_o.jpg CEDLA Researchers Prof. dr. Barbara Hogenboom Director of CEDLA RESEARCH THEME: POLITICAL SCIENCE b.b.hogenboom@uva.nl Barbara Hogenboom is Director of CEDLA and Professor of Latin American Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam (UvA). She is managing editor of the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (ERLACS) . She coordinates the international SDG research project LFFU : ‘Leave fossil fuels underground for sustainable and inclusive development: Co-creating alternative pathways in Africa and Latin America’ (2018-2021). Previously, she coordinated a consortium of ten European and Latin American universities for the EU-FP7 project ‘Environmental Governance in Latin American and the Caribbean: Developing Frameworks for Sustainable and Equitable Natural Resource Use’ (ENGOV, 2011-2015). See more details at the personal page at UvA website +INFO RESEARCH INTEREST Barbara Hogenboom’s field of study is the politics and governance of development and environment, viewed from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her research focuses on the clashing values and interests at play in connection with the use of natural resources in Latin America. She studies the interactions between the public sector, the private sector and social movements from the perspective of the international political economy. These interactions are cross-scale in nature: global and regional changes exert influence on national and local processes, and vice versa. Barbara Hogenboom conducts research into current developments in Latin America in the context of various international projects: the impact of growing Chinese interests in the oil sector and mining industry, as well as the increasing local resistance to large-scale extraction projects. FEATURED PUBLICATIONS Policy Brief COVID-19 Impact on the Value Chain in Latin America. By Karolien van Teijlingen & Barbara Hogenboom Opinie: RWE wist al tien jaar dat het zich moest aanpassen en eist nu alsnog 1,4 miljard By Barbara Hogenboom, Joyeeta Gupta, Arthur Rempel en Carolina Valladares Covid-19: impacto en las cadenas de valo La pandemia del Covid-19 golpeó América Latina en medio de lo que ya era un período de grandes dificultades económicas, políticas y sociales. Minerals, Power, Imagination: Latin America and the World Inaugural lecture of Prof Dr Barbara Hogenboom Professor in Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. 14 June 2019 Please find here the recording of the lecture. Publications 2020 Dupuits, E., Baud, J., Boelens, R., de Castro, F., & Hogenboom, B. (2020). Scaling up but losing out? Water commons' dilemmas between transnational movements and grassroots struggles in Latin America. Ecological Economics, 172, [106625]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106625 2019 Baud, M., Boelens, R., de Castro, F., Hogenboom, B., Klaufus, C., Koonings, K., & Ypeij, A. (2019). Commoning Xela: Negotiating collective spaces around a Central American intermediate city. Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 108, 267-279. https://doi.org/10.32992/erlacs.10584 [details] 2018 Hogenboom, B. (2018). Latin America and China. In J. Cupples, M. Palomino-Schalscha, & M. Prieto (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development (pp. 179-191). (Routledge International Handbooks). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315162935-16 2017 Hogenboom, B. (2017). Chinese Influences and the Governance of Oil in Latin America the Cases of Venezuela, Brazil, and Ecuador. In M. P. Amineh, & Y. Guang (Eds.), Geopolitical Economy of Energy and Environment: China and the European Union (pp. 172-211). (International Comparative Social Studies; Vol. 36). Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004273115_008 UvA PROFILE

Stichting Beurzenfonds CEDLA De Stichting Beurzenfonds CEDLA is op 5 november 2010 volgens notariële acte opgericht met als doel: Het bevorderen van onderzoek naar Latijns Amerika in Nederland en het ondersteunen in brede zin van de doelstellingen van het CEDLA, het Centrum voor Studie en Documentatie van Latijns Amerika, gevestigd in Amsterdam. De Stichting tracht haar doel te bereiken door het beheer en besteding van door derden aan de Stichting ter beschikking gestelde financiële middelen. De Stichting is ingeschreven in de Kamer van Koophandel met nr. 51229773 en heeft het fiscale nummer 823160002. Aan geen van de betrokken bestuurders of leden van de wetenschapscommissie worden vacatiegeld of onkostenvergoedingen betaald. De Stichting heeft uitdrukkelijk het maken van winst niet ten doel. Zij is ingeschreven in de Kamer van Koophandel. ​ CONTACT Secretariaat CEDLA: secretariaat-cedla@uva.nl Michiel Baud: J.M.Baud@uva.nl ORGANISATIE De directeur van het CEDLA is tevens voorzitter van de Stichting. Het Bestuur van de Stichting bestaat uit de volgende personen: Prof. dr. Barbara Hogenboom, dir. CEDLA (voorzitter) Prof. dr. Michiel Baud, CEDLA Prof. dr. Kees Koonings, Universiteit Utrecht/CEDLA (penningmeester) Het Bestuur is verantwoordelijk voor het beheer van de financiële middelen en activiteiten van de Stichting. De beurzen die verstrekt worden door het Slicher van Bath-de Jong fonds worden gefinancierd uit het vruchtgebruik van het oorspronkelijke legaat dat is belegd in een fonds dat door de ING wordt beheerd. Het beheersplan dat met de ING is opgesteld gaat uit van een jaarlijks rendement van 40.000 euro die de Stichting in staat stelt haar beurzenprogramma uit te voeren. Jaarlijks wordt door het Bestuur en de ING het beheer van het legaat besproken en wordt getoetst of deze doelstelling nog geldig is. HET BEURZENPROGRAMMA Slicher van Bath de Jong Fonds De stichting kent dus elk jaar beurzen toe aan jonge historici uit Nederland of Latijns Amerika die onderzoek willen doen naar de geschiedenis van Latijns Amerika. ​ De toekenning van de beurzen wordt bepaald door een wetenschapscommissie die momenteel bestaat uit: Prof. J.M. Baud - CEDLA/University of Amsterdam Prof. G.J. Oostindie - KITLV/ Leiden University Dr. S. Valdivia Rivera - Latin American studies/Leiden University HET SLICHER VAN BATH-DE JONG FONDS De Stichting Beurzenfonds CEDLA beheert de gelden van het Slicher van Bath-de Jong fonds dat werd opgericht op basis van een legaat van prof. dr. B.H. Slicher van Bath, die in 2004 overleed. Het doel van het Slicher van Bath-de Jong fonds is de bevordering van de studie en het onderzoek van de geschiedenis van Latijns Amerika van 1500 tot 1940, met name door het verlenen van financiële steun aan historisch onderzoek Een wetenschappelijke commissie beslist over de hoogte van de uitkeringen binnen de afgesproken financiële grenzen en bepaalt de selectie van de bursalen. Verder informatie over de criteria en werkwijze van het fonds is te vinden op de desbetreffende webpagina. ​ ​ OPEN CALL 2024

16716135951_58d933c8aa_o.jpg CEDLA Researchers Prof. dr. Kees Koonings RESEARCH THEME: BRAZILIAN STUDIES Kees Koonings (1957) is (part time) Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Amsterdam and member of the CEDLA teaching and research staff. He graduated in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at Utrecht University in 1982 and received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences at Utrecht University in 1994. He is also an Associate Professor in Development Studies and Latin American Studies in the department of Anthropology at Utrecht University. See more details at the personal page at UvA website +INFO RESEARCH INTEREST His research on Brazil has included work on regional economic and social development in Rio Grande do Sul and Bahia, urban politics and participatory governance in Porto Alegre, the military and democratic transition, and - currently - urban violence and insecurity in Rio de Janeiro. He is also researching the armed conflict and peace process in Colombia. Additionally, his research interests include poverty and social exclusion, ethnicity, and the political economy of development in Brazil and Latin America.

Captura de Pantalla 2019-10-13 a les 20. 13998960230_4c9cde15b2_o.jpg 1604977952_c478b0f4af_o.jpg 2372997518_06186f1b3c_o.jpg CEDLA Researchers Dr Julienne Weegels Assistant Professor RESEARCH THEME: ANTROPOLOGY & CRIMINOLOGY T. +31-20-5253251 Julienne Weegels (Haarlem, 1987) is assistant professor of Latin American Studies at CEDLA as of August 2020. She is an ethnographer with a BA in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology from the University of Amsterdam (2008), and an MA in Latin American Studies from the CEDLA (2009, cum laude). She obtained her PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam (2018, cum laude), working at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) and CEDLA. She is the current co-convener of the Anthropology of Confinement Network, founding member of the Red de Investigación Penitenciaria de las Américas (APRN-RISPA), and co-organizer of the Global Prisons Research Network. Between 2009 and 2016 she conducted 31 months of field research in Nicaragua with prisoners and former prisoners of three prison facilities. In 2019 she was visiting fellow to the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology’s Prisons Research Centre (PRC). See more details at the personal page at UvA website +INFO RESEARCH INTEREST Julienne is much interested in the politics of (dis)order and the entanglement of violence with governance. Her PhD research focused on Nicaraguan (former) prisoners’ experiences of imprisonment and the state and on their ‘performing’ of violence, governance, masculinities, and change. Simultaneously, however, it also sought to shed light on the development of Nicaragua’s hybrid carceral state and the intimate relation it projects between extralegality and the exercise of (state) power. This research culminated in the manuscript ‘Performing Prison: Power, Agency, and Co-Governance in Nicaraguan Prisons’. At present, following the 2018 anti-government protests, Julienne is conducting research on practices of (state) violence and authoritarianism in Nicaragua. This research project takes the key findings and material from her prisons research as its point of departure, combining it with new research on the changing practices and understandings of policing and confinement in Nicaragua today. In particular, it investigates the government’s strategies of repression and negotiation, as well as its crisis in legitimacy at the hand of its para-state organization, while also seeking to understand the protesters’ divergent claims to the state under the banner of 'justicia'. In doing so, it focuses on three areas: 1) the rearrangement of co-governance arrangements between powerful stakeholders, 2) the practices and claims to justice by groups of 'autoconvocados', (family members of) political prisoners and their associations, and 3) the state’s extralegal governance techniques (including torture and political imprisonment). Julienne is open to (co-)supervise MA/MSc and PhD projects in the areas of social/political anthropology and/or critical criminology (including prison and gender studies), on themes related to imprisonment, policing/crime control/criminalization, governance, corruption, violence, and/or gender/sexualities, from an ethnographic perspective and/or a regional focus on Latin- or Central America. Feel free to reach out for a talk. We are happy to announce that Dr. Julienne Weegels obtained a research grant from the new Kenniscentrum Ongelijkheid to work on an Amsterdam-based research project with Dr. Thijs Jeursen (Universiteit Utrecht), Restorative Justice Netherlands and the "Kenniswerkplaats Vrijheidsbeneming and Maatschappij" (knowledge-workshop for freedom privation and society). The project will run for 18 months and is about the ways in which social, spatial and legal inequalities are produced, mitigated and reinforced through the Dutch criminal justice system. From neighbourhood policing to reinsertion after prison time, we'll be looking at the full range of crime control-based state interventions in the living environments and lives of young adults from different socioeconomic backgrounds. "Het Ongelijkheidsbeginsel" is a word-play on the principle of equality before the law, spinning it to mean the principle of inequality instead. It is an interdisciplinary, practice-oriented project at the crossroads of urban and legal anthropology, critical criminology and carceral geography, aimed at pealing apart and fighting cumulative inequalities. ​ LEARN MORE ABOUT IT