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NALACS promotes insight, knowledge and debate on issues related to Latin America and the Caribbean.

NALACS, the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, is an association for everyone in the Netherlands who is interested in Latin America and Caribbean. NALACS is a membership organization formed in 1996 by a group of Dutch-based academics with different disciplinary backgrounds doing research on Latin America and the Caribbean. Originally, Nalacs was an association by and for academics, but it has broadened to include individuals working on the region within additional professional fields, such as journalism and development practice. Its members include senior researchers, PhD candidates and students, as well as journalists and NGO staff. NALACS also has a network function, connecting Latin Americanists and Caribbeanists in the Netherlands to each other and to colleagues in surrounding countries. A NALACS membership includes a subscription to the European Review of Latin American Studies. NALACS organizes lectures, seminars and conferences on social, political and cultural developments in Latin America and the Caribbean, often in cooperation with other Dutch institutions. These events focus on urgent or otherwise topical issues and offer a forum to experts based in the Netherlands and abroad.

26/11/2023

The sixth nominee of the NALACS Thesis Award 2021-2022🏆 we are presenting to you is:

📣Juliana Cubides Sánchez, with the thesis “Making a living in uncertain citizenship: cocalero peasants’ labour agency.” (ISS- Erasmus University Rotterdam)

“Some communities in north of the amazon region in Colombia have been for years crafting possibilities of living through their engagement in the co***ne global value chain. By de-centralizing the illegality and criminalisation of coca production this research humanizes cocalero peasants, acknowledges their fighting for their recognition as subjects of differentiated rights and explores the challenges of the processes of productive transition towards some sort of legal status. Overall, it shows how the value of life, in times of globalisation, is increasingly varied, fragmented, contingent, and ambiguous (Ong, 2006) and how —in circumstances where ‘being’ is at stake— work is central to defending life.”

24/11/2023

The fifth nominee of the NALACS Thesis Award 2021-2022🏆 we are presenting to you is:

📣Ana Laura Camacho Puebla with the thesis “Forensic Affects. Affective Operations of Forensic Aesthetics as Artistic Mediation of Violence.” (Radboud University Nijmegen)

“Cultural expressions can trigger a shallow engagement with drug-related violence, reinforcing exoticising stereotypes about peoples’ natural tendencies toward self-destruction and death. Nevertheless, they can also make the spectator consider the mechanisms that produce violence. This thesis uses the concept of forensic aesthetics to approach three contemporary Mexican art installations connected to drug-related violence and asks how this form of art can promote critical thinking. It argues that forensic aesthetics does so by enhancing the affective operations of materiality through mediation techniques that influence the spectators’ embodied perception and promote sensations and feelings that come from physical imagination. These sensations are usually uncomfortable and riddle the spectators’ minds, making them think.”

23/11/2023

The fourth nominee of the NALACS Thesis Award 2021-2022 🏆we are presenting to you is:

📣Santiago Vargas Hernández with the thesis “The Restless Canyon. An Ethnography about State-making, infrastructure, and Not-Only-Humans in Las Hermosas Canyon, Colombia. ” (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

“This thesis concerns how rivers, mountains, roads, humans, and a hydroelectric power station relate and participate in the daily process of State-making in Las Hermosas canyon in the Colombian Andes. In it, I interweave theory, methodology, ethnographic data, and contextual information to create an intertwined ethnography of the entangled process of State-making in Las Hermosas Canyon. Here, alongside State-making, I also acknowledge anthropology and ethnography as entangled world-making processes. This ethnographic work was carried out through embodied and sensorial commitments to reach the variegated ways in which not only human beings, infrastructures, local inhabitants, and bureaucrats make the State in Las Hermosas.”

21/11/2023

The third nominee of the NALACS Thesis Award 2021-2022 🏆we are presenting is:

📣Nikki-Rie van der Meer with the thesis “Explaining the international resistance movement of the Q’eros from Peru against encroaching tourism.” (Radboud University)

“This thesis provides a unique insight into the Peruvian indigenous community of the Q’eros, also known as the last descendants of the Incas, who have not been studied academically before. The Cusco region is a tourist hotspot with at its heart the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. In the same region, the Q’eros live in an impoverished village that does not welcome visitors. While resisting indigenous tourism, their spiritual healers reach out to the outside world by traveling to Europe and North America and sharing their knowledge. This thesis aims to understand their resistance and its contradictions.”

20/11/2023

⏰Save the date for the 23-24 November, and join the International Conference on Transnational Justice.

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20/11/2023

The second nominee of the NALACS Thesis Award 2021-2022🏆 we are presenting is:

📣Tjalf van Minnen, with the thesis “Maquiagem: Disaster, Housing and Inequality in the Imperial City - A case study about post-disaster housing policies in relation to the capitalist urbanisation process of disaster creation in Brazil. “

“In Petrópolis, Brazil, two heavy rainfall events in February and March 2022 killed over 240 people and made thousands homeless. Two housing policies were implemented as part of the disaster response, i.e. the condemnation of risk areas and a social rent programme. The combined implementation of both policies created a situation in which many people were not only affected by the disaster but also excluded from the system afterwards. Hence, I argue that these policies promote a narrative of equal citizenship while they are, in fact, producing new inequalities and thus continue the city’s capitalist development that shaped its unequal vulnerabilities in the first place.”

19/11/2023

The NALACS Thesis Award 2021-2022 🏆is in less than two weeks away. In the coming week, we will present the candidates running for the Award for the Best Thesis written on Latin America and/or the Caribbean at a Dutch university. The first nominee we are presenting to you is:

📣Sergio Carvajal Gallego, a first-year Ph.D. student from Geography at Clark University, with the thesis “REDD+ and the Climate rent: The reorganisation of value relations through forest conservation in Colombia” (International Institute of Social Studies, at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam)

“Neoliberal conservation strategies for climate change mitigation have attracted growing investments during the last decade. This study aims to understand how these strategies transform social relations of value in forests by analysing 20 REDD+ projects in Colombia developed since 2012. The study identifies five types of projects that differ in land and carbon credit ownership arrangements, as well as in the nature of the investors. The paper contributes to the literature on green grabbing and neoliberal conservation by providing an empirically rich analysis of the implication of REDD+ projects for labour and by theorising the class struggles that shape distributive relations associated with the climate rent.”

04/09/2023

Save the date for Thursday 14 September
ROUNDTABLE
50 YEARS AFTER THE CHILEAN COUP: THE ECHOES OF THE 11 SEPTEMBER 1973 TODAY

Participants:
Prof. Cristóbal Kay
Dr Isabel Awad Cherit (Erasmus University)
Prof. Patricio Silva
Dr Daniela Vicherat Mattar (Leiden University)
The roundtable will be moderated by Prof. Michiel Baud (CEDLA / University of Amsterdam)

Date and venue: Thursday 14 September 2023, 4 – 6 pm.
Leiden University: Wijnhaven (Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP The Hague), at the Spanish steps.
Everyone is invited! (Please share)

31/05/2023

NALACS THESIS AWARD 2021-2022! 🏆 Have you written your Master's thesis at a Dutch university on a Latin American or Caribbean topic? We have EXTENDED THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION! 🥳Send us your thesis before 23 JUNE, 2023!
You can find all the information on the poster! 👇
Registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLd-mpRsHfASAp86kbqBF8im3kwiTGDvyXW0_JJ5uGhqUuQg/viewform

23/04/2023

NALACS THESIS AWARD 2021-2022!🏆Have you written your Master's thesis at a Dutch university on a Latin American or Caribbean topic? Send us your thesis before May 23, 2023!🥳
You can find all the information on the poster! 👇

Registration form: https://forms.gle/jYuhX83uK1GpZHDX8

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