Annual Report 2013 - Cedla

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CEDLA, the Interuniversity Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, is a
multidisciplinary research institute located in the centre of Amsterdam. It was founded in
1964, and has played an active role as an interuniversity centre in cooperation with other
Dutch universities and institutes since 1971.
CEDLA aims to promote the study of Latin America by conducting and stimulating relevant
and original research on developments in that region, and by distributing the results of this
research through university education and publications. The centre has a library specialised
in the collection of printed and digital material on Latin America in the social sciences and
history, and is open to all visitors.
CEDLA | Roetersstraat 33 | 1018 WB Amsterdam | T 020 525 34 98 | www.cedla.uva.nl
Printing: HAVEKA BV, Alblasserdam
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CEDLA | Centrum voor Studie en Documentatie van Latijns Amerika | Centro de Estudios y
Documentación Latinoamericanos | Centro de Estudos e Documentação Latino-Americanos |
Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation
The Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) conducts and coordinates social science research on Latin America, publishes and distributes the results of such
research, and assembles and makes accessible documentary and scholarly materials for the
study of the region. The Centre also offers an academic teaching programme on the societies
and cultures of Latin America.
El Centro de Estudios y Documentación Latinoamericanos (CEDLA) realiza y coordina
investigaciones sobre la América Latina en el campo de las Ciencias Sociales, edita
publicaciones, divulga sus resultados y colecciona documentos y materiales de carácter
académico, accesibles al público interesado. El Centro ofrece, además, un programa
académico de enseñanza sobre las sociedades y culturas de América Latina.
O Centro de Estudos e Documentação para a América Latina (CEDLA) promove e coordena
estudos e investigações sobre a América Latina, no setor das Ciências Sociais. O CEDLA
publica e divulga os resultados desses estudos, além de por à disposição do público
interessado uma vasta documentação, de caráter acadêmico, sobre a América Latina.
Centro também oferece um programa de cursos acadêmicos sobre sociedades e culturas
Latino-americanas.
Het Centrum voor Studie en Documentatie van Latijns Amerika (CEDLA) verricht en
coördineert sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek op het gebied van Latijns Amerika,
publiceert de resultaten daarvan en maakt studie- en documentatiemateriaal op het
gebied van deze regio beschikbaar. Ook biedt het Centrum een wetenschappelijk cursus
programma over samenleving en cultuur van Latijns Amerika.
CEDLA
Roetersstraat 33
1018 WB Amsterdam
The Netherlands / Países Bajos
Telephone Office: +31 20 525 3498
Library: +31 20 525 3248
E-mail
Office: [email protected]
Library: [email protected]
Website
www.cedla.uva.nl
Facebook www.facebook.com/cedla
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Table of contents
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Introduction / Introducción
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Research Programme
Research Line 1 (RL1): Partnerships and Conflicts in Natural Resource Use
Research Line 2 (RL2): Cultural Resource in an Urbanizing Continent
Special projects
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PhD projects and fellows
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Publications and activities by CEDLA staff
Books and articles
Organisation of conferences/seminars/workshops and lectures
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Teaching Programme
CEDLA Master’s Programme (CMP) and Course Programme
Supervision of CEDLA Master’s Programme theses
Overview of courses and universities
YES (Young Excellent Scholars) Research Internship Programme
Supervision of external Master’s theses
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Library
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CEDLA Website and Newsletter
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Publications by CEDLA
CEDLA Latin American Studies (CLAS) book series
Cuadernos del CEDLA series
ERLACS
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Fellowship Programmes and affiliated organisations
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CEDLA Latin America Lectures Series
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Personnel
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Boards
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Financial report 2013
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Introduction
Introduction Introducción
2013 was an eventful year for CEDLA. After
long negotiations, CEDLA left its cherished
building at the Keizersgracht and moved to
the Roetersstraat 33 in Amsterdam. For many,
it was a sad moment, leaving a building with
so many institutional and personal memories.
When it was clear that the decision was
definite, the move took place in an efficient
and positive manner. Friends and personnel
of CEDLA took leave of the old building in a
Noche de Melancolía in which many stories
were told and memories were exchanged.
The move was completed in August, just
before the start of the academic year when
a group of almost twenty new masters’
students arrived. This group of students,
together with a number of new PhD students,
immediately generated a lively and creative
atmosphere. The public lectures and activities
in the new building were well attended.
Among other things, it made clear that the
new situation which brought CEDLA closer
to the Faculty of Social Sciences has created
new opportunities.
In this turbulent year, a few events and
processes stood out. For an institute such as
CEDLA the most promising development
may well be the increased attention for an
academic education abroad among Latin
American governments. CEDLA is uniquely
placed to function as a clearing house for
Masters and PhD students from Latin
America. The CEDLA Masters Programme
welcomed five Latin American students in
2013 fue un año repleto de acontecimientos
para CEDLA. Tras largas negociaciones, CEDLA
dejó su querido edificio en el canal Keizersgracht
de Ámsterdam y se mudó a la calle Roetersstraat
33 de la misma ciudad. Para muchos, abandonar
un edificio con tantos recuerdos institucionales
y personales fue un momento doloroso. Cuando
quedó claro que la decisión era definitiva, la
mudanza se llevó a cabo de forma eficiente
y positiva. Muchos amigos y el personal de
CEDLA se despidieron del antiguo edificio en
una Noche de Melancolía, en el transcurso
de la cual intercambiaron muchas historias y
muchos recuerdos.
La mudanza concluyó en agosto, justo antes
del comienzo del curso académico, momento
en el que llegó un grupo de casi veinte
estudiantes de maestría nuevos. Dicho grupo,
junto con varios estudiantes de doctorado
nuevos, crearon enseguida un ambiente animado
y creativo. Las actividades y las conferencias
públicas en el nuevo edificio contaron con
una gran asistencia. Quedó claro, entre otras
cosas, que la nueva situación de CEDLA, más
próxima a la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, ha
creado oportunidades nuevas.
Durante este año turbulento, cabe destacar
una serie de acontecimientos y procesos. Para
un instituto como CEDLA, quizás el cambio
más prometedor sea el creciente interés entre
los Gobiernos latinoamericanos por una
educación académica en el extranjero. CEDLA
ocupa un lugar único para funcionar como
centro de coordinación para estudiantes de
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2013. Two Ecuadorian doctoral students also
started their PhD project at CEDLA during
the year, financed by the Ecuadorian Scientific
Council, Senescyt. In 2014 two more Latin
American PhD students will start their project
at CEDLA. These young Latin American
researchers work together in seminars
and other events with a number of Dutch
doctoral students, providing CEDLA with an
animated and exciting international academic
atmosphere.
In 2013, CEDLA also completed its assignment
for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. The evaluation of Dutch foreign
policies towards Latin America led to a
number of reports and a final report that was
translated in Spanish as En busca de nuevas
relaciones. Evaluación de la política exterior
de los Países Bajos en América Latina (2013)
(http://www.iob-evaluatie.nl/Latijns-Amerika).
The reports conclude that there were good
reasons for the Dutch government to change
its relationship with Latin America. The
growing economic importance of Latin
America called for a greater emphasis on
economic relationships and justified the
out-phasing of conventional development
assistance. But the report also states that this
happened too abruptly. Thus the Netherlands
lost an important opportunity with this region
to build further upon a good relationship
which had been the result of many decades
of concrete commitment to development
cooperation and human rights work.
Michiel Baud
Director
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maestría y doctorado procedentes de América
Latina. El Programa de Maestría de CEDLA
acogió a cinco estudiantes latinoamericanos
en 2013. Dos estudiantes de doctorado
ecuatorianos también iniciaron su proyecto de
doctorado en CEDLA durante el 2013, financiado
por la Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior,
Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de Ecuador
(Senescyt). En 2014, otros dos estudiantes de
doctorado latinoamericanos empezarán su
proyecto en CEDLA. Estos jóvenes investigadores
latinoamericanos cooperarán en seminarios
y en otros eventos con varios estudiantes
holandeses de doctorado, lo cual generará en
CEDLA un ambiente académico internacional
animado y estimulante.
En 2013, CEDLA también concluyó su encargo
para el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de
los Países Bajos. La evaluación de la política
exterior de los Países Bajos con respecto a
América Latina tuvo como resultado toda una
serie de informes y un informe final que se
tradujo al español como En busca de nuevas
relaciones. Evaluación de la política exterior
de los Países Bajos en América Latina (2013)
(http://www.iob-evaluatie.nl/Latijns-Amerika).
De los informes se desprende que hubo buenas razones para que el Gobierno neerlandés
cambiara su relación con América Latina. La
importancia económica creciente de América
Latina exigió un mayor énfasis en las relaciones
económicas y justificó la retirada progresiva de
la asistencia convencional al desarrollo. Pero el
informe también sostiene que estos sucesos se
produjeron de forma demasiado brusca, con lo
cual los Países Bajos perdieron una oportunidadimportante de reforzar la buena relación
que habían ido forjando con esta región a lo
largo de muchas décadas de compromisos
concretos en materia de cooperación al desarrollo
y derechos humanos.
Michiel Baud
Director
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Introduction
The year 2013 marks the conclusion of CEDLA’s Research Programme
for 2009 to 2013 on ‘Natural and Cultural Resource Use in Contemporary
Latin America’. As the descriptions below indicate, next to doing research
and presenting work in seminars and conference panels, extra effort was
made to produce and prepare publications with the results from CEDLA
‘s various individual and joint research projects. Meanwhile the research
collaboration with other institutions continued in projects like ENGOV
and GOMIAM, and CEDLA hosted a remarkably high number of foreign
visiting fellows and PhDs. Regular internal research meetings serve to
discuss research plans, fieldwork experiences and draft publications as well
as opportunities for research collaboration and funding.
While the Research Programme 2009-2013 has officially come to an end in
December 2013, the CEDLA research team has found that studying the use
of natural, cultural and political resources remains a relevant and topical
approach to understanding recent processes of change in Latin America. As
a result, the new programme will build on approaches and lessons of the
previous one, but will be designed in a way that allows for greater flexibility
in the collaborations with researchers inside and outside CEDLA.
Research Line 1 (RL1):
Partnerships and Conflicts in Natural Resource Use
Local Management of the Amazonian Floodplain
The Socio-ecological Dimension of the Biodiesel Programme in Brazil
Fabio de Castro
Fabio has advanced his research on oil palm expansion in the Northeast
Amazon as part of the ENGOV project and his research on management of
aquatic resources in the Lower Amazon as part the collaborative research
project Nuffic-Capes. During the first semester, he hosted two Brazilian
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colleagues with whom he collaborated on the two academic articles which
have been submitted to international journals. In addition, Fabio has
written the Analytical Framework report as part of ENGOV ‘Crossing
boundaries in Environmental Governance’, available at the ENGOV
webpage. During the summer, he spent one month in the Amazon where
he carried out several interviews in Tomé-Açu which will support the
institutional analysis of the oil palm expansion in the region. He also did
several interviews in the floodplain communities in Santarém to base his
analysis on the implementation process of an ethnic territory in the region.
In the second semester, Fabio focused on the analysis of his fieldwork data
and writing of the first draft of an article on the biodiesel programme and
territorial reconfiguration in northeast Brazilian Amazon, to be presented
in a conference in early 2014. In addition, he concluded other publication
projects, including the book chapter on fisheries management in Brazil (In
Portuguese) and the co-editing of the book project ‘Brazil under the
Workers’ Party: Continuity and Change from Lula to Dilma’ with Kees
Koonings and Marianne Wiesebron contracted by Palgrave. Apart from
publications, Fabio has been involved in a collaborative initiative between
CEDLA and Cordaid/NIMD and has co-authored papers presented in two
international conferences - People and the Sea in Amsterdam and the
Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons
in Japan.
The IIRSA Project
Pitou van Dijck
Pitou finalised his work on the book titled The Impact of the IIRSA Road
Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia, released by Routledge/Earthscan
in May 2013 (291 pp). The release formally finalised a long period of
research on the impact of roads on Amazonia and the potentials of strategic
environmental assessments to stimulate socio-economic impacts and
mitigate negative environmental and social impacts. Also, his academic
project in Suriname, sponsored by WWF Guianas, was finalised with the
organisation of two three days trainings programmes and related seminars.
The first programme was on land use planning and GIS mapping with
ECLAC, Santiago de Chile, IVM at VU Amsterdam and Object Vision in
March 2013. The second programme was on strategic environmental
assessments (SEAs) with DHV and the Piatam Institute (Manaus) in May
2013, both at the Anton de Kom Universiteit in Paramaribo. The two
training programmes were supported by a handbook by the full team
involved in the trainings and edited by Marinella Wallis.
Pitou’s edited volume Developing Countries and the Doha development Agenda
of the WTO, co-edited with Gerrit Faber and initially released by Routledge
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in 2006, was released in a second print in May 2013 by Routledge, during
the final stages of the negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda.
Pitou also made a research trip between Paramaribo, Georgetown and
Manaus to investigate the ways local communities have organised themselves to improve potential impacts of roads to be reconstructed in the near
future, particularly in the context of IIRSA and PAC.
During the second part of the year Pitou worked on a series of articles
dealing with the main topics of his book on Amazonia and roads, and the
preparations for the organisation of an international one-day seminar (in
May 2014). Moreover, he gave guest lectures and presentations at seminars.
In November he was invited to give a brief presentation at the UN Climate
Change Conference in Warsaw.
Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Latin America
Barbara Hogenboom
For her research Barbara Hogenboom studied recent regional trends with
regard to the mining, oil and gas sectors. This continues to be a dynamic
field with a range of new local conflicts, national policy reforms, regional
initiatives, and transnational investments, as shows from her chapter for
the Cuaderno of Research Line 1 (number 27, forthcoming in 2014). In the
context of the EU-funded collaborative ENGOV project (‘Environmental
Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean’, see page 22), which she
coordinates, she worked on the effects of elite shifts, and on the effects of
the increased involvement of Chinese actors. The ENGOV meeting in Quito,
in May, allowed her to catch up with current mineral politics in Ecuador.
With Karolien van Teijlingen (CEDLA YES-student in 2012 and PhD
candidate since January 2014) she wrote an article on the discourse politics
of mining and development in this country. In addition, she started to
participate in a new KNAW-funded Dutch-Chinese collaborative research
project: The transnationalization of China’s oil industry (between the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences and the IIAS of Leiden University).
To this project she contributes a study of the influence of Chinese actors on
the policies and practices of oil extraction in Latin America, especially in
Venezuela, Brazil and Ecuador. During the project meeting in Beijing, in
November, she became more familiar with the nature of Chinese stateowned oil companies, the political economy of their global expansion, and
the development of their CSR policies. Conversations at embassies offered
a first impression of Latin American experiences and views on these companies.
This year she also received the first Open Paper Prize of the Economics and
Politics Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for her
article ‘Depoliticized and Repoliticized Minerals in Latin America’.
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Small-scale gold mining and social conflict in the Amazon
Marjo de Theije
Marjo de Theije coordinates the CoCooN research project GOMIAM that
intends to create a better understanding of social conflicts around mineral
resource extraction through interdisciplinary study in five Amazonian
countries. In 2013 a ‘panorama’ of the cases was published in the Cuadernos
del CEDLA. GOMIAM also aims to build an international network of
experts capable of influencing the public debate, of making policy
recommendations and of supplying knowledge to decision-makers in
government institutions, ministries involved, but also local and regional
administrations and non-governmental organisations in the Amazon
region. In her own research Marjo focused on obstacles to the development
of better policies and mining practices, especially the effects of small-scale
gold mining as a trans-border activity, which makes it difficult for national
authorities to get a grasp on it. She made three field trips in 2013. In June
she visited Aluku villages at the Lawa River, the border between French
Guiana and Suriname, together with two other GOMIAM researchers. In
July she accompanied the main researcher of the Bolivian research team to
Riberalta for a research visit to the Asobal mining cooperative and the balsas
on the Rio Madre de Dios. In November and December she made a short
research trip to the border between Brazil and French Guiana, to initiate a
project on the trade channels for French Guiana’s illegal gold production
in collaboration with WWF France. In Suriname she did research in the
Alimonie region in Sipaliwini, where many of the Brazilian miners she
works with since 2006 have moved to after they had to leave the Antino
area where they worked for many years. This way of following the miners
produces important data for the project on the flexibility and mobility
of miners.
Research Line 2 (RL2):
Cultural Resource Use in an Urbanizing Continent
Changing social landscapes in medium-sized cities
Christien Klaufus
Christien conducted fieldwork in Huancayo (Peru) and Cuenca (Ecuador)
in March 2013. This was the third period of comparative research in those
two cities as part of her five-year project ‘Changing Social Landscapes in
Medium-sized Cities’. She updated and extended her data on peri-urbanisation processes and continued participation in the multi-partner project
‘International Migration and Local Development’ executed by the University
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of Cuenca and funded by the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR).
Furthermore, she conducted interviews on (disappearing) indigenous
house-building practices, surveyed visible indicators of urban growth, and
organised focus group sessions with transnational families on cultural
change. During the last three months of 2013, she developed a new research
agenda for the study of deathscapes in Latin American metropolitan areas,
which will be further developed in the years to come.
Christien was involved in several academic and professional events, such
as an online seminar for the International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research, in which she participated together with Rivke Jaffe (UvA) and
Freek Colombijn (VU). She also moderated an Urban Movies session at
Pakhuis De Zwijger.
Fieldwork Christien
Klaufus, Huancayo
(Peru) and Cuenca
(Ecuador).
With regard to efforts to acquire external funding, the following can be
mentioned. The European grant proposal ‘Traces of belonging: Migrants
material culture in urban public spaces (MIGSPACE)’ submitted to the
Joint Research Programme ‘Cultural Encounters’ of Humanities in the
European Research Area HERA (12-HERA-JRP-CE-FP-200) was recommended for funding. Unfortunately, in the end, there were no funds
available for this project. Applications for new grants were prepared. A
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travel grant for field research within the new research project ‘Deathscapes
in Latin American Metropolitan Areas’ was submitted to the Van EesterenFluck and van Lohuizen Foundation. The grant was approved. A research
proposal for submission to the PROMETEO Programme of Senescyt
Ecuador was developed in collaboration with the Universidad de Cuenca.
The proposal was considered eligible at the end of 2013 and will be developed into a full application in 2014.
New livelihood opportunities, ethnicity and gender challenges in Peru
Annelou Ypeij
Fieldwork Annelou Ypeij:
Isidora Acostupa, 56
years old, weaver of
Awana Wasi, Oct 2010,
Chinchero
Marlena Callañaupa, 33
years old, president of
Awana Wasi, Chinchero
Oct 2010
Annelou Ypeij gave her research in the cono norte of Lima and the Machu
Picchu touristic area a new direction by focusing on cultural transformations
and new constructions of ethnicity. As the Peruvian society is rapidly
changing from a violent, poor, introvert society into a society with impressive
economic growth figures that embraces global influences, its inhabitants
are grabbing new opportunities for social mobility and reinterpret their
cultural roots in the Andes. This self-awareness of lo Andino, sometimes
called cholification, leads to flirtatious practices and more serious, in-depth
projects of how to present, rediscover and reconstruct ethnic identities in
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urban and touristic spaces. Food, music and touristic arts and crafts are the
material expressions of this ethnic rediscovery. As a researcher Ypeij is
involved in a documentary by visual anthropologist Sharis Coppens about
the rock group Uchpa. The mini-history of its founder and lead singer
Fredy Ortiz can be seen as an example of how Peruvians leave behind their
recent dark and violent history to construct new ethnic identities in which
lo Andino fuses with many globalised elements and surpasses known
categories of ethnicity and class.
The use of cultural resources in the moving image
Arij Ouweneel
Over the past year, Arij Ouweneel used his research time to continue
working on his book on the different aspects of the so-called Cognitive
Amerindian Schema (CAS — a cognitive schema helps to encode situations
and events, decode and memorise them later on, and work with them while
behaving, and is crucial for predicting situations and people, and categorise
them) as used in the production of (moving) images in several Latin
American countries. In 1986, the Dutch philosopher Ton Lemaire published a well-researched book: De Indiaan in ons bewustzijn (The Indian in
Our Consciousness). He demonstrates that before the first reports about the
new overseas Spanish and Portuguese territories had reached Europe
(1492), European writers had already made up their mind about possible
‘Native Americans’. During the Renaissance, they had rediscovered the
Ancients and their myth of a Golden Era in early history, including Atlantis,
and had formulated a European CAS about a noble savage in the West,
leading an uncorrupted, natural way of life [despite the fact that the actual
Amerindians found in the Americas usually were city dwellers].
This CAS still exists and motivates a large series of scholars, politicians and
activists alike to treat the ‘indigenous’ accordingly. Ouweneel discusses
paintings, photographs, television clips, YouTube clips and fiction films in
order to demonstrate the CAS at work in Latin America and by Latin
Americans, thereby questioning visions of ‘indigeneity’.
Developing research line: Political development and social movements
The analysis of political development and social movements is an important
field for CEDLA research. Although not forming part of the original
research programme formulated a few years ago, in anticipation of the next
programme, a new, more politically oriented research line is in the process
of being developed by Michiel Baud and Kees Koonings.
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Kees Koonings holds the chair Brazilian Studies, and actively fostered the
interest for present-day social and political developments in this country.
Together with Fabio de Castro he taught the course ‘Brazil: democracy,
citizenship and sustainable development’ (May-July 2013) and edited the
book mentioned before. In addition, he gave lectures on Brazil in courses
of the master’s programme ‘International development Studies’ of the
University of Amsterdam and the CEDLA Master’s programme. He also
supervised two MA theses on Brazilian subjects in the former programme
and gave guest lectures on Brazil at Clingendael and at the universities of
Tilburg and Leiden.
Michiel Baud participated in the ENGOV project and started preparing his
fieldwork in Ecuador on the historical background of environmental
thinking. Together with Jaime Hoogesteeger and Rutgerd Boelens he
published an article on the governance of water resources in that country.
The ambition is to write together two more articles on issues of politics,
social movements and governamentality. In various radio and television
contributions he actively participated in the public debates on Latin America
in the Netherlands. Together with Edwin Koopman he made a radio
programme on the consequences of closing down the Dutch Embassy in
Bolivia. He wrote a number of articles in policy journals on policies in
the Netherlands towards Latin America. Due to his administrative and
representative tasks and the intense negotiations with the University of
Amsterdam in 2013, his time for doing research and writing was limited.
Kees Koonings and Michiel Baud together coordinated a successful CEDLA
bid for two work packages of the Dutch Latin America policy evaluation
tendered by IOB/Ministry of Foreign Affairs (packages: Peace building
and human rights in Colombia and Guatemala; Political cooperation with
Argentina, Brazil and Mexico). The research was successfully completed
and the resulting reports were published on the IOB website. Their
conclusions were integrated into the final report which generated quite
some discussion on the Dutch Foreign relations with Latin America.
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Special projects
ENGOV
The ENGOV consortium
visiting the Centro
de comercialización
y revalorización de la
cultura del ecosistema
manglar Martín
Pescador in Quito,
during the project
meeting organized by
the UASB in May 2013.
CEDLA coordinates the FP7 collaborative project ENGOV on ‘Environmental
Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Developing Frameworks
for Sustainable and Equitable Natural Resource Use’ (2011-2015). The
project involves ten Latin American and European universities and receives
l funding (€2.7 million) from the European Union. ENGOV focuses on the
obstacles and possibilities for sustainable production systems that can
generate economic development and a more equitable knowledge input and
distribution of benefits across ethnic, socioeconomic and gender lines in
order to decrease poverty, exclusion, and environmental degradation. The
project’s central objective is to understand how environmental governance
is shaped in Latin America and the Caribbean (see www.engov.eu).
In its third year, ENGOV focused on finalising the research within the
different research groups and stepping up the dissemination of project
results. Next to various research reports and academic articles, effort was
made to communicate results more widely through other means, of which
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we mention the main four results. First, in January 2013, ENGOV’s first
Policy Brief on ‘Environmental governance of extractive activities in Latin
America and the Caribbean: the need to include local communities’ was
presented to the participants of the EU-CELAC Summit and the parallel
bi-regional academic meeting in Santiago de Chile. Second, the Virtual
Library ‘Sociedad, Política y Naturaleza’ was launched, which is a virtual
reading room specialised in environmental governance issues in Latin
America and the Caribbean (LAC). It is built with contributions from all
ENGOV project partners and can be accessed via the ENGOV website, but
is also integrated as a virtual reading room into CLACSO’s online library
(http://www.biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/colecciones/saladelectura/). Third, an
‘Inventory of Databases of Environmental Justice Conflicts’ and a research
database ‘About Knowledge(s) on Nature in Latin America’ were made
available. The Inventory presents an effort to systematise and disseminate
ongoing trends in environmental justice struggles in LAC, by presenting all
relevant online databases on this subject. The research database is a tool
that incorporates more than one thousand references on different forms of
knowledge on nature in LAC. Finally, ENGOV’s Working Papers Series was
started in order to communicate results of ongoing ENGOV research in a
way that is quick and open access. It is directed at scholars and others
interested and involved in different topics related to natural resource
management in Latin America and the Caribbean, and aims to stimulate
the exchange of ideas and inform ongoing debates at different levels.
Central to the dissemination of the research results is the ENGOV website:
www.engov.eu, where all above mentioned and more outputs as well as
project news are presented and regularly updated.
GOMIAM
Small-scale gold mining and social conflict in the Amazon: Comparing
states, environments, local populations and miners in Bolivia, Brazil,
Colombia, Peru and Suriname, is a six year research and development project
(2011-2016), financed by the CoCooN Programme of NWO-WOTRO. The
principal objective of the GOMIAM project is to develop a comparative
understanding of socio-political and environmental conflicts related to
small-scale gold mining in the Amazon, and contribute to their possible
solution. Over the last few decades, the growth in small-scale gold mining
has resulted in increasing environmental problems and socio-political
conflicts in the Amazon that call for more interdisciplinary and crossborder approaches.
The first phase of the project, from 2011 till 2012, the project emphasised the
comparative analysis of the different political and environmental situations in
the countries of research and built up a network of academic experts, politicians,
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Brazil: Diver on a
small pontoon near
Creporizão, Tapajós
mergulhador. Photo by
Marjo de Theije
Oro Verde Mine near
Tadó, Chocó. Photo by
Judith Kolen
Research Programme
local communities and small-scale miners, which together provide a wide
view on the relevant issues in the small-scale mining sector in the different
countries. This forms the basis for the research and research uptake activities
foreseen for the second phase of the project (2013-2016). During the first
months of 2013, attention was focused on the writing of a top-up plan for
additional project funding for the remaining period. This plan was approved
in August 2013, allowing the expansion of the planned activities and the
inclusion of several new project partners in the project, such as the Brazilian
Núcleo de Apoio à Pequena Mineração Responsável. Also, a project meet-
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ing was organised in cooperation with the Overseas Development Institute
– ODI – focussing on different aspects of research uptake, a policy influence
plan, policy briefs, and engaging with the media, among others. A first joint
project publication was launched in June 2013: ‘Small-scale gold mining in
the Amazon The cases of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Suriname’. In
this CEDLA -Cuaderno edition, the contributors give a situation analysis of
small-scale mining in five countries in the wider Amazon region, based on
their previous research, using their different disciplinary backgrounds, which
is reflected in the broad scope of the ethnographic, economic, technical and
political data collected in this book. Several other publications were issued
in the second half of 2013: three contributions from the Bolivian and
Colombian teams were accepted for a special issue of Letras Verdes on
Mining, Environment and Social Movements. And a contribution on
formalizing small-scale mining in Madre de Dios from the Peruvian team
resulted in an online publication for scholars and practitioners in The
Broker Online. All these results and more can be reviewed on the project
website www.gomiam.org.
Nuffic-Capes
In connection with the research programme Nuffic-Capes ‘Formal and
informal practices of natural resource use and management in the Amazon’
in collaboration with NAEA-Federal University of Para (Brazil), three Brazilian
scholars have visited CEDLA as part of the research activities of the subproject ‘Local Management of Aquatic Resource in the Lower Amazon’.
Shaji Thomas (PhD student) spent nine months at CEDLA to work on his
dissertation entitled ‘The Impact of the Agroextractive Project (PAE) in the
participative governance of the commons in the Lower Amazon’ and, in
August, Fabio de Castro accompanied him in his fieldwork in the Amazon.
In addition, Dr. Oriana Almeida and Dr. Sergio Rivero spent three months
at CEDLA and collaborated with Fabio de Castro in the preparation of three
articles, one submitted and two currently in final writing stage. Pedro Baía
Júnior (PhD student) finished a first draft of his dissertation ‘Entre o ouro
e a biodiversidade: Garimpos e Unidades de Conservação na região de
Itaituba, Pará, Brasil’. Karolien van Teijlingen (PhD student) spent four
months at NAEA, studying mining and development processes as well
as Portuguese, in the preparatory phase to her PhD project at CEDLA
(2014-2016), about the governance of mining and development in Carajás
(Brazil) and Zamora Chinchipe (Ecuador). In a meeting at CEDLA in July,
the project’s progress and pending work was discussed with the senior
researchers from the Netherlands and Brazil.
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PhD Projects and fellows
PhD Projects
Undoing toxic relations: reconfiguring gender, environmental change and
inequalities in the shifting nature cultures of El Oro, Ecuador
Lucia Galarza Suárez (2013 – 2017)
This project analyses the socio-ecological impacts of extractive activities
and agribusiness on the diverse natural cultural landscapes of El Oro – a
borderland province located in the south of Ecuador that has traditionally
figured as a key provider of primary commodities for the global market.
While the value of these productive activities is repeatedly highlighted by
the state, local impacts – including deforestation, loss of biodiversity,
conflicts over access to resources and growing levels of toxicity – are often
misrepresented. Meanwhile, for those who inhabit El Oro’s reconfigured
landscapes, environmental problems continue to increase while social
inequalities remain unresolved. In addition, the scarce literature available
suggests that these inequalities have strong gendered elements – a
problematic this research sets out to unpack. Drawing from environmental
history, actor network theory, feminist theories, science and technology
studies and queer ecologies, this research will guide the reader through an
unexpected exploration into natural cultural transformations and the
production of gendered inequalities underlying the unsettling practices of
environmental change. Lucía arrived at CEDLA from Ecuador in October
and is currently preparing for her first period of fieldwork in El Oro. She
works under the supervision of Prof. Michiel Baud.
Reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories in Ecuador: power relations and
multipurpose hydraulic projects
Juan Pablo Hidalgo Bastidas (2013-2017)
Mega-hydraulic projects such as multipurpose ones are highly controversial
and contested at local, national and international arenas due to their
negative effects over local communities and the environment. Despite this,
Ecuadorian government has enthusiastically embraced the idea of hydraulic
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modernisation driven by technocratic and expert discourses that link MHP
with clean energy production, economic development and industrialisation.
From a political ecological perspective his research aims to analyse and
substantiate the discursive and material reconfigurations of hydrosocial
territories through understanding the implementation of three multipurpose
hydraulic projects (MHP) along the coast of Ecuador. Therefore, his
research sets out to scrutinise how
i) social power relations and water struggles influence and shape the
design, construction, implementation and operation of three MHPs;
ii) how such dynamics embedded in MHPs reconfigure hydrosocial
territories and;
iii) how these processes that entail dominant governmental discourses
and practices utilised by the citizen’s revolution government also
trigger emergent alternatives from MHP-affected peoples.
He argues that these processes are constituting into new social-ecological
and political-technological hydrosocial networks that might contribute to
the emergence of more just and democratic water governance around the
implementation of mega-hydraulic projects.
Juan Pablo is engaged with the Water Justice Alliance and is working under
the supervision of Prof. Michiel Baud and Prof. Rutgerd Boelens.
Favelas ‘pacificadas’: um estudo sobre sociabilidade, rotina e circulação em
territórios ocupados por Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora – UPPs
Palloma Menezes (2010-2014)
This project is the result of a research collaboration between UERJ
(Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro) and VU University Amsterdam,
and will be a double promotion. The thesis discusses how the Pacification
Police was first introduced in the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, in Cidade de
Deus e Santa Marta while the model for an alternative policing was still
being developed. Palloma Menezes analyses the process by describing the
way the actors involved – the residents, police, policy makers, and media
– investigate and imagine the behaviour of the others. Palloma is still
writing her thesis; the defence at the VU University Amsterdam is expected
at the end of 2014. The thesis is supervised by Prof. Kees Koonings and
Dr. Marjo de Theije.
Tinkering territory: land conflicts in the face of palm oil expansion in
Northeast Pará
Nele Odeur (2012-2016)
Nele’s project takes place within the framework of ENGOV, a research
project funded by the European Commission. In 2013 she prepared the
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second draft of her research proposal while following the CERES PhD
course on Research Design. Subsequently, between the end of July and the
end of October Nele conducted fieldwork in Pará in the municipalities of
Tomé-Açu and Acará. After fieldwork she started writing her first article.
The aim of Nele’s PhD research is to analyse how the principal actors
involved in the expansion of oil palm cultivation in the Northeast of Pará
– companies and the rural population – use, piece together, reshape and/or
reinvent parts of different institutional arrangements to support their
territorial goals. Both the Brazilian Biodiesel Programme and the Sustainable
Oil Palm Programme have contributed to a massive expansion of oil palm
cultivation in Pará state. It has put pressure on the land and gave rise to
a heated land market with sky-rocketing land prices. Hence, it can be
considered as an accelerating process of land grabbing by companies,
justified through discourses about energy/fuel security and climate change
mitigation. Rural population groups have used diverse strategies to cope
with it. These strategies are primarily based on opportunities offered by
government policies. It has led to the fragmentation of the rural population
in multiple groups with different identities and survival strategies. These
bottom-up strategies can basically be divided in two groups: integration
and resistance strategies. The research will primarily focus on resistance
strategies, stemming from population groups without formal landownership,
such as landless peasants, squatters or traditional communities. Cleaver’s
theory of Institutional Bricolage (2002, 2012) will be used as analytical
framework for the research. Supervisors are Dr Fabio de Castro, Dr Barbara
Hogenboom and Prof. Michiel Baud.
Gypsiness at Stake. Identity Politics in Argentina, 1890-Present
Aleksandra Pudliszak (2012-2016)
In 2013 Aleksandra Pudliszak continued her PhD project which was awarded
with a Mosaic grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO) in 2012.
The research uses a wide variety of European and Latin American sources –
ranging from photography, government reports, personal letters, newspapers to oral history – in order to reconstruct immigration to Argentina of
groups commonly known in Spanish Latin America as ´gitanos´. Towards
the end of the 19th century the mass immigration from Europe to the New
World intensified and Argentina turned into the continent’s most significant
receiver of immigrants. Also gitanos crossed the Atlantic ´to make it in
America´. The research aims to critically examine this specific migration
wave to Argentina and the connection to the building of the Argentine
nation-state. The project intends to go beyond methodological nationalism
(Glick Schiller, 1992) by including relevant regional and international
developments into the analysis.
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The case study has been chosen as the most appropriate method to understand how actors construct their sense of belonging in narratives and daily
practices. The focus lies on communities of gitanos in Buenos Aires. By
taking the family as a unit of analysis the project aims to gain a deeper
understanding of historical and contemporary transnational mobility of
gitanos. In doing so, the research aims to contribute, in the critical way, to
the current debates on ethnicity. By studying gitanos in an under-researched
yet important context, the project hopes to connect to the past investigations
on mobility in Europe as well as to a better understanding of the present
migration waves.
Aleksandra participated in a workshop ‘The Uses of History in Romani
Studies: Theory and Practice’, organised by the University of Liverpool
in May. She was also visiting researcher in the library of the IberoAmerikanische Institut in Berlin from July to October before going on
fieldwork in Argentina.
This project is supervised by Prof. Michiel Baud.
Ethnonationalisms and Conflict in Bolivia: the Role of International Aid
Agencies in Ethnic Politics and the Reconstruction of Indigenous Identities
Juanita Sánchez Roca (2010-2014)
Between January and April 2013, Juanita Roca finished writing the
draft chapter about the TIPNIS conflict and the indígena-campesino/
cocalero conflicts. In April 2013, she made one last trip to Santa Cruz and
Cochabamba, each for 10 days to attend the conferences about the
indigenous consultation for the TIPNIS road, which was organised by the
Bolivian Human Rights Commission and the Catholic Church. She also
conducted a second round of interviews. Many of the actors were not
available during the fieldwork of 2012, because they were very busy during
and immediately before and after the indigenous marches in 2011 and
2012. In 2013, when the political unrest was over, they were more willing to
talk. This is why 2013 was also dedicated to some more field work and visits
to institutions such as CIDOB, CEJIS, IBID Denmark and CIPCA.
Juanita presented a paper at the LASA Conference in May in the panel
‘Bolivian Lowlands: current and historical perspectives’. Her paper was
called: ‘Indigenous identity discourses and the state within the TIPNIS
conflict in Amazonian Bolivia: flourishing identities from the 1990s to Evo
Morales´ hegemony’.
Between June and November 2013, she wrote the introduction to the
dissertation and the chapter about the Integrationist Indigenismo Paradigm
from the 1950s and 1960s in Latin America.
This project is supervised by Prof. Michiel Baud.
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No Trecho dos Garimpos: Mobilidade, gênero e modos de viver na
garimpagem de ouro Amazônica
Leticia da Luz Tedesco (2009-2013)
This project is the result of research collaboration between UFRGS (Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul) and VU University Amsterdam, and will
be a double promotion. Leticia’s project addresses the role of women in the
gold mining settlements in northern Brazil. The thesis presents the female
work and mobility between jobs and roles, from prostitution to bartender
to housewife and vice versa. It emphasis important codes of conduct and
thin lines between different positions. Leticia finished the first version of
her thesis in 2013 and will hopefully defend it before the end of 2014. The
thesis is supervised by Prof. Michiel Baud and Dr. Marjo de Theije.
Indigenous rights and legal consciousness in Ecuador (completed 2013)
Marc Simon Thomas (2008-2013)
Dissertation Marc
Simon Thomas.
Photo by Hein Athmer
Marc Simon Thomas successfully defended his dissertation The Challenge
of Legal Pluralism: Local Dispute Settlement and the Indian-State
Relationship in Ecuador on 23 October at the Utrecht University. His
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supervisors were Prof. Michiel Baud and Prof. Patrick Eisenlohr (Utrecht
University). The dissertation analyses how internal conflicts among
indigenous inhabitants of the Ecuadorian highlands are being settled in a
situation of formal legal pluralism, and what can be learned from this in
terms of Indian-State relationships. It is shown that, on a local level, the
phenomenological dimension of legal pluralism can be termed ‘interlegality’. On a more macro level, ontological assumptions underscore that
legal pluralism is still seen as a dichotomy between customary law and
national law. The in-depth analysis of disputes in the rural parish of
Zumbahua reveals that the perception and use of two different legal
systems on the part of ordinary Indians reflect that, at the local level, these
systems are mixed to such an extent that they have resulted in the creation
of a new system, a reality that was obtained in the villages of the Ecuadorian
Andes for decades prior to the promulgation of formal legal pluralism. On
a regional and national level, however, legal pluralism is understood as a
jurisprudential process with more sharply defined boundaries. Indigenous
authorities as well as state representatives (i.e., lawyers, judges and politicians) purposely seem to test the legal and political boundaries between
customary law and national law. The legal void thus provides a space in
which jurisdiction can be asserted. The use of customary law in a situation
of formal legal pluralism is thus used to increase power rather than to settle
a conflict. Nowadays, Marc works as an interim lecturer at various Dutch
Universities (Leiden, Utrecht, and Wageningen), while he is also writing
articles and preparing a NWO Grant Proposal.
Governability, public security and legitimacy: local government and Police
in Bogotá, Colombia (1995-2014)
Håvar Solheim (2011-2015)
Håvar Solheim began his research in April 2011 and has since then carried out
numerous academic tasks. During 2013, the second chapter, which is a
historical analysis, was finalised. In addition to this, the third chapter, which is
an analytical analysis of the PhD thesis was elaborated and submitted as well.
During this period he has also actively participated at the Political Legitimacy
(PolLeg) seminar, which is an integral part of the programme ‘Profileringsgebied Politieke Legitimiteit’ at Leiden University (a multi-disciplinary research
group with monthly working meetings with other PhD students and staff
members). During the spring semester of 2013 he gave tutorial sessions of the
course History Latin America, given by Prof. Patricio Silva, as part of the Area
studies at International Studies at Leiden University, Campus The Hague.
This collaborative PhD project between Leiden University and CEDLA which
started in 2011 will last until 2015. Supervisors of this project are Prof. Patricio
Silva (Leiden University) and Prof. Kees Koonings (Utrecht University /CEDLA).
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In the Name of the Victims? Victim-Survivor Associations Negotiating For
Recognition in Post-Conflict Peru
Mijke de Waardt (2008-2014)
Mijke de Waardt will defend her dissertation on 8 October 2014 at the VU
University. Mijke’s supervisors are Prof. Michiel Baud, Dr. Ton Salman
(VU University) and Dr. Arij Ouweneel. The dissertation explores transitional
justice practices in the aftermath of the internal armed conflict (1980-2000)
in Peru. It analysed the role of victim-survivor associations by considering
the ways that organised victim-survivors, as well as governmental and
non-governmental organisations, make sense of victim-survivors’ framing
of priorities for transitional justice. The study demonstrates that these
processes are the result of interactions with structural social, spatial and
economic conditions as well as conditions related to domestic politics and
international development cooperation.
This is demonstrated in the fact that legal categories based on international
or humanitarian law are important, but are not imperative for all notions
used for defining victimhood status. Semantic notions of the uses of
victimhood are produced, contested, negotiated, and neglected depending
on an interplay between internal and external definitions. This is also
demonstrated in that despite the fact that NGOs and victim-survivor
associations share objectives within the context of transitional justice in
Peru, there is currently no natural affinity among such organisations. This
is the result of an embeddedness of these organisations in various
dependency relationships that have created boundaries among organisations.
Also the civic inclusive expectation of transitional justice, framed through a
call for compensation, demonstrates that the conditions of victim-survivors
cannot be excluded from a debate on the appropriate transitional justice
mechanisms, or the political and private claims organised victim-survivors
make with respect to transitional justice. The study proposes that it is
crucial to include the origin and development of grassroots associations of
victim-survivors as well as their predicaments and demands as integrated
elements into research efforts on transitional justice.
Mijke currently works as a lecturer at the VU University since September 2013.
Tracing the Nicaraguan Prisoner: Moving between Marginality, Violence,
and Change
Julienne Weegels (2013-2017)
Though by definition restricted in their mobility, prisoners are in many
ways as mobile as any other citizen – perhaps even more so. They move
between scripts, from ‘delinquent’ to ‘changed man’ and back, crossing
and bending the symbolic and real boundaries of the prison compound.
As ‘delinquents’ they are key transgressors of social order. Locating this
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Fieldwork Julienne
Weegels [1&2]: ensayo
teatro libre. Photo by
Julienne Weegels
research in the midst of the prisoner’s processes of adaptation to the
institution’s order and its re-educational programmes is to locate it at the
heart of the conflicting ideas that set the ‘delinquent’ aside from ‘society’
and define what he must become in order to return. The ability or inability
for social actors (such as prisoners) to move between differing ideas – those
of violence and those of change – becomes a pivotal element of their
success (be it in either of the worlds), and hence of this ethnographic study.
It is then through the prisoner’s shifting identities, bodily artefacts, and
movement that this research attempts to shed a social, cultural, and
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historical light on Nicaragua’s struggles of power over the state institutions
of control, mediated imagery of crime, and reworking of the pandilla
(street gang) delinquent style – all of which directly reflect on the prisoner
and his environment. With her research Julienne aims to contribute to
bridging the widening gap between research on criminal violence in
Nicaragua and the same sort of violence in the Northern triangle of Central
America where the surge of the maras (transnational gangs) led to an
explosion of academic interest. By contributing with in-depth ethnographic
research to prison studies and the emerging field of cultural criminology
her research intends to shed light on discourses of crime, violence, and
change in Nicaragua both from and on prisoners. Supervisor of the project
is Prof. Michiel Baud.
Fellows
Oriana Almeida, Centre for Advanced Amazonian Studies (NAEA),
University of Pará, Brazil (June –September)
Dr. Almeida visited CEDLA as a post-doc in the context of the collaborative
research programme Nuffic-CAPES. During her time at CEDLA, she
worked on two articles for academic journals. One article is focused on the
formalisation of local fishing management systems in the Amazonian
estuary, and the other is focused on local fishing monitoring system in the
Lower Amazon. Both articles are in collaboration with Dr. Fabio de Castro
and other colleagues. The former has been submitted to the journal
‘Human Organization’ and is currently under review, the other is in final
writing stage. In addition, she has worked with Fabio de Castro in the
co-supervision of the PhD student Shaji Thomas who is also part of the
same research programme. Finally, Dr. Almeida participated in the
Nuffic-CAPES research progress meetings in July.
Javier Corrales, Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, Amherst,
Massachusetts (May – July)
During his time at CEDLA in 2013, Javier Corrales worked on two articles
for academic journals. One article focused on the political transition in
Venezuela; the other, on ‘Relaxing presidential term limits in Latin America:
theory and empirics’. In June he presented this latter paper in the
Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. In
addition, he served as a discussant during a lecture by Gerardo González
at CEDLA. In May he was also invited as a guest lecturer for a class at the
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Leiden University School of Law (The Hague campus). His topic was, ‘The
Politics of LGBT Rights in Latin America: Why Argentina’. He was also
invited to offer a full-day workshop at the ECPR Summer School on Latin
American Politics, hosted by the German Institute of Global and Area
Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany. The workshop, entitled: ‘Democracy
and the Resource Curse’, was an abridged version of the class he taught
at CEDLA.
Leopoldo Gerhardinger, MA, NEPAM-UNICAMP, Brazil (April –
September)
Leopoldo C. Gerhardinger is a PhD candidate in Environment and Society
at the Centre for Environmental Studies (NEPAM), University of Campinas
(UNICAMP) in Brazil. He holds a BSc in Oceanography (Universidade do
Vale do Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil – 2004) and an MSc in Conservation
(University College London – 2008). His general research interests ranges
from marine ecology and ethnoecology to the theory and practice of
governance. Through the PhD he is investigating the role of key people in
the governability and innovation of a large Brazilian coastal marine protected
area named Baleia Franca [Southern-Right Whale] Environmental Protection
Area. He is affiliated with a marine conservation NGO ECOMAR, with
whom he engages with various facets of coastal and marine governance in
Brazil through research-action approaches in co-designing and delivering
marine conservation projects of various sorts and at various levels. As a
research fellow for the Earth System Governance project, he is currently
engaged in the development of a Future Ocean Alliance with the general
aim of bridging knowledge networks for better ocean governance. Leopoldo
is also actively involved in promoting trans-disciplinary/institutional networks
across coastal Brazil, using web-based social media tools to advance new
types of voluntary engagement for improved governability of the oceans.
Leopoldo worked on his PhD thesis research at CEDLA until September
2013 under the supervision of Fabio de Castro.
Leandro Belinaso Guimarães, UFSC-Centro de Ciencias da Educaçao,
Brazil (February – July)
Leandro Guimarães is assistant professor at the Department of Teaching
Methodology of Santa Catarina Federal University/Brazil. He received his
PhD in Education at the Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, Brazil, in
2007. His project aims to research the ways in which we are taught about
‘environmental sustainability’, through images, mainly published in
journalistic artefacts in Brazil. This survey studies some images published
especially at the Brazilian press, particularly in the newspaper O Estado de
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São Paulo (The State of São Paulo), a major Brazilian newspaper with
relevant news coverage about ‘sustainability’. The research attempts to
think about these images in pedagogical practices with teachers in Brazil.
He worked together with Fabio de Castro from February until July. During
this period Leandro developed several activities: in-depth literature search
on journalistic images in Brazil and on sustainability and education;
writing of three academic manuscripts, submitted to different publication
outlets; participation in two academic events in Amsterdam and one
international conference in Morocco on environmental education.
Dr. Sergio Rivero, University of Pará, Brazil (June-September)
Dr. Rivero visited CEDLA as a post-doc in the context of the collaborative
research programme Nuffic-CAPES. During his time at CEDLA, he worked
on an article for an academic journal focused on institutional incentives for
sustainable timber industry in the Brazilian Amazon. He finalised the first
draft of this article in collaboration with Fabio de Castro and other colleagues to be presented at an international conference in 2014. In addition,
he participated in the Nuffic-CAPES research progress meetings in July.
Shaji Thomas, MA, NAEA-UFPA, Brazil (December 2012 – May 2013)
Shaji Thomas is a Brazilian with degrees in Social Science (Mysore
University, India); Theology (Centre for Higher Studies, Juiz de Fora,
Brazil); Law (Estacio-FAP University, Brazil) and an MA in Urban
Environment and Development (Amazon University in Brazil). He worked
for the last fifteen years in social movements in the Amazon Region. He
conducted comparative studies on Right to Food in Brazil and India and
published articles on this theme. He is currently conducting research
entitled ‘The impact of the implementation of Agro-extractive Project (PAE)
in the participatory management of common resources in Amazon Floodplain’ at CEDLA as part of his PhD course at the Federal University of Para,
Brazil. The study focuses on the influences of the new settlement project of
the Brazilian government in the Amazon Floodplain and its influences in
the process of governance of natural resources in the area. He is part of the
research team CAPES-NUFFIC on Formal and Informal practices of
Natural Resources use and management in the Amazon. He started his
fellowship programme in December 2012 (until May 2013) with participation
in the NALACS-CEDLA conference ‘Resource Wealth and the Regional
Transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean’. He attended several
meetings with researchers on Latin America and four seminars organised
by CEDLA on Judicialisation of politics in Latin America; peace process in
Colombia; influence of community managed forest on climate change, and
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work of reporter in the drug affected areas of Mexico. With his coordinator
Fabio de Castro he wrote an article on the process of community based
management in the floodplain and estuary of Amazon and two other
articles with different themes.
Estrada de Ferro
Carajás; Maranhão,
Brazil. Photo by
Karolien van Teijlingen
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Publications and activities
by CEDLA staff
Books and articles
Books
Cremers, Leontien, Judith Kolen, Marjo de Theije (eds) Small-Scale Gold
Mining in the Amazon, The cases of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and
Suriname, Cuadernos del CEDLA, No. 26, Amsterdam: CEDLA, 116 pp.
Dijck, Pitou van, The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on
Amazonia, London: Routledge, 291 pp.
Dijck, Pitou van (with Gerrit Faber, eds) Developing Countries and the Doha
Development Agenda of the WTO, Routledge Studies in the World Economy,
Routledge, second print, London and New York, 163 pp.
Klaufus, Christien with Rachel Spronk (eds) Etnofoor, special issue ‘Taste’
Volume 24, Issue 2, University of Amsterdam, Department of sociology
and Anthropology, 174 pp.
Simon Thomas, Marc, The Challenge of Legal Pluralism: Local Dispute
Settlement and the Indian-State Relationship in Ecuador (PhD dissertation,
University Utrecht; published by the author), 317 pp.
Book chapters and articles in academic journals
Baud, Michiel (with Jaime Hoogesteger and Rutgerd Boelens) ‘Water
Reform Governmentality in Ecuador: Neoliberalism, Centralization, and
the Restraining of Polycentric Authority and Community Rule-Making’,
Geoforum, 2013 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.07.005)
Baud, Michiel ‘State and Society in Argentina: State and Continuity under
the Kirchners’, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
95, pp. 114-123.
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Castro, Fabio de ‘Niveis de decisão e o manejo de recurso pesqueiro’, in:
Ecologia de Pescadores da Mata Atlântica e da Amazônia, São Carlos:RiMa
Editora, pp. 189-213.
Castro, Fabio de (with A. Begossi and R. Silvano) ‘Ecologia Humana e
Conservação’, in: Ecologia de Pescadores da Mata Atlântica e da Amazônia,
São Carlos/RiMa Editora, pp. 253-262.
Cremers, Leontien and Marjo de Theije ‘Introduction’, in: Leontien Cremers,
Judith Kolen and Marjo de Theije (eds) Small-scale Gold Mining in the
Amazon, pp.1-16.
Hogenboom, Barbara ‘The Changing Politics of Lobbying: Private Sector
Organizations in Mexico’, Journal of Public Affairs (special issue ‘Interests,
Interest Groups and Lobbying in Latin America: A New Era or More of the
Same?’), first published online, DOI: 10.1002/pa.1456 (21 March), Wiley.
Hogenboom, Barbara, Michiel Baud & Fabio de Castro ‘Gobernanza
Ambiental en América Latina: hacia una agenda de investigación integradora’,
Comentario Internacional 12, pp.57-71 (appeared in English in European
Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 90, 2011).
Klaufus, Christien (with Rachel Spronk) ‘Introduction’, Etnofoor, special
issue ‘Taste’ Volume 24, Issue 2, University of Amsterdam, Department of
sociology and Anthropology, pp. 7-11.
Klaufus, Christien ‘The Right to a City: Changing peri-urban landscapes
in Latin America’, in Rethinking Urban Inclusion: Spaces, Mobilizations,
Interventions, CEScontexto Debates No. 2, Nancy, Duxbury, Coimbra,
Centre for Social Studies, pp. 487-503.
Kolen, Judith, Marjo de Theije and Armin Mathis ‘Formalized small-scale
gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon: an activity surrounded by informality’,
in: Leontien Cremers, Judith Kolen and Marjo de Theije (eds) Small-scale
Gold Mining in the Amazon, pp.31-45.
Koonings, Kees ‘Democracia y gobernabilidad en Brasil: Los desafíos de
la pobreza, la corrupción y la inseguridad’, in Silva, P. y F. Rojas Aravena
(eds.) Gobernabilidad y Convivencia Democrática en América Latina: Las
dimensiones regionales, nacionales y locales, San José: FLACSO, pp. 157-176
Solheim, Håvar ‘Legitimidad, eficacia y relación interinstitucional entre
autoridades civiles y Policiales en Bogotá, 1995-2012’ in P. Silva and F.
Rojas (eds), Gobernabilidad y Convivencia Democrática en América Latina:
Las dimensiones regionales, nacionales y locales, San José: FLACSO, pp. 127-156.
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Solheim, Håvar and Eric Storm (2014) ‘War and Peace in Colombia’ in
Yih-Jye Hwang and Lucie Cerna (eds) Global Challenges: Peace and War,
Leiden and London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/ Brill, pp. 177-193.
Ypeij, Annelou ‘Cholos, incas y fusionistas. El Nuevo Peru y la globalización
de lo Andina’, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 94,
pp. 67-82.
Waardt, M.F. de ‘Are Peruvian Victims being Mocked?: Politicization of
Victimhood and Victims’ Motivations for Reparations’, Human Rights
Quarterly, 35(4), pp. 830-849.
Non-Refereed Articles, Popular publications and Reports
Baud, Michiel ‘La cooperación en ciencia, tecnología, investigación e
innovación y el programa horizonte 2020. Políticas, programas y mecanismos’,
in: Patricio Leiva Lavalle (ed.) Hacia un espacio eurolatinoamericano para la
educación superior, ciencia, tecnología e innovación. Primera cumbre académica
comunidad de estados de América Latina y el Caribe – Unión Europea, Santiago:
Universidad Central, pp. 175-181.
Baud, Michiel with Susan Legêne and Peter Pels ‘Circumverting Reality’.
Report on the Anthropological work of Professor Emeritus M.M.G. Bax’
(Original in Dutch ‘Draaien om de werkelijkheid’. Rapport over het
antropologische werk van prof. em. M.M.G. Bax), 9 September: http://
www.vu.nl/en/Images/20131112%20Rapport%20Commissie%20Baud%20
Engelse%20versie%20definitief_tcm12-365093.pdf
Baud, Michiel ‘Achtergronden, doelstellingen, uitvoering en resultaten van
de Nederlandse buitenlandse politiek met betrekking tot Argentinië
(2005-2012)’ (Ideas, implementation and results of Dutch foreign policy in
Argentina (2005-2012). Report for IOB, Ministry of Foreign Affairs: http://
www.iob-evaluatie.nl/Argentini%C3%AB
Baud, Michiel ‘Dominikanische Republik’, in: Silke Hensel & Barbara
Potthast (Hg.) Das Lateinamerika Lexikon (Wuppertal: Peter Hammer
Verlag); pp. 77-83.
Baud, Michiel ‘Nederland en het nieuwe Latijns Amerika’, Internationale
Spectator, 67:4 (April); pp. 8-13.
Baud, Michiel ‘In Latijns Amerika heeft de Katholieke Kerk de slag gemist’,
NRC-Handelsblad, 16 March.
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Baud, Michiel ‘God sliep ook in Latijns-Amerika’, De Morgen, 19 March.
Baud, Michiel (with Pablo Ospina) ‘The emergence of new modes of
governance of natural resources use and distribution in Latin America and
Ecuador’, Working Paper ENGOV project: http://www.engov.eu/documentos/working_paper/Working_Paper_ENGOV_4_BaudandOspina.pdf
Castro, Fabio de ‘Crossing Boundaries in Environmental Governance’,
Analytical Framework Report. ENGOV: http://www.engov.eu/documentos/
working_paper/Working_Paper_ENGOV_4_BaudandOspina.pdf
Dijck, Pitou van (with Gerrit Faber) ‘Vooruitzichten voor het TransAtlantisch Handels- en Investeringspartnerschap (TTIP)’, Internationale
Spectator, 67: 11 (November); pp. 56-59.
Koonings, Kees ‘Achtergronden, doelstellingen, uitvoering en resultaten
van de Nederlandse buitenlandse politiek met betrekking tot Brazilië’.
Amsterdam: CEDLA Report for IOB, Ministry of Foreign Affairs: http://
www.iob-evaluatie.nl/sites/iob-evaluatie.nl/files/Landenrapport%20
Brazilië_0.pdf
Koonings, Kees Evaluación de la política de los Países Bajos en apoyo a la
paz y los derechos humanos en Colombia. Amsterdam: CEDLA (with Dirk
Kruijt and Pedro Valenzuela) Report for IOB, Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
http://www.iob-evaluatie.nl/sites/iob-evaluatie.nl/files/Deelstudie%20
Mensenrechten%20Colombia%20(Spaans).pdf
Book Reviews
Klaufus, Christien, Latin American Development into the 21st Century:
Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City, D. Rodgers, J. Beall, and R.
Kanbur (eds) (2012, Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan) in:
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 95, pp. 133-135.
Simon Thomas, Marc, Long live Atahualpa: Indigenous politics, justice, and
democracy in the Northern Andes, Emma Cervone, (Durham and London:
Duke University Press, 2012), European Review of Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, 94, pp. 124-125.
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Papers
Castro, Fabio de ‘Crossing boundaries in environmental governance’,
ENGOV meeting, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Quito, 22-28 May.
Castro, Fabio de (with L.C. Gerhardinger, presenter, and C.S. Seixas)
‘Innovation and governability challenges in marine protected areas governance in Brazil’, conference: People and the Sea VII, MARE Centre –
University of Amsterdam, 26-28 June.
Castro, Fabio de (with C. Futemma, presenter, C. Adams and C. Raimbert)
‘The afro-Brazilian collective territory and the challenges to reach a
multi-dimensional autonomy’, conference: Commoners and the changing
commons: Livelihoods, environmental security, and shared knowledge,
IASC, Kita Fuji, Japan, 3 July.
Simon Thomas, Marc ‘Interlegality as the living reality of legal pluralism in
the Ecuadorian Andes’, VSR Conference ‘Complexiteit, superdiversiteit en
de rechtsstaat’, Doorn, The Netherlands, 17-18 January.
Solheim, Håvar ‘Cooperation in local public security; key to fighting crime
in Latin America? Local government and police in Bogotá, 1991-2012’,
NOLAN 2013, Norwegian Latin America Research Network City: Oslo,
Norway, 27-29 November.
Theije, Marjo de ‘Gowtumans’ gold. Maroon Mining in Suriname’, Paper
presented at the conference ‘Free and Forced Migration, Diaspora and
Identity Formation - the Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labor in Historical
and Contemporary Context’, Paramaribo, 6-10 June.
Theije, Marjo de ‘Postcolonial gold. Clash of policies at the Lawa-Maroni
border’, Paper presented at the conference ‘The Three Guyanas: Similarities
and Differences’, KITLV, Leiden, 22 and 23 August.
Waardt, M.F. de ‘Sufrido en carne propia? Speaking out as a victim or in
name of victims: Representation of Peruvian victimhood and grassroots
organizations of victim-survivors’, ISTR Regional Conference Latin America/
Caribbean, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 28-30 August.
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Organisation of Conferences/Seminars/Workshops
Fabio de Castro and Barbara Hogenboom
‘Environmental Governance in Latin America: Concepts, Issues
and Strategies’.
CEDLA/NIMD/Cordaid workshop, The Hague
15 October
‘Socioenvironmental Conflict and Citizens Participation’.
CEDLA/NIMD/Cordaid workshop, Amsterdam
13 December
Pitou van Dijck
‘GIS Toepassingen voor Land Use Planning’.
CEDLA/IVM-VU University Amsterdam, Anton de Kom University,
Paramaribo, Suriname
15 March (13-14 March workshop training)
‘SEA voor Grootschalige Infrastructuur’.
CEDLA/CEPAL/ILPES, Santiago de Chile, Piatame Institute, Manaus, DHV,
Anton de Kom University), Paramaribo, Suriname
24 May (22-23 May workshop/training)
Barbara Hogenboom
‘How China’s energy demand is affecting Latin America’.
IIAS-CEDLA seminar, Amsterdam
12 September
Discussant: Pitou van Dijck. Participants: Prof. Li Xiaohua (IIE-CASS), Dr. Liu Dong
(IWAAS-CASS), Dr Adrian H. Hearn (University of Sydney), Dr. Barbara Hogenboom,
Dr M.P. Amineh (IIAS).
The rise of China, coupled with the global financial crisis, is raising questions among
policy architects and economic advisers about the optimal balance of government and
market forces in world affairs. It has now become clear that the state, particularly in
developing countries, is once again playing a more assertive role in economic management.
Meanwhile, the state-led economy of Cuba is undergoing reforms to stimulate private
entrepreneurship. China’s influence in Cuba’s reform process is strong, spanning
everything from investment in the energy sector to finance for small businesses and
wholesale supply for emerging industries. This presentation examines how Cuba, with
China’s support, is designing a new and more effective approach to mixing state and
market forces for economic development.”
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Christien Klaufus
‘Authors meets Critics, International Journal of Urban and
Regional Research’.
Online seminar with Freek Colombijn and Rivke Jaffe, at www.ijurr.org
8 May
Aleksandra Pudliszak (with Adriana Clavijo)
Organisation of six sessions on ‘Memorias e identidades. Retrospectivas y
perspectivas contemporáneas’ during the Conference of Consejo Europeo
de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina (CEISAL), Porto, Portugal
12 - 15 June
Lectures
Michiel Baud
‘Ethnicity and politics in the Dominican Republic’
University of Mainz
15 February
‘Argentijnse lessen’
De Balie, Amsterdam
17 April
Fabio de Castro
‘Invited discussant of the Panel The international dimensions of resource
dependency: perspectives from Latin America’
SLAS Conference, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
11 April
Pitou van Dijck
‘Naar een Comprehensive en Participatieve SEA’
conference: SEA voor Grootschalige Infrastructuur, CEDLA with CEPAL/ILPES,
Santiago de Chile, Piatame Institute, Manaus, DHV, Anton de Kom University
Suriname, Paramaribo
24 May
‘IIRSA and Its Impact on Rural Geography’
Nijmegen University, Nijmegen
7 October
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‘Globalisation, IIRSA and the Transformation of Latin America’
Leiden University, Campus The Hague
8 October
‘Regional Integration in Latin America: The Impact of IIRSA’
Groningen University
21 October
‘Impact of Road Infrastructure on Amazonia’
conference: keeping Forests free of Roads – Get REDD + , UN Climate Change
Conference UN FCCC, Warsaw, Poland
22 November
‘Aspects of Infrastructure Development and IIRSA in Latin America’,
conference: Impacts of Roads and Infrastructure on Ecosystems, a Crisis for Global
Biodiversity, Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University
16 December.
Christien Klaufus
Moderator of Urban Movies #3, Caracas, The Informal City + Torre David,
University of Amsterdam Center for Urban Studies, Pakhuis de Zwijger
and CEDLA
6 May
Marjo de Theije
‘De stem uit de goudput. Kleinschalige goudwinning in Suriname’
Lezing ter gelegenheid van de presentatie van het boek Gowtu, van Jeroen Trommelen,
Vereniging Ons Suriname, Amsterdam
10 maart
‘Garimpeiros brasileiros e mulheres no garimpo no Suriname e em regiões
da fronteira Amazônica’
Talk at INAN, Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista
4 December
Annelou Ypeij
‘Cholos, fusionistas e Incas’
Universidad Católica del Norte, Arica, Chile
May 2
‘Een nieuw leven in de stad: urbanisering, migratie en vooruitkomen’
Radboud University
7 June
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Teaching Programme
Teaching Programme
Each year CEDLA offers a selection of BA and MA courses that are open
to all students of universities in the Netherlands. Courses can be adjusted
to the students’ own university departments to meet extra requirements,
such as an extended paper, and additional examination or extra literature.
A selection of courses is also open to non-students for a small fee.
Participating students complete an evaluation questionnaire at the end of
the course which is used as a guideline to improve the design and content
of the course.
The course programme offers an introductory (basic) course, a number
of courses from a specific discipline, regional courses, and lecturas guiadas
(guided literature studies). In the academic year 2012-2013, a total of 15
different courses (including three required CMP courses: Introduction
Course, Fieldwork Course, and Post-Fieldwork Course) were given at
CEDLA 256 students were registered in one or more courses, and 186
completed a course in this year.
The introductory Basiscursus for BA students overviewing some main
aspects of history and development of Latin America was presented in two
parts, each with separate examinations. BA Basiscursus II Thema’s en
Regio’s in Latijns Amerika (Themes and Regions in Latin America) was a
follow up of BA Basiscursus I: Kennismaking met Latijns Amerika
(Introduction to Latin America) and focused on a selection of countries
and emergent topics in Latin America. The course encompassed lectures
by different staff members and addressed social changes in rural and urban
areas in the region and how they are connected with local, national and
global processes.
CEDLA offers BA students the possibility of taking a package of related
courses at the BA level that together lead to a minor in Latin American
Studies. This opportunity to do a minor in Latin American Studies is in in
line with the expanded options offered by most BA programmes at Dutch
Universities. The minor can also effectively serve to prepare students for
the CEDLA Master’s Programme. In the academic year 2012-2013 nine
candidates successfully completed the minor in Latin American Studies.
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The MA course programme was significantly restructured in the academic
year 2013-2013 by the introduction of two research-related courses, RL1
and RL2 (see page 27), focusing on natural and cultural resource use in
Latin America. In addition, as series of tutorials called lecturas guiadas
complemented the course programme in a made-to-measure form
appealing to both students and scholars.
CEDLA Master’s Programme (CMP) and Course Programme
Masters graduation
As the CMP programme is offered in English (since September 2011), the
promotion campaign continued, focusing on Dutch scholars and scholars
worldwide. The campaign started early in the academic year and included
three information meetings at CEDLA. The number of interested students
from abroad increased significantly, although due to problems related to
finances and visa requirements, not all international students that were
accepted to the CMP have been able to start the programme.
The CMP students 2012-2013 participated in the Master’s Programme
from September 2012 to December 2013. They carried out their fieldwork
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Teaching Programme
in different parts of Latin America: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.
CEDLA Alumni Society Amsterdam (CASA)
In line with recommendations of the NVAO visitation, CEDLA founded the
CEDLA Alumni Society Amsterdam (CASA) to maintain relations with our
alumni. A first meeting for alumni was held by CASA and NALACS in
April 2013 on entrepreneurship and finding a job outside academics after
the CEDLA Master’s Programme. Max Wohlgemuth Kitslaar (alumnus
2008), Wendele van der Wiele (alumna 2009) and Saskia van Drunen
(alumna 2002) shared their personal experiences on this topic.
The accreditation and formal registration of the CEDLA Master’s Programme
in the CROHO holds for the period May 2011 till end of May 2017.
Supervision of CEDLA Master’s Programme theses
CMP 2012-2013
Olga Canales Gutiérrez
Iris Dortland
Diana Dubrovska
Nienke Jansen
Yordan Kutiyski
Steven Mons
Zaira Onaindia Rodriguez
Nueva Morococha. Un modelo urbano de responsabilidad social
corporativo o un tipo de company town en los Andes Peruanos.
Supervisor: Christien Klaufus
Bioprospecting: the best of both worlds? The integration of traditional
knowledge and modern medicine.
Supervisor: Fabio de Castro
Beyond Paradise. Love, Sex and Relationships of Foreign Women in
Jericoacoara, Brazil.
Supervisor: Annelou Ypeij
Inequality in education: Gender, ethnicity, and class, in a rural Peruvian district.
Supervisor: Annelou Ypeij
The Politics of Community Deliberation and Local Decision-making in a
Polarized Context: Venezuelan Comparative Perspective.
Supervisor: Barbara Hogenboom
Impacts and perceptions of the Ruta 1856 ‘Juan Rafael Mora Porras’
Supervisor: Pitou van Dijck
Nosotros los Mazahuas: un estudio sobre el sentimiento de ‘pertenecer’
y ‘ser’ de San Jerónimo Bonchete.
Supervisor: Arij Ouweneel
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Germán Rodríguez Agudelo
Belinda Mikaela Torres-Leclercq
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La reforma fallida al código de minas colombiano. Análisis de las tensiones
del proyecto extractivista.
Supervisor: Barbara Hogenboom
Conversaciones sobre el movimiento estudiantil chileno (2013).
Supervisor: Arij Ouweneel
Overview of courses 2012-2013
bachelor courses
Basiscursus I: Kennismaking met Latijns Amerika
CEDLA-staf, September – December 2012
Basiscursus II: Thema’s en regio’s in Latijns Amerika
CEDLA-staf, February – April 2013
Politiek en Protest in Latijns Amerika
B. Hogenboom, October 2012 – January 2013
Gender, familie en armoede in Latijns Amerika
A. Ypeij, November 2012 – January 2013
Brazilië: democratie, burgerschap en duurzame ontwikkeling
F. de Castro en K. Koonings, May – July 2013
De identiteit van de stad
C. Klaufus en A. Ouweneel, May – July 2013
The political economy of petro-states: Venezuela in a
comparative context
J. Corrales, May – July 2013
Filmen in post-liberaal Latijns Amerika
A. Ouweneel, May – June 2013
Literatuuropdrachten
Total
no. of
students
no. of
completions
no. of
credits
41
35
6
17
11
6
19
18
6 - 10
14
9
6
24
11
6 - 7,5
25
20
6 - 7,5
7
4
6 - 6,5
12
3
4-6
7
166
7
118
2 - 10
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master courses
RL 1. Environmental Changes in Latin America:
Impacts, Conflicts, and Partnerships
P. van Dijck, B. Hogenboom and F. de Castro,
October 2012 – January 2013
RL 2. Cultural Resources in Urban Research:
Identity, Space, and Gender
C. Klaufus, A. Ouweneel and A. Ypeij,
November 2012 – February 2013
Globalisation, Regionalisation, and Economic
Development in Latin America
P. van Dijck, November 2012 – January 2013
Simulating City Life in Film and on Television
A. Ouweneel, February – March 2013
Social Movements and Democracy: Social Capital
and Civic Engagement in Latin America
M. Baud, January – April 2013
The political economy of petro-states: Venezuela
in a comparative context
J. Corrales, May – July 2013
Lecturas Guiadas
CEDLA-staf
Post-Fieldwork Course (CMP 2011 - 2012)
A. Ypeij and C. Klaufus, September – November 2012
Introduction Course: Democracy, Identity and Sustainable
Development in Latin America (CMP 2012-2013)
CEDLA-staff, September – October 2012
Fieldwork Course (CMP 2012-2013)
CEDLA-staff, November 2012 - April 2013
Total
special courses
Neo-extractivism, Mineral Governance, and
Development in Latin America
B. Hogenboom and M. de Theije, February – April 2013
Transnational Migration and Remittances
C. Klaufus, November 2012 – January 2013
Teaching Programme
no. of
students
no. of
completions
no. of
credits
18 (8 CMP)
14
7 - 11,5
6 (3 CMP)
6
6 - 10
12 (6 CMP)
10
6 - 7,5
8 (4 CMP)
6
6 - 10
12 (3 CMP)
7
10
3
2
6
6 (4 CMP)
6
3-9
6
6
5
10
9
10
10
9
5
81
75
no. of
students
no. of
completions
no. of
credits
7 (1 CMP)
1
4-6
2
1
7,5
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Overview of universities
institution
University of Amsterdam
VU University Amsterdam
Leiden University
Utrecht University
Radboud University Nijmegen
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tilburg University
Wageningen University
CMP students
TU Eindhoven
Concertación students
TU Delft
TU Twente
Limburg University
ISHSS (GSSS from 2012)
Hogeschool Utrecht
Royal Academy of Art The Hague
Fee-paying
Other
Total
2010 - 2011
2011 - 2012
2012 - 2013
123
13
12
14
2
10
3
11
1
15
1
208
141
15
9
17
1
5
1
1
1
6
1
1
1
1
1
18
5
225
103
7
8
18
5
1
2
10
14
6
179
YES (Young Excellent Scholars) Research Internship Programme
Carrie van der Kroon (Utrecht University), supervisor: Marc Simon Thomas
Juanita van der Lande (University of Amsterdam), supervisor: Arij Ouweneel
Supervision of external Master’s theses
Michiel Baud
Gabriela Quiroga Gilardoni, ‘Beefing up social capital in Uruguayan agricultural cooperatives. The Case of CALAI in Aiguá’, International Development
Studies, University of Amsterdam.
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Nanja Lisa Monas, ‘The Student Movement of Santiago de Chile. Exploring
the problems, demands and envisioned changes of the Chilean student
movement and the students they represent from la Universidad de Chile and
La Pontificia Universidad Católica’, International development Studies,
University of Amsterdam.
Alba Lariza van der Poel Ventura, ‘Reality, Challenges, and Opportunities of
Young Alteños to effectively participate in political, economic and social
activities in El Alto, Bolivia’, International Development Studies, University
of Amsterdam.
Barbara Hogenboom
Karolien van Teijlingen, ‘Negotiating values and development at the mining
frontier: Private, public and civil society interactions over El Mirador mine in
South-east Ecuador’, Research Master International Development Studies,
University of Amsterdam, 7 March.
Christien Klaufus
Jordi Calvera Montagut, ‘Ecovillage Rumicucho Ecuador’, Academy of
Architecture, Amsterdam School of the Arts, 26 September.
Relocation CEDLA
Speech during the Fiesta
de Melancolía.
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Library
Library
In 2014 CEDLA was greatly occupied with moving offices from the
Keizersgracht to the Van Tienhoven building in the Roetersstraat in
Amsterdam. Though it was a major operation for CEDLA as a whole, there
were special challenges for the library. It was necessary to prepare and
execute moving the extensive collection dispersed over several floors in a
relatively short time. All was accomplished smoothly thanks to the tireless
efforts of the temporary and permanent library personnel.
Relocation
In preparation for the move, the current collection and the books that
were donated were checked for doubles, and these were given away. To fit
more than 1500 running metres of books and journals in the new premises,
a plan was made for the arrangement of the collection. Then books were
rearranged prior to the move in preparation for the new premises.
Unfortunately, a major setback became apparent during the move. The
building was not constructed to house a heavy library collection. Another
premise was found in a building on the Roeterseiland campus to house a
selection of the collection. This will hopefully be a temporary solution.
The new premises
The library is housed on the 5th and 2nd floors of the Van Tienhoven
building. The information and loan desk is located at the back of the 5th
floor as well as the display cabinets for journals and 50 per cent of the
collection on open shelves. There is sufficient study area and four computers
for users. Wi-Fi is also available for visitors with their own laptops. On the
2nd floor 25 per cent of the collection is available in half-open stacks. The
remainder of the collection, which is most of the journals and 20 per cent
of the books, is stored in an adjacent building and is available to visitors
upon request.
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Activities
In spite of the extra workload for the move, the library continued its
normal activities of lending books and extending the collection with new
acquisitions. 1500 new books were added to the collection. Due to the
uncertain circumstances related to the new housing, the number of loans
were down in 2013 to about 3700, with an additional 200 through ILL –
Interlibrary Loan.
CEDLA library lending activity
year
Library Desk
ILL*
Total
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
6,500
240
6,740
6,100
220
6,320
5,800
200
6,000
4,900
220
5,120
3,700
220
3,920
*ILL = books requested via the Interlibrary Loan
Growth of the CEDLA library
year
book volumes
periodicals
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
71,200
73,600
75,600
77,600
79,100
500
510
510
500
500
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CEDLA Website and Newsletter
CEDLA Website and
Newsletter
The website is the repository of all the contents of the activity of CEDLA:
courses, publications , activities, news , organisation, etc.
Besides the permanent and daily site update, the following actions
are prioritised:
- Promote CEDLA activities (courses, research, events, etc.)
- Intensify presence on other sites via external links
Web and Numbers 2013
47.7%
Sessions
Users
36.381
19.895
52.3%
Page views
113.151
New Visitor
Returning Visitor
Referrals
From institutions related
to ours: the promotion of
the CEDLA website to
other websites to attract
visitors through links,
banners and documents.
1. Google
2. (direct)
3. cedla.nl
4. facebook.com
5. red-redial.net
6. nl.wikipedia.org
7. m.facebook.com
8. uva.nl
9. uu.nl
10. oneworld.nl
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Our visitors: Top Cities
1. Amsterdam
2. Utrecht
3. The Hague
4. Santiago de Chile
5. Leiden
6. Mexico City
7. Buenos Aires
8. Nijmegen
9. Rotterdam
10. Bogota
Social Media
We are still active with our social media platforms: Facebook, LinkedIn
and YouTube, informing and spreading information about CEDLA and
Latin America.
Facebook
1550 friends
(We have increased the number of followers in spite of not using paid
advertising campaigns)
LinkedIn CEDLA Group
380 members
CEDLA Newsletter
The CEDLA newsletter keeps us up to date on CEDLA activities and news.
Two weeks prior to every lecture or seminar our subscribers receive a special
mailing containing all details about the event, the speaker(s), an abstract,
etc. Every two months we send a comprehensive newsletter announcing
our next activities, deadlines, courses and lectures.
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One of the main objectives of CEDLA is to extend and increase knowledge
about the societies and cultures of Latin America. To this aim it publishes
CEDLA Latin American Studies (CLAS) and Cuadernos del CEDLA, and
the academic journal (ERLACS) European Review of Latin American and
Caribbean Studies / Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del
Caribe. A selection of publications is made available through the Open
Archives of the CEDLA website. Kathleen Willingham is the Desk Editor.
CEDLA Latin America Studies (CLAS) book series
The CLAS book series consists of more than 100 titles and has, through the
years, made a considerable contribution to the publication and distribution
of social science and historiographical research by Latin Americanists in
Europe and the Americas. The CLAS series consists of monographs and
readers in English.
The objective of the CLAS series is to publish the results of original research
on Latin America in the fields of the social sciences, understood in a broad
sense, including history, economy and geography. The series is directed
toward an academic readership, but also aims to reach a larger public of
students and informed readers. From 2010, CLAS 98, the series is published
by Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford.
No titles were published in 2013. For more information see:
CEDLA Publications: http://www.cedla.uva.nl/50_publications/clas_books.
html and Berghahn Books: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/series.
php?pg=cedl_lati.
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Cuadernos del CEDLA series
The series Cuadernos del CEDLA, comprising 26 titles, presents research
in progress and aims at the quick distribution of research results connected
to the CEDLA research programme. In this way, it provides a forum for
distributing and discussing ongoing research to a wide readership. For the
backlist and ordering information concerning the Cuadernos del CEDLA
see: http://www.cedla.uva.nl/50_publications/cuadernos.html. A selection
of the Cuadernos is also available for download from the website. The
following title was published in June:
Cuadernos del CEDLA, No. 26
Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Amazon. The Cases of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,
Peru and Suriname, Leontien Cremers, Judith Kolen, Marjo de Theije (eds),
CEDLA, June 2013, 116 pp.ISBN 978-90-70280-18-5
ERLACS
The long tradition of CEDLA as a European hub for Latin American
research is reflected in ERLACS – European Review of Latin American and
Caribbean Studies / Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe.
ERLACS features 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 explicitly aims to provide a forum for European
authors who do research on Latin America and Latin American authors who
wish to publish in a European journal. Articles are subject to independent
peer review. In addition to research articles, ERLACS includes ‘Explorations’
(a section in which new themes are presented and new debates are
stimulated), review essays and book reviews. ERLACS is published online
and in a print edition in April and October.
www.erlacs.org
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Fellowship Programmes
and affiliated organisations
Slicher van Bath – de Jong Fellowships
The aim of the Slicher van Bath – de Jong Programme which started in
2010 is to promote the study and research of Latin American history from
1500 to the early twentieth century, in particular by providing financial support
to historical research of young scientists. Every year it grants financial support
for research projects by European and Latin American historians.
In 2013, 82 projects were submitted before the deadline of 1 February.
The Scientific Board considered them and decided to select the following
projects for funding:
Loayza Alex (Peru)
Urbs y polis: municipio, cultura política y representación en Lima y
Santiago, 1777-1850.
Escanilla Silvia (Argentina)
Configuración social y política de las guerrillas durante la Guerra de
independencia en el Perú, 1820-1824.
Jesus Bohorquez (Colombia)
Trans imperial networks in global ports, 1780-1820.
Nino Vallen (Netherlands)
The Pacific Rim in the making of Creole America, 1533-1641.
Information of these and previous grantees can be found on
CEDLA’s website:
http://www.cedla.uva.nl/20_research/programme.html
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Prince Bernhard Scholarships
The Prince Bernhard Scholarships are meant to support innovative research carried out in the fields of the social sciences and the humanities
and should preferably have a link with academic institutions in the
Netherlands and/or refer to the relations between the Netherlands/Europe
and Latin America.
The winners of the scholarships in 2013 were:
Gijs Cremers: On the construction and use of territorial narratives at the
junction of local interests and global processes.
Karen Hudlet Vázquez: A sweet or bitter alliance? Different identities;
expectations and narratives enclosed in regional movements against
Genetically Modified Soy.
NALACS – Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
(Nalacs) is an association for everyone in the Netherlands who is interested
in Latin America and Caribbean. Nalacs, which has its office in the CEDLA
building, is made up of academics and professionals with a variety of
disciplinary backgrounds united by their passion for Latin America and
the Caribbean. Every year Nalacs organises activities to promote debate on
issues related to the region.
In 2013, Nalacs continued its partnership with the Latin American Film
Festival. As part of the program track ‘Art=Power’ a debate was organised
around the screening of the documentary ‘Granito: How to Nail a Dictator’.
It was chaired by Edwin Koopman Arij. Ouweneel, Elisabet Rasch (Wageningen) and Christine Wagner (Hivos) provided commentary on the film.
In collaboration with Amnesty International, Nalacs organised a meeting
with Mexican journalist Sergio Haro, which was held at CEDLA. The
meeting was part of the Movies that Matter Festival – A Matter of ACT (21-27
March, The Hague). Sergio Haro is the protagonist of the documentary
Reportero (Bernardo Ruiz, 2012) and has been working as a reporter in the
Baja California region for almost three decades. He has firsthand experience
with activist journalism amidst unceasing violence. The meeting drew a
diverse audience of students, academics, professionals and others interested
in journalism, violence and corruption in Latin America.
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In cooperation with CASA, the CEDLA Alumni association, Nalacs organised
a masterclass entitled ‘Self-employment & Latin American Studies: Is
creating business a way to work with Latin America?’. This seminar was
aimed at students and recent graduates of Latin American studies. Three
young scholars shared their experiences on the labour market. Pitou van
Dijck (CEDLA MA-coordinator) and Jeanette Kloosterman (Nalacs, Oxfam
Novib) chaired the discussion.
Nalacs also sponsors a thesis award, and welcomes initiatives by members
to organise events related to the Nalacs mission.
OLA – Researchers Latin America
OLA is a forum where PhD students of different disciplines and Dutch
universities, dealing with a variety of themes and debates yet sharing a
regional focus on Latin America, can read and comment on each other’s
work. In addition, OLA is a meeting point for students as well as for
universities that want to organise activities concerning Latin America, or
that wish to get in contact with PhD students (AIO’s) who are doing
research in this region.
Flyers with our new
address are handed out.
Photo by:
Leontien Cremers
Nalacs thesis award
2012-2013
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CEDLA Latin America
Lectures Series
El proceso de paz en Colombia y la justícia transicional: ¿Un incentive o un
obstáculo?
Eduardo Pizarro
Ambassador of Colombia
1 March
Climate change, communities and the commons: Lessons from
Mesoamerica
Leticia Merino
UNAM, Mexico
22 March
Visa al paraíso
Lillian Liberman
in cooperation with Embassy of Mexico
3 May
Participatory Politics in Venezuela: Local democracy and polarization
Gerardo Gonzalez
Consultores21, Caracas, Venezuela
11 June
Gender, sex and politics in (post) Postcolonial Bolivia
Andrew Canessa
University of Essex Colchester, United Kingdom
14 June
Cuba and China at the crossroads
Adrian H. Hearn
University of Sydney
13 September
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Elecciones presidenciales en Chile (nov. 2013); lo que está en juego
Marco Moreno Pérez
Universidad Central, Santiago de Chile
4 October
Gangs and governance: Citizenship beyond the state in Jamaica
Rivke Jaffe
25 October
‘This is not a parade, it’s a protest march’: Intertextuality, citation, and
political action in Bolivia and Argentina
Sian Lazar
Clare College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
15 November
Extractivism and social inequalities in Latin America
Barbara Göbel
Ibero-Amerikanische Institut, Berlin, Duitsland
13 December
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Personnel
Personnel
Director
Prof. dr Michiel Baud
Research Staff (and their areas of specialisation)
Dr Fabio de Castro
Dr Pitou van Dijck
Dr Barbara Hogenboom
Dr Christien Klaufus
Prof. dr Kees Koonings
Dr Arij Ouweneel
Dr Marjo de Theije
Dr Annelou Ypeij
Brazilian Studies
Economics (Cuba, Bolivia, Brazil, Suriname)
Political Science (Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador)
Human Geography (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia)
Brazilian Studies
History (Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Chili)
GOMIAM project leader
Anthropology & Gender Studies (Peru)
Library
Carmen Gimenez Solar, MA
Drs Gerson Kuiper
Graça de Oliveira
Assistant librarian
Librarian
Assistant librarian
Administrative Staff
Jolanda van den Boom
Nico Braak
Leontien Cremers, Msc MA
Carmen Gimenez Solar, MA
Judith Kolen, MA
Vera Kos-Plukker
Bente van de Nes, MA
Bestanist Nin Pons
Louise Stutterheim, MA
Kathleen Willingham, BA
Principal secretary, HR administrator
Financial controller
ENGOV/GOMIAM assistant
Secretary, Scholarships, PR
GOMIAM assistant
Financial administrator
Education coordinator, PR
Webmaster / ICT, PR
Education coordinator, PR (till May)
Editor, Webmaster, PR
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Temporary employees
Ruby Sanders, MA
Eline de Smet, MA
Karolien van Teijlingen, MA
Julienne Weegels, MA
Riberalta Bolivia. Photo
by Leontien Cremers
Assistant librarian
GOMIAM assistant
Assistant librarian/secretary
Assistant librarian/secretary
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Boards
Boards
General Board
Dr B.Y.A. Adriaensen
Dr C.H. Biekart
Drs T. Davids
Prof. dr A.G. Dijkstra
Prof. dr E.H.F. de Haan
Dr M.A. Hordijk
Prof. dr C.G. Koonings
Dr P.H.C.M. van Lindert
Prof. dr W.G. Pansters
Dr W.T. Pelupessy
Dr C.G. van Roozendaal
Dr A.J. Salman
Prof. dr P. Silva
Dr M.E.M. de Theije
Dr B. Vallejo Carlos
Prof. dr J.M. Baud
Institute of Social Studies/Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Utrecht University
Utrecht University
Tilburg University
Leiden University
Tilburg University
Director CEDLA
Executive Board
Prof. dr P. Silva (chair)
Dr P.H.C.M. van Lindert
Dr M.E.M. de Theije
Prof. dr J.M. Baud
Editorial Board CLAS series
Michiel Baud (Chair)
Anthony Bebbington
Edward F. Fischer
Anthony L. Hall
Barbara Hogenboom
Barbara Potthast
Rachel Sieder
Eduardo Silva
Patricio Silva
CEDLA
Clark University
Vanderbilt University
London School of Economics and Political Science
CEDLA
Universität zu Köln
University of London
Tulane University
Leiden University
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Editorial Board ERLACS
Michiel Baud (managing editor)
Kathleen Willingham (desk editor)
Fabio de Castro
Mario A. Fumerton,
Barbara Hogenboom
Rivke Jaffe
CEDLA
CEDLA
CEDLA
Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University
CEDLA
Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam
Board Cuadernos del CEDLA
Pitou van Dijck (Chair)
Michiel Baud
Arij Ouweneel
CEDLA
CEDLA
CEDLA
Board Prince Bernhard Scholarships
Michiel Baud, Chair
Kees Koonings
Gery Nijenhuis
Kati Röttger
Patricio Silva
CEDLA /University of Amsterdam
University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University
Utrecht University
Leiden University
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Exploitation Account
All Amounts in Euro’s
budget 2013
transfers 2013
271,339
19,750
1,000
70,590
3,500
29,269
3,000
398,430
286,062
29,343
9,348
69,351
3,708
29,700
13,238
431,750
Library
Cedla Publications
Research and Teaching
Phd Candidates
Personnel Costs
Total expenditure
100,880
18,000
479,650
37,210
1,003,070
2,037,240
83,520
18,877
376,839
52,755
1,009,088
1,972,829
Income
Subsidy UvA
Subsidy UvA (introduction overhead)
Other income
Total income
1,069,750
219,250
678,240
1,967,240
1,069,550
219,250
652,777
1,941,577
-70,000
-31,252
Operating Costs
Accommodation
Office supplies
Refurbishment
ICT
Travel- representation- and org. costs
Administration
Incidentals
Surplus
PR tango demonstration
to promote our moving
to new building at the
UVA quarters. Photo by:
Leontien Cremers
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CEDLA, the Interuniversity Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, is a
multidisciplinary research institute located in the centre of Amsterdam. It was founded in
1964, and has played an active role as an interuniversity centre in cooperation with other
Dutch universities and institutes since 1971.
CEDLA aims to promote the study of Latin America by conducting and stimulating relevant
and original research on developments in that region, and by distributing the results of this
research through university education and publications. The centre has a library specialised
in the collection of printed and digital material on Latin America in the social sciences and
history, and is open to all visitors.
CEDLA | Roetersstraat 33 | 1018 WB Amsterdam | T 020 525 34 98 | www.cedla.uva.nl
Printing: HAVEKA BV, Alblasserdam
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