Julio Orellana will examine the political-economic forces that shape forced international migration among multiple racial, ethnic, and linguistic groups from Guatemala to the U.S. The talk will draw on global political economy and critical race studies to examine migration through the prism of uneven capitalist development. The presentation will focus on a section of Orellana’s book-in-progress, which argues that the changes associated with contemporary capitalism continue to characterize forced Guatemalan...
Join us for a book talk with Dr. Oneka LaBennett as she presents her latest work, Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond, which exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women’s lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana.
Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform the nation....
During his last 40 years as anthropologist, Prof. Varese has followed, accompanied and witnessed the ethnopolitical struggle of the indigenous peoples of Latin America for their self-determination, autonomy and cultural sovereignty. He is now revisiting these years of political struggle and professional engagement in an attempt to reach some conclusions on the role of committed Latin American anthropology in the hemispheric indigenous movement for social, economic and cultural justice.
Stefano Varese is a professor in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis...
Charles Hale is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He has received research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is author of Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 (1994) and co-editor (with Jeffrey Gould and Darío Euraque) of Memorias del Mestizaje: Cultura y Política en Centroamérica, 1920 al Presente (forthcoming)....
