CESAM Talks: Politics, Resistance and Collective Action in Latin America

 

The first session will focus on Venezuela´s oil culture in the 20th century and will connect the development of the petrostate to current extractivist projects. It will also reveal the links between the international and the domestic arenas in extractivist societies like Venezuela in order to understand how plans for economic transformation are made in rent-dependent, oil-exporting countries.

 

Speakers:

• Gianfranco Selgas (University College London)
• Luíza Cerioli (University of Kassel)

Moderator:

• Lisa Couderé (conSentido, MO* magazine, Mundana)

Session 2: Feminism, Resistance and De/Coloniality in Guatemala and Mexico

 

The second session will reflect on the practices of Guatemalan communitarian feminism facing patriarchal, colonial and extractive violence, followed by a talk on the embodied/enfleshed resistance to the erasure of ways of knowing-being and racialized-gendered-feminized bodies in Mexico.Speakers:

• Laura Welsch (Ghent University)
• Paulina Trejo Méndez (Independent scholar & artist)

Moderator:

• Lisa Couderé (conSentido, MO* magazine, Mundana)

 

Session 3: Political Activism and Social Explosion in Chile 

 

The last session will discuss the political challenges posed by the massive protests that took place in Chile in 2019 –also known as “social explosion” –, and will draw attention to the political activism of women in Chile by focusing on the agency and strategies of female nurses as a specific form of collective action.  Speakers:

• Patricio Silva (Leiden University)
• Ricardo Ayala Valenzuela (Ghent University, University of the Americas)

Moderator:

• Lisa Couderé (conSentido, MO* magazine, Mundana)

 

Download the program here (pdf) and register here for free >>