The lecture series will address this problem context and approach the issues first from the perspective of Latin America and the Maghreb. The contributions focus on the relationship between natural resources and climate change from empirical, regional and/or theoretical perspectives. …
The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) keeps offering new and interesting research fellowships for international scholars at all career levels. You can find an overview over all fellowships [here].
The collaborative research project Extractivism.de organizes its first International Annual Conference from the 12th to the 14th of October, 2022, in Kassel, Germany. The conference’s theme is “Raw Materials, the Global South and Development in the 21st Century: mobilizing rents, …
The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) in Mexico is the first and most extensive Germany-wide cooperation project with institutions from Latin America: It is run by four German in …
As a result of the collaboration between CELA (Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos) of the University of Kassel, CALAS (Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies), and CLACSO (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales), the seminar “Wealth, Elites and Social …
With the onset of the pandemic, poverty and inequality have also grown drastically in Latin America. The UN commission CEPAL predicts a social development regression of almost three decades. But not only misery has increased. At the same time, the …
Latin America is not `underdeveloped’, hostage to the world market or victim of bad governance, as many assume and claim. Rather, the subcontinent is one of the richest regions in the world and has enormous amounts of natural goods, raw …
The seminar “Sustainability, Development and Social Participation”, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank IDB, was successfully completed by CELA Kassel and the Argentinien University UNSAM on 7.7.2022. Report (Spanish) Video about the seminar (Spanish)
Between August and December 2021, more than ninety students with diverse backgrounds attended the graduate course “Sustainability and Social Justice. Perspectives for Change” which focuses on exploring concepts and methods for addressing climate change and reducing social inequalities in Latin …
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt (CALAS, Kassel University), Prof. Dr. Mariana Heredia (CALAS-Fellow -CONICET/Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina) and Prof. Dr. Hugo Cerón Anaya (CALAS-Fellow-Lehigh University, USA) discussing about perspectives and inequalities on wealth power. [Full interview]
Under the title “Natural Resource Extractivism in Latin America and the Maghreb”, the network brings together an interdisciplinary and international team of researchers and visiting scholars to explore the development model of resource extractivism. Extractivism is the term used when …