On May 25 and 26, 2023, the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Kassel (CELA), together with the Graduate Center KIGG of the University of Kassel, will host the young scholars workshop Elites and Class – Interrogating the Rich and Powerful in Latin America and Beyond. The …
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. They are linked by not only analyzing the risks of …
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, grasping extractivist societies.” This year’s conference aims to reconceptualize the …
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 cooperation with four Latin American universities and has established itself …
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 Justice” will be held online between July and December 2022. …
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 number of the richest and super-rich has also increased significantly …
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 materials and accumulated money. Latin America’s problem is not a …
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)
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 economic production is largely based on the extraction and export …