Irene Lungo Rodríguez
Scientific Coordinator, Guadalajara
Tel.: ++52 (33) 3819-3300, extension 23594
Hour of consultation: only per E-Mail
Short-Bio
Dr. Irene Lungo Rodríguez currently works as scientific coordinator of the CALAS Laboratory Confronting Inequalities in Latin America: Perspectives on Wealth and Power. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University Programme for Development Studies at UNAM and is part of the National System of Researchers- SIN-CONACYT-Mexico. She holds a PhD in Social Science (with mention in sociology) from El Colegio de México A.C. where she conducted research on privileges and legitimation of inequalities in Central America, she also completed a short doctoral research stay at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has worked as a professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at UNAM and at the University of El Salvador. Between 2009 and 2010 she was a research associate at FORD-LASA SPECIAL PROJECTS- FIFTH CYCLE: Inequality: Forms of Legitimation and Conflict in Latin American Societies" (2009-2010).
Research Interest
• Social Inequalities
• Elite research
• Wealth
• Land reform
Regional focus: Central America, Mexico, El Salvador
Recent Publications
Chapters in books
- Lungo Rodríguez, I. (2020). Social Violence and Privilege. Strategies of the Upper Middle Class in San Salvador. In Bada, X. & L. Rivera (Eds). The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology in Latin America, Oxford University Press.
- Lungo Rodríguez, I. (2019). Estudio de las desigualdades étnico-raciales en México. In: Cuadernos de investigación en desarrollo. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
- Lungo Rodríguez, I., Fuentes, J. L. & Banegas, I. (2019). Construcción social del riesgo: Apuntes para una gestión inclusiva y participativa del riesgo de desastres en México, En: Cordera, R & E. Provencio (Eds.). A.: 10 años de la gran recesión: desastres y desarrollo. Programa Universitario de Estudios del Desarrollo UNAM.
- Lungo Rodríguez, I., (2015). O paga o se muere: El conflicto en contra de la privatización de la salud en El Salvador. Una lectura desde las desigualdades sociales. In Castillo, M. & C. Maldonado (Eds.). Desigualdades, tolerancia, legitimación y conflicto en las sociedades latinoamericanas, RIL Editores.
- Lungo Rodríguez, I. (2014). De la hegemonía conservadora al debut de la izquierda: Implicaciones y retos para una sociedad más igualitaria en El Salvador. In De Gori, E. et al (Eds.) 2014. Año de elecciones. El Salvador y Costa Rica: miradas sobre el orden político. UBA-Ediciones San Soleil.
- Lungo Rodríguez, I. (2011). Políticas de redistribución agraria, fragmentación y desigualdad frente al nuevo siglo en El Salvador. In: Castillo, M.et al. (Eds.). Desigualdad, legitimación y conflicto. Dimensiones políticas y culturales de la desigualdad en América Latina. Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado.
- Lungo Rodríguez, I. & M. Hurtado (2007). Caracterización y tendencias del movimiento ambiental en Guatemala. In: Hurtado, M & I. Lungo (Eds.). Aproximación al Movimiento Ambiental en Centroamérica, FLACSO GUATEMALA.
Articles
- Lungo Rodríguez, I. (2019). El giro “democrático” de la derecha salvadoreña a finales del siglo XX ante el “anticomunismo” y la apuesta “neoliberal”. Revista Con-temporánea. Toda Historia en el Presente, 6(11).
- Lungo Rodríguez, I. (2016). Justificación sobre las desigualdades sociales. Notas sobre el caso salvadoreño. Estudios Sociológicos, 34(101).
- Lungo Rodríguez, I. (2009). Castillos de ARENA. Hegemonía y proyecto de derecha en la posguerra salvadoreña. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades REALIDAD, 120, 249-280.
Research Projects
CALAS-Project
Studying Wealth and the Elites
In the context of high levels of social inequality, recent research in Latin America has mainly focused on the situation of the marginalized and the poor. However, the constitution and concentration of wealth in the hands of small economic elites remains largely unexplored. To cope with this lacuna, the CALAS-Project “Studying Wealth and the Elites” aims to comprehensively examine wealth and economic elites in Latin America.
Firstly, the project takes up (classic) political economic considerations of wealth accumulation in Latin America. This includes the integration into the world market, the heterogeneity of national economies, and the frictions between different social groups. However, the research also promotes new empirical and comparative perspectives to provide a comprehensive map of wealth and economic elites in the region.
Secondly, the study expands sociological analyses of economic elites in Latin America and their networks with targeting specific patterns of their reproduction. Therefore, the project establishes elites as a relational category and scrutinizes their political and economic strategies in relation to the state and other economic actors. While analysing economic elites, the research project explicitly examines lifestyles and consumption patterns, professional preferences and educational biographies, as well as family constellations.
The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and part of the CALAS Laboratory of Knowledge “Confronting Social Inequalities: Perspectives on wealth and power”.
Website: http://www.calas.lat/investigacion/desigualdad-social
