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Doctoral Students

 

One of the primary components of research at the department of sociology at the Latin American Institute are the doctoral projects, which represent the institute’s main areas of work.

General information about doctoral studies at the Freie Universität can be found here (link), for more details on studying for your PhD in the department of social sciences , click here.

 

 

Current doctoral research projects

Supervisor: Prof. Sérgio Costa

 

Name

Dissertation Project

Fellowships / Research Association

Philipp Altmann

Plurinationality and Interculturality – the indigenous movement in Ecuador

 

Cooperation project "Soziale Bewegungen, Öffentlichkeit und die neuen Konfigurationen des Rechts in Lateinamerika"

 

Carlos Assim

Sertão Esterificado: The National Plan for Biodiesel Production in Brazilian Drought Polygon and the idea of social inclusion

 

Research Center for Brazilian Studies

Jorge Atría

The question of inequality under the look of the most disadvantaged: perceptions and prospects for social cohesion in Chile

 

 

Scholarship holder of Conicyt - Sistema Bicentenario Becas Chile

Maria Backhouse

Konflikte um Biokraftstoffe - Eine sozialökologische Mehrebenenanalyse der Konfliktlagen der Biokraftstoffproduktion in Brasilien

 

Assistant Lecturer in the project „Fair Fuels?“ at LAI, Research Center for Brazilian Studies

Ernesto Aguilar Carvajal

La amenaza de un mundo privado: la segregación urbana en enclaves fortificados

 

 

Mayarí Castillo

Political discourses and Practices in the Construction of the “Middle-Class” subject(s). An analysis of the Chilean case.

 

Comisión Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología del Gobierno de Chile (CONICYT)

 

Mario A. Martínez Cortés

Beyond Identity or Identity in other Terms? The Knowledge Needs and the Resignification of Indigenous Cultures in the Struggles for Interculturality: Analysis of Experience on Brazil and Mexico.

Scholarship holder of Dahlem Research School (DRS), Research Center for Brazilian Studies

Kaciano Barbosa Gadelha

 

Gendered Communities: Virtualisierung von Körper und Sexualität in GayRomeo

 

Scholarship holder of the International Research Trainig Goup „Between Spaces"

 

Tabea Sophia Goldboom

Redefining the role of the state and the market in social security: the impact of transnational coalitions and public-private cooperation in micro-insurance

 

Scholarship holder of the International Research Network desiguALdades

Ernesto Fabián Mieles González

Strategic Litigation, Social Mobilization, and Memory Building: Colombia 1990 - 2010

Funded by Colfuturo, Cooperation project  "Soziale Bewegungen, Öffentlichkeit und die neuen Konfigurationen des Rechts in Lateinamerika"

Laura Aguirre Hernández

 

Central American Migrants Women: Articulation between social Exclusion and social Inclusion throung Transnational Migration, the case of Sex Workers in Mexican southern border.

 

 

Associated doctoral student of the International Research Traning Group „Between Spaces“

 

Javiera Cienfuegos Illanes

 

Familien auf Distanz: Die Bildung eines Zwischenraumes als alltägliche Lebensform

 

Scholarship holder of the International Research Training Group "Between Spaces"

 

Götz Kaufmann

Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development in Brazil. A case study.

Research Center for Brazilian Studies, Universidade Federal do Pará/NAEA

 

Krista Lillemets Expansion of the Sphere of Citizenship Rights in the Semi-Periphery: Comparing Brazil and Central Eastern Europe Through the Lens of Polanyian “Double Movement”

 

 

Renata Stellmann de Sousa Lima

Romantic love, regional differences and cultural capital: a comparative study between Brazil and Germany

Scholarship holder of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) – Brasil,

 

Jairo Baquero Melo

Territory and Conflict in Chocó: Entanglements, Civil Society and State

Scholarship holder of the International Research Network desiguALdades

Renata C. Motta

Politics and reflexivity: genetically modified food in Brazil and in the European Union

Scholarship holder of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Research Center for Brazilian Studies

 

Airton Adelar Mueller

Local Government, Social Capital and Development in Municipalities of Southern Brazil

 
Scholarship holder of Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED)

 

Rocío Vera Santos

Quito neighborhoods and articulation of Afro-Quiteño identity

 

Scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

 

Anne Skornia

Transnational Families across the Atlantic: The Case of Peruvian Migrant Women in Italy and their Family Members in Peru

 

Scholarship holder of the International Research Network desiguALdades

 

 

 

 


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