trAndeS

Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig, Dr. Bettina Schorr, Prof. Dr. Narda Henriquez, Prof. Dr. Gerardo Damonte

Sep 01, 2016 — Dec 31, 2020

TrAndeS is a structured postgraduate program (master and Ph.D.),  based in Lima, Peru at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), in cooperation with the Latin American Institute (LAI) of the FU Berlin. trAndeS promotes a study program for master, doctorate and postdoctorate ...

COLBIODIV sub-project: The political processes of the organization of biodiversity in Colombia - The case of Bogotá and Barranquilla

Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig, Dr. Markus Rauchecker

Jan 01, 2017 — Jan 31, 2019

The "German-Colombian Biodiversity Network - Integral Managment of Biodiversity in model regions of Colombia" (COLBIODIV) is an interdisciplinary research network that involves botanists, geographers and social scientists in Germany and Colombia. COLBIODIV studies the complex natural and social ...

German Police Assistance in Latin America (1949 - 1989): Scope, Practices and Transnational Entanglements

Prof. Dr. Markus-Michael Müller

Oct 01, 2017 — Mar 30, 2020

The research project “German Police Assistance in Latin America (1949 - 1989): Scope, Practices and Transnational Entanglements” analyses, for the first time, Germany's role in the modernization of Latin American police institutions and its local and transnational consequences during the Cold ...

Black Holes and Forensic Imagination: a Narrative with/out Images

Dr. Anne Huffschmid

Nov 16, 2018 — Nov 15, 2019

Black Holes and Forensic Imagination: a Narrative with/out Images Forced disappearance tends to create ‚black holes‘ in human imagination. The project aims to ‚fill in‘ these voids by constructing a counter-narrative on extreme violence and its processing. The terror of disappearing ...

Feminist Politics and the fight against violence in the era of digitalization

Dr. Marcela Suárez Estrada

Jan 01, 2018 — Dec 31, 2020

This project analyzes the ways in which feminist collectives have been appropriating Internet and digital technologies to fight digital violence against women. It seeks to arrive at a better understanding of the role that these digital technologies play in promoting new forms of feminist political ...

International Research Training Group “Entre Espacios/Between Spaces”

Prof. Dr. Stefan Rinke, Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig, Prof. Dr. Carlos Alba Vega, Prof. Dr. Guillermo Zermeño

Jan 01, 2009 — Dec 31, 2018

The International Research Training Group “Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalization,” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), presents new perspectives to social- and cultural-scientific research on globalization. By means of a dialogue between different ...

GLOCON

Dr. Kristina Dietz, Prof. Dr. Bettina Engels

Aug 01, 2014 — Jul 31, 2018

The Junior Research Group “Global change – local conflicts? Land conflicts in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, in the context of interdependent transformation processes” (GLOCON) deals with the relationships between global processes and land conflicts. It asks what is the influence of ...

SFB 700 -Research Project C3

Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig, Prof. Dr. Markus-Michael Müller

Jan 01, 2006 — Dec 31, 2017

Research Project C3 assesses the (local/international) political context factors that contribute to the efficiency and legitimacy of security governance transfers. Additionally, the project analyses the impact of the historical legacy of such transfers on contemporary interventions. These ...

Forensic Anthropology in Conflict-Scenarios of the 21th Century: A case study on Mexico in international context

Dr. Anne Huffschmid, Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig

Nov 16, 2016 — Nov 15, 2018

The shock of „Ayotzinapa“, when protesting students in the Southern state of Guerrero were attacked and disappeared by local police forces in September of 2014, attracted worldwide public attention to the continuous human rights crisis in Mexico. Three fenomena moved to the center of national ...

Why are corporate elites interconnected by cohesive networks in some countries, and not in others? Cross-national and transnational analysis of corporate elite networks in Latin America

Dr. Julián Cárdenas

Dec 02, 2013 — Nov 30, 2017

Corporate elites are interconnected by networks, which are the result of holding several board positions (interlocking directorates) and holding stocks in several companies (interlocking ownership). Research on corporate elite networks has focused on North America, Europe and to a lesser extent on ...

Digital Knowledge Networks and Technoscientific Controversies in Latin America

Dr. Marcela Suárez Estrada

Aug 01, 2016 — Aug 31, 2018

The rise of digital culture is increasingly transforming the ways in which knowledge is produced, diffused, and shaped. Digital technologies intensify interactions among those who produce scientific knowledge but can also open new channels of communication to actors who are not immediately involved ...

desiguALdades.net

Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig, Prof. Dr. Sérgio Costa, Prof. Dr. Barbara Fritz

Nov 01, 2009 — Apr 30, 2016

desiguALdades.net is an interdisciplinary, international, and multi-institutional research network on interdependent inequalities in Latin America. Its specific research profile emphasizes multidimensionality and global interdependencies of social inequalities in Latin America. As of May 1, 2016, ...

MISEAL

Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig, Dr. Martha Zapata Galindo

The joint project „Medidas para la inclusión social y equidad en Instituciones de Educación Superior en América Latina" (MISEAL) that was being coordinated by the Institute for Latin American Studies and the Universidade Estadual de Campinas deals with the subject matter of social inequality ...

Transnational Peacebuilding

Prof. Dr. Markus-Michael Müller

Dec 01, 2015 — Nov 30, 2016

Countries from the Global South have become the main troop providers for United Nations (UN) mandated international peacekeeping operations. Amongst the troop sending countries, Latin American states have taken on an increasingly important role. Of the 97.729 UN peacekeepers currently deployed, ...

Memoria in the Megacity

Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig, Dr. Anne Huffschmid

Dec 01, 2008 — Aug 14, 2012

In the context of the research project “Memoria in the Megacity: Memory, Urbanity and Gender in Latin America” (Mexico City, Buenos Aires), the study focused on traumatic memory processes of political oppression in several Latin-American cities. 

Forensic Anthropology („Knochenlesen“ als Grenzüberschreitung)

Dr. Anne Huffschmid, Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig

Mar 01, 2015 — Dec 01, 2015

The “disappeared“, those kidnapped and presumingly murdered by the Latin American dictatorships that were known as the Desaparecidos, are no longer an issue of the past.The current explosion of violence in Mexico provoked not only tens of thousands of murdered people but also a huge number – ...

Transnational Political Public Spaces

Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze

Sep 01, 2008 — Aug 30, 2009

The research project investigated the participation of Mexican migrants in different political spaces between Mexico and the USA. It was a qualification project for teaching in higher education of Dr. Stephanie Schütze.

Gender and Mobility

Lateinamerika Institut

Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig, Dr. Martha Zapata Galindo

Sep 01, 2014 — Aug 31, 2017

The principal research theme concerns the mobility of women and other disadvantaged groups in Latin American societies. Particular attention is therefore paid to the intersection between gender, ethnicity and inequality. Drawing on current approaches to mobility and gender not only addresses the ...