We congratulate Dr. Carmen Ibáñez on her appointment as interim professor during the winter semester 2025/26 for the Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LAI).
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Carmen Ibáñez, formerly a postdoctoral fellow at the IRTG “Temporalities of Future”, will be representing the professorship held by Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Latin American Institute of Freie Universität Berlin during the upcoming winter semester 2025/26. Congratulations!
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Her research focuses on the social dynamics, popular markets, and temporalities in the Andes. She analyses how multiple temporalities – from indigenous epistemologies to modern paradigms – shape imaginaries of the future. She gives special attention to popular markets as spaces of knowledge circulation and to the tensions between inclusion and exclusion.
In previous work, she has studied the political consequences on internal migration in Bolivia, examining the intersections of ethnicity, gender, and citizenship, as well as the forms of resistance enacted by indigenous women in both urban and rural contexts.
Her research also covers the coloniality of time, the body and epistemic justice, questioning traditional development frameworks and contributing a situated critique of power hierarchies from the perspective of indigenous ontologies and epistemologies.
Most recently, she has delved into topics such as colonized temporality, the indigenous body as a political territory, and ongoing debates on extractivism, social reproduction and economy in Latin America. She has made significant contributions to the field through specialized publications and international academic forums.
As interim professor during the upcoming winter semester for the Chair of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Latin American Institute held by Prof. Dr. Schütze, Dr. Ibáñez will continue the Chair’s strong academic focus on gender, migration and temporalities, and will actively contribute to the interdisciplinary projects currently being promoted by the chair.
She will also be teaching in the Master's degree programme at the Institute for Latin American Studies and the Bachelor’s degree programme Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie. During the winter semester, she will offer the following courses:
„Sprache als Macht: Benennung, Konnotation, und kulturelle Bedeutung“
„Wer ist indigen? Alterität, Repräsentation und die Erfindung des Othering“
„Konstituierung Lateinamerikas“ (with Dr. Lucio Piccoli)
