Felipe Fernández
Freie Universität Berlin
Lateinamerika-Institut
Doktorand
Altamerikanistik/Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
14197 Berlin
Ausbildung:
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2018 - 2022 |
Ph.D in Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie | summa cum laude Freie Universität Berlin |
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2015 - 2018 |
M.A in Interdisziplinäre Lateinamerikastudien Freie Universität Berlin |
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2011 - 2014 |
B.A in Geschichtswissenschaft (Hauptfach) und Sozial und -Kultuanthropologie (nebenfach) Freie Universität Berlin |
Arbeitserfahrungen
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2019 - 2023 |
wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter International Training Group “Temporalities of Future” Freie Universität Berlin |
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2015 - 2017 |
Studentische Hilfskraft Lehrstuhl für Geschichtswissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Stefan Rinke) Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Belrin |
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2013 - 2017 |
Studentische Hilfskraft SFB 700 “Regieren in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit“ Freie Universität Berlin |
Stipendien/ Auszeichnungen
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2019 |
The Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Prize "Designs for Scalable Infrastructure: On State Intervention in Buenaventura, Colombia" Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) |
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2018 - 2019 |
Research Fellow International Graduate School (IGK) “Between Spaces” Freie Universität Berlin |
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2019 |
FUBright Fellow Visiting scholar Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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2018 |
Erasmus + Fellow FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador |
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2016 |
DAAD Fellow (PROMOS) Student Exchange Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia |
November 2011:
Kursleiter: “Introducción a la antropología política de la infraestructura”, Departamento de Estudios Sociales, Flacso Ecuador
Forschungsschwerpunkte und –interessen:
- Urbane und politische Anthropologie
- Infrastruktur, Staat, Bürokratie
- Lateinamerika (insbesondere Bolivien und Kolumbien), Westeuropa
- Umwelt, Bergbau, Energiewende
Aktuelles Forschungsprojekt:
"Lithium, State and the Future in Bolivia. An Anthropology of the Underground"
As a key chemical in the contemporary era of energy transition, lithium (Li) has gained an enormous notoriety and it has been brought to the foreground by global politics. The Lithium Triangle (tríangulo del litio), a transnational region close to the Andes mountain range and shared by Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, is believed to contend more than 70% of the world’s lithium reserves. As part of the Triangle, the Salar de Uyuni, an enormous salt flat in the Bolivian highlands, is estimated to have around 21 million tons of lithium, turning the country into the biggest reservoirs of lithium worldwide. Although the state projects to produce and commercialize high amounts of the mineral, the current plant still extracts very low amounts of lithium due to techno-political, natural and managerial conundrums. Hitherto, the mineral still (merely) represents a promise for the future in Bolivia.
In this project, I address the calculations, anticipations, and imaginations around lithium extraction in Bolivia. Through the lens of what I call ‘technologies of anticipation’, I aim to shed light to the professional forecasters as experts in seeing, determining, and calculating underground wealth. By ‘technologies of anticipation’ I refer to technical and political tools such as calculations, mappings, and modellings, but also policy papers and development plans which aim to produce certainty and knowledge on the lithium’s wealth in the underground.
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Artikel in Fachzeitschfriften |
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2022 |
Coping with Extortion. On Violence, Parasites, and Water Infrastructures in Buenaventura, Colombia. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development 4(3): 296- 309. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31389/jied.124 |
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2022 |
Construir y reparar frente al desabastecimiento: estado, provisión de agua e infraestructura en Buenaventura, Colombia. Revista Colombiana de Antropología 58 (2):105-129. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X.2125 |
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Sammelbandeinträge |
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2023 |
Reparieren im Globalen Süden am Beispiel der Wasserinfrastruktur von Buenaventura, Kolumbien. In: Reparieren. Stiftung Deutsches Technisches Museum [in Press] |
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Rezensionen |
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2021 |
Under Construction. Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia (2019) von Daniel Mains Anthropologica 63(1): 1-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica6312021340 |
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2018 |
Landscapes of Freedom. Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia (2018). H-Soz-Kult, 22.05.2018 |
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2017 |
Erinnerung und Intersektionalität. Frauen als Opfer der argentinischen Staatsrepression (1975-1983) (2017) von Verónica Ada Abrego. CROLAR 6 (2): 28-30. |
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Andere Publikationen |
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2019 |
Blogeintrag “Posconflicto” y narrativas del terror en el Pacífico colombiano Kolumbien Blog: Frieden im Fokus https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/kolblog/posconflicto-y-narrativas-del-terror-en-el-pacifico-colombiano/ |
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2020 |
Blogeintrag Diarios de Covid. Desigualdad e infraestructura en Colombia Latin American Perspectives: https://laperspectives.blogspot.com/2020/04/diarios-de-covid.html |