Belén Díaz
Freie Universität Berlin
ZI Lateinamerika-Institut
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
PhD Candidate - IRTG "Temporalities of Future in Latin America"
Projekthaus Boltzmannstr. 4
14195 Berlin
Academic Positions |
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Since 05.2019 |
Researcher International Research Training Group "Temporalities of Future in Latin America: Dynamics of Aspiration and Anticipation" Institute for Latin American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin) |
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10.2018 – 04.2019 |
Researcher and Lecturer Institute for Latin American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin) Department of Sociology - Prof. Dr. Sérgio Costa |
Education |
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Since 10.2018 |
PhD Candidate in Sociology (Freie Universität Berlin) Working title: Struggles for Hegemony in the 21st Century. The Renewal of the Latin American Right |
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10.2014 – 09.2017 |
M.A. in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin) Area of specialization: "Transformation and Development" (Sociology) |
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10.2011 – 09.2014 |
B.A. in Sociology (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) Minor: Social and Cultural Anthropology Thesis: Identity Constructions and (De-)Coloniality. The Path of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement towards the Plurinational State |
Academic Experience |
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Teaching |
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10.2018 – 03.2019 |
Master’s course "Interdisciplinary Latin American Research" (Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) |
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Research stays |
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07. – 12.2019 |
Universidade de São Paulo (USP) (São Paulo - Brazil) |
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Presentations |
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22. – 25.10.2019 |
Opening Conference of the International Research Training Group "Temporalities of Future in Latin America: Dynamics of Aspiration and Anticipation" (Colegio de México) Title: New Right in Plural, Social Media and Polarization. Reading the Latin American Political Situation from the Brazilian Experience |
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15.06.2019 |
Panel Discussion "Turn to the Right in Latin America" at the "Long Night of the Sciences" (Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) Title: Social Media and the New Right |
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05.06.2019 |
Master’s Lecture "The Latin American Future: Authoritarianism, Populism and the Struggle for Political Participation" (Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) Title: The New Right in Plural in Latin America: Transnational Networks and Digital Media |
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07.05.2019 |
Second Research Conference on the Andean Region, Panel: Ecuador (trAndeS) Presentation: Struggles for Hegemony in the 21st Century. The Renewal of the Right in Latin America |
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27. – 28.04.2018 |
Planning of the II International Colloquium "Thinking Ecuador from abroad, thinking about the world from Ecuador" (Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) Title: Struggles for Hegemony in the 21st Century. The Renewal of the Latin American Right |
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12.07.2017 |
Master’s Lecture "Populism in Latin America: Continuities and Disruptions" (Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) Title: New Right Wing, Political Campaigns and “the New Latin American Electorate” |
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23. – 24.06.2017 |
Title: New Right and Political Campaigns. How Are "the New Latin American Voters" Being Interpellated? |
Internships |
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09. – 11.2015 |
Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Berlin - Germany) Department for Latin America and the Caribbean |
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03. – 04.2014 |
Ministry of Political Administration (Secretaría Nacional de Gestión de la Política) (Quito - Ecuador) Department for Interculturality |
Memberships |
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Since 03.2017 |
Member of the Editorial Board of the Social Science Journal "Theorein" (Catholic University Ecuador, PUCE) |
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02.2015 – 01.2017 |
Student Representative at the Council of the Institute for Latin American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin) |
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10.2014 – 09.2017 |
Member of the Students Association of the Institute for Latin American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Scholarships |
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09. – 12.2017 |
Predoctoral Scholarship of the International Research Training Group "Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalisation" (Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin), granted by the German Research Association (DFG) |
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10.2011 – 09.2016 |
Scholarship of the "Program for Excellent Graduates of German Schools Abroad", granted by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
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01. – 02.2009 |
Scholarship of the "Support Initiative for Partner Schools and German Schools Abroad" (Universität des Saarlandes), granted by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
Language Skills |
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Spanish |
Mother Tongue |
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English |
Proficient |
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German |
Proficient |
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Portuguese |
Proficient |
Winter term 2018/19
Interdisziplinäre Lateinamerikaforschung (Master’s course "Interdisciplinary Latin American Research”)
Research fields
- Political Sociology
- Latin American Studies
- New Right
- Qualitative Research
PhD project "Struggles for Hegemony in the 21st Century: The Renewal of the Latin American Right"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sérgio Costa
This research addresses the aggiornamento of the right wing in Latin America, focusing on how actors of this political tendency engage in contemporary struggles for hegemony through innovative discourses and mobilization mechanisms. I am particularly interested in actors who are born outside traditional partisan spaces and shift between heterogeneous fields, thus generating political logics and practices that are to some extent sui generis. Specifically, I explore changes in the forms and processes of representation, mobilization and construction of right-wing political subjects. Therefore, I delve into the successful case of the Movimento Brasil Livre (Free Brazil Movement), an organization founded by young activists in 2014 that led the protests in favor of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observation, I analyze how rejuvenated right-wing political cultures and multi-sited political grammars have been forged at the crossroads between social media and the streets. Hence, this research contributes to filling a gap in the literature on political change in Latin America, which at the beginning of the century dealt mainly with the "pink tide", thereby neglecting the strategies of the right wing. All in all, the case study of the MBL serves as a pivotal exponent for nourishing the debate on the transnational advance of right-wing actors in the region and the world from an interdisciplinary perspective mainly based on political sociology.
Proyecto doctoral “Luchas por la hegemonía en el siglo XXI: La renovación de las derechas en América Latina”
Director de tesis: Prof. Dr. Sérgio Costa
Este proyecto investiga el aggiornamento de las derechas en América Latina, poniendo énfasis en cómo los actores de esta tendencia política participan en las luchas por la hegemonía contemporáneas a través de discursos y mecanismos de movilización innovadores. Me interesan, sobre todo, aquellos actores que nacen fuera de espacios partidarios tradicionales y circulan entre campos heterogéneos, de modo que construyen lógicas y prácticas políticas hasta cierto punto sui generis. Específicamente, exploro los cambios en las formas y procesos de representación, movilización y construcción de sujetos políticos de derecha. Para ello, contemplo el exitoso caso del Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL), una organización de jóvenes activistas fundada en 2014 que lideró las protestas a favor de la destitución de Dilma Rousseff. Con base en entrevistas en profundidad y observación participante, analizo cómo han surgido culturas políticas rejuvenecidas y gramáticas políticas multilocalizadas entre las redes sociales y las calles. En este sentido, dicha investigación contribuye a llenar un vacío en la literatura sobre el cambio político en América Latina, la cual a principios de siglo se concentró en la "marea rosa", de tal forma que soslayó las estrategias de las derechas. En suma, el estudio de caso del MBL sirve como un exponente pivotante para aportar al debate sobre el avance transnacional de las derechas en la región y el mundo desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria nutrida principalmente por la sociología política.
- Díaz, B. (2020). La derecha latinoamericana contraataca: Más allá de los partidos políticos. Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, (126), 268-271. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2020.126.3.268
- Díaz, B. (2019). “Sí podemos vivir mejor”. Estrategias de la nueva derecha ecuatoriana para interpelar a las clases medias. trAndeS Working Paper Series, 9. Berlin: Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved from https://www.programa-trandes.net/Ressources/working_papers/WP9-Diaz-Online.pdf
- Díaz, B. (2017). Luchas por la hegemonía en el siglo XXI. La renovación de las derechas en tiempos de progresismo en América Latina. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-1730