Thursday 16th April 19.00 – 20.00 Welcome drinks, Town House, Union Street Aberdeen Friday 17th April 09.00 – 09.30 Registration, Elphinstone Hall 09.30 – 11.00 Panel Session 1, Various Locations – see detailed programme 11.00 – 11.30 Tea and Coffee; Elphinstone Hall 11.30 – 13.00 Panel Session 2, Various Locations – see detailed programme 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch, Elphinstone Hall SLAS Committee Meeting; Linnklater Rooms 14.00 – 15.30 Panel Session 3, Various Locations – see detailed programme 15.30 – 16.00 Tea and Coffee, Elphinstone Hall BLAR, 'Meet the Editors’ Session, Linkater Rooms 16.00 – 17.30 Panel Session 4, Various Locations – see detailed programme 17.30 – 18.30 Keynote Address, New King’s 6 19.30 for 20.00 Drinks Reception followed by Dinner and Ceilidh, Beach Ballroom Saturday 18th April 09.30 – 11.00 SLAS AGM 11.00 – 11.30 Tea and Coffee, Elphinstone Hall 11.30 – 13.00 Panel Session 5, Various Locations – see detailed programme 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch, Elphinstone Hall PILAS Lunch, Linklater Rooms 14.00 – 15.30 Panel Session 6, Various Locations – see detailed programme 15.30 – 16.00 Tea and Coffee, Elphinstone Hall 16.00 – 17.30 Panel Session 7, Various Locations – see detailed programme 17.30 Conference Close 1 Panel Sessions One – Friday 09.30 – 11.00 ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S FOURTEEN States and Social Change in Latin America Maura Duffy – University of Manchester Single Panel Title and Author In and Against the State? Social Policy and Grassroots Organisation in Venezuela Maura Duffy - University of Manchester The category desplazado and creation of social boundaries Mateja Celestina – Coventry University ‘Orteguismo’ and state-society relations in Nicaragua Sarah Hunt – University of Manchester State Response to Urban Violence in El Salvador Kirsten Howarth – Dalhousie University ROOM: TITLE: CONVENORS: KING’S COLLEGE GROUND FLOOR SEVEN Politico-Territorial Autonomy and Resource Governance Anna Laing and Francesca Minelli – University of Glasgow Single Panel Title and Author Conflicts between biodiversity protection and sand mining: A case study in the coastal sand dunes of El Socorro, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Natalia Rodriguez-Revelo - Universidad Autonoma de Baja Autonomy and Collaboration in Communitarian Water and Sewage Provision: The relationship between municipalities and water cooperatives in the Cochabamba Conurbation. Francesca Minelli - University of Glasgow The Diversification of the Matriz Extractivista and Social Conflict in Uruguay. The Case of Aratirí (Cerro Chato) Stefan Peters - Kassel University ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE FIRST FLOOR SEVEN 'Bring-a-baby' panel: Autonomies and Gender in Latin America Maria Soledad Montañes – University of Stirling Title and Author Un ser capaz de empuñar la vida? Autonomy and Women during the 1910 Centenary in Argentina Iona Macintyre - University of Edinburgh Militancy and mothering: The ultimate work-life balance? Rachael Nazarko - King's College Mother Nature: Autonomy and Motherhood in Alicia Scherson’s ‘Turistas’ Maria Soledad Montañes – University of Stirling 2 Single Panel ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S TEN Autonomous urban planners? Thepolitics of space in developing sustainable urban futures Christien Klaufus - CEDLA Title and Author Planning sustainable urban deathscapes Christien Klaufus – CEDLA Bottom-up planning in the current debate Roberto Rocco - Delft University of Technology Perceptions of planners on an electric escalator Letty Reimerink - Independent researcher The Post-"Best Practice" City: Politics, Planning and Change in Bogotá, Colombia Erich Hellmer - University of Glasgow Dwelling space and the challenge of independización in multi-family housing arrangements in Southern Lima Michaela Hordijk and Viviana d’Auria – University of Amsterdam and KU Leuven 3 Single Panel Only Panel Sessions Two – Friday 11.30 – 13.00 ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S FOURTEEN The Cuban Revolution; the Embodiement of Autonomy Mervyn Bain – University of Aberdeen Single Panel Title and Author Cuban Medical Cooperation in Brazil John Kirk – Dalhousie University Cuban-Russian Relations in 2015; asymmetric power in harmony? Mervyn Bain – University of Aberdeen LGBT and Well-Being: The Normalization of Sexual Diversity in Contemporary Cuba Through a Health-based Approach Emily Kirk – University of Nottingham Why does Cuba care so much about Ebola and other global health calamaties: Understanding the solidarity approach to Cuban medical outreach. Robert Huish – Dalhousie University ROOM: TITLE: CONVENORS: DISCUSSANT: NEW KING’S ONE Autonomy and the Good Life (Vivir Beien / Buen Vivir) in Latin America Jonathan Alderman and Rosalyn Bold - University of St Andrews and University of Manchester Maggie Bolton, University of Aberdeen Single Panel Title and Author Implementing the ideals of the Vivir Bien: A Callawaya tourism project Rosalyn Bold –University of Manchester Indigenous Autonomy and Vivir Bien: Living Well through the ayllu Jonathan Alderman – University of St Andrews Trabajo y Explotación Laboral Infantil en Poblaciones Indígenas de Bolivia Ruben Dario Chaymbi Mayta - Fundacion Desarrollo y Autogestion, Bolivia ROOM: TITLE: CONVENORS: NEW KING’S SIX Spectres of Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century? Cultural Autonomy in Venezuela Single Panel Lisa Blackmore, Rebecca Jarman and Penélope Plaza - Universität Zürich, University of Cambridge and City University London Title and Author The spatialization of the power of oil: PDVSA as place entrepreneur in the regeneration of Sabana Grande Boulevard Penelope Plaza – City University Phantom pavilions: El Helicoide and La Torre de David as contested microcosms of the nation-state Lisa Blackmore - Universität Zürich Defining the limits of the nation: Indigenous organisations and the Bolivarian revolution Natalia Garcia Bonet – University of Kent Political Landslides in Venezuela? Ideology, Childhood and Natural Disaster in Una tarde con campanas(2004) and El chico que miente (2011) Rebecca Jarman – University of Cambridge When the Boat Comes In: Myth, Reification, and the Changing Face of Simón Bolívar in Venezuelan Politics and Culture Nicholas Roberts - Durham University 4 ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE GROUND FLOOR SEVEN Solidarity campaigns and Latin America Grace Livingstone - University of Cambridge Double Panel Title and Author Why did the Chile Solidarity Campaign have more success than the Argentine Solidarity Movement in Britain? Grace Livingstone – University of Cambridge The Dutch solidarity movement in the path of Chile´s redemocratization Mariana Perry - Leiden University Spatiality, Contentious Politics and Power - Lessons from a Mexican Peace Movement. Sebastian Scholl – Bamberg University ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE GROUND FLOOR EIGHT Ideas, Institutions and Elites: The Intellectual Origins of Capitalism in Latin America David Pretel - Pompeu Fabra University Double Panel Title and Author Cohesion, visibility and politics: The symbiotic relationship between neoliberalism and business classes in Argentina and Chile Tomás Undurraga – University of Cambridge José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz in the Longue Durée: The Making of an Argentine Neoliberal Joseph A. Francis – Independent Scholar Rural Capitalism in Twentieth-Century Latin America: Ruling-elite preferences and economic policy in Colombia Carlos Andrés Brando – Pompeu Fabra University Technological Modernity and the Cuban Colonial Elite in the 19th Century David Pretel - Pompeu Fabra University ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE FIRST FLOOR EIGHT Intersections: Autonomy, Creativity, the Political, and the Poetics of Resistance David M Wood - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Title and Author The Poetics of Resistance and Concepts of Autonomy Cornelia Gräbner - Lancaster University Of Poets and Pirates: Martín Adán’s La casa de carton (1928) as a Model for Autonomy in a Post-Modern Age Maria Spitz - South Dakota State University Navigating Dependence on National Identity in the Work of Flavia Company Natasha Tanna - University of Cambridge 5 Double Panel ROOM: TITLE: CONVENORS: NEW KING’S TEN Autonomy of the people: Discourse, hegemony and democracy in Latin American contemporary political processes Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti and Emilia Ferraro - Newcastle University and University of St. Andrews Double Panel Title and Author Post-neoliberal protest movement in Argentina and Brazil: Political discourse between new demands and old social imaginaries Juan Pablo Ferrero – University of Bath The Case of the Missing Vanguard Clifton Ross - PM Press Representations of the autonomous subaltern in the Zapatista discourse: Issues of Democracy and Identity Isabelle Gribomont - University of St Andrews Paradoxical Responses to Corruption: The Role of Public Participation in Enacting Brazil's Anti-Corruption Laws Andreia Carmo - University of Oxford ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: CHAIR: THE LINKLATER ROOMS Political Mobilisation and Race in Latin America - from Independence to Neo Liberalism Elizabeth Cooper, British Library Teresa Meade, Union College Title and Author Interpreting the other America: José Martí's racial diagnosis of the United States, 1882-1890 Oleski Miranda Navarro - University of Edinburgh Remapping América: Maps, Map-making and the Invention of Jesuit New World Imaginaries, 1767-1810 Luis Ramos - New York University From quilombo to favela and back: Rio's Urban Quilombo Sacopã and the Limits of Multiculturalism Desiree Poets - Aberystwyth University Constructing A National Identity: Veiled Whiteness & The Racialization of Citizenship in 19th Century Honduras Jose Lara - Grand Valley State University 6 Single Panel Panel Sessions Three – Friday 14.00 – 15.30 ROOM: TITLE: CONVENORS: NEW KING’S FOURTEEN Latin American Football Cultures in Historical Perspectives Matthew Brown, Brenda Elsey and David Wood - University of Bristol, Hofstra University and University of Sheffield Double Panel Title and Author The Beautiful Game? Women and Football in South America David Wood - The University of Sheffield The Origins of Football in Ecuador Matthew Brown - University of Bristol Football, urban expansion and lifestyle in Sao Paulo, 1880-1920 Gloria Lanci - University of Bristol ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S ONE Autonomies as radical decentralisation? Lessons from Bolivia Phillip Horn - University of Manchester Double Panel Title and Author ‘I Stole Children for the Community’: The role of obras in local political processes in the Bolivian Altiplano Rachel Godfrey Wood - Institute of Development Studies Indigenous autonomy in the city? Lessons from La Paz's Southern Periphery Philipp Horn - University of Manchester Indigenous autonomies (AIOC) in Bolivia: Developments and Shortcomings (2009-2014) Alexandra Tomaselli - European Academy ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S SIX Making Autonomy: Design, Material and Visual culture in Latin America Patricia Lara-Betancourt and Livia Rezende - Royal College of Art/ Kingston University and Royal College of Art Title and Author Vernacular Design: A possibility for autonomy? Fernanda Cardoso - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Doing, Making and Performing ‘Chicha': ‘Grafica Popular' and Vernacular Culture in Lima, Peru. Caroline Hodges - Bournemouth University Making the process visible, the turn in design education in Uruguay María José Lopez Belatti - Escuela Universitaria Centro de Diseño Paternalism and response. ALADI (Latin American Association of Industrial Design) as the image of an autonomous Latin America Juan Buitrago - Universidade de São Paulo 7 Double Panel ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE GROUND FLOOR SEVEN Solidarity campaigns and Latin America Grace Livingstone – University of Cambridge Double Panel Title and Author The role of solidarity movements in promoting health and well-being among exiles: The case of Chileans in the UK Jasmine Gideon – Birbeck London Chile: the seed that triggered widespread interest in Latin America. Mike Gatehouse – Latin America Bureau Transnational Solidarity in Opposition to the Pinochet Regime: Labour Internationalism in Liverpool and Beyond Marieke Riethof - University of Liverpool ROOM: TITLE: CONVENORS: KING’S COLLEGE FIRST FLOOR SEVEN Between the local and the global: Transnational experiences of Latin American Migrants Jenny Rodriguez and Angelo Martins Jr –Newcastle University and Goldsmiths University, London Double Panel Title and Author Beyond the state control, the manifold forms of the control regime: Undocumented migration along the transnational clandestine migratory corridor EcuadorMexico-U.S. Soledad Alvarez Velasco - King's College London Translocal Belongings: Lived experiences and re-making identity of Colombian and Palestinian refugees in Latin America. Marcia A. Vera Espinoza - University of Sheffield Bolivian migrants in Chile: Spaces and places of (non)citizenship Megan Ryburn - Queen Mary, University of London ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE FIRST FLOOR EIGHT Intersections: Autonomy, Creativity, the Political, and the Poetics of Resistance David M Wood - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Double Panel Title and Author ‘Mi ética es la estética’: Bíofilo Panclasta and ‘anarchist’ writing Joey Whitfield- University of Leeds Autonomy, the state, appropriation and ‘committed’ audiovisual praxis David M Wood - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The cultural politics of artist-activist collectives in Buenos Aires, Argentina Elke Linders - Utrecht University Representaciones de la violencia política en Canto a su amor desaparecido de Zurita María José Barros, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile ROOM: NEW KING’S TEN TITLE: Autonomy of the people: Discourse, hegemony and democracy in Latin American contemporary political processes CONVENOR: Juan Pablo Ferrero - University of Bath Title and Author Redefining autonomy in times of the Ayotzinapa drama: The role of community police forces in Guerrero, Mexico Merel de Buck - University of Utrecht Hegemony vs Autonomy: What does South America tell us? Samuele Mazzolini - University of Essex 8 Double Panel Problems and Contradictions of Participatory Democracy: Lessons from Latin America Claudio Balderacchi Panel Sessions Four – Friday 16.00 – 17.30 ROOM: TITLE: CONVENORS: NEW KING’S FOURTEEN Latin American Football Cultures in Historical Perspectives Matthew Brown, Brenda Elsey and David Wood - University of Bristol, Hofstra University and University of Sheffield Double Panel Title and Author Amazonia:' Women and Football in Chile Brenda Elsey - Hofstra University Football Supporters’ Clubs in Latin America: Contemporary looks Bernardo Buarque - Fundação Getúlio Vargas ‘We don't know how to lose': Gender, Race, and Region in Brazilian World Cup and Miss Universe Press Coverage (1954-1962) Courtney J. Campbell - Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S ONE Autonomies as radical decentralisation? Lessons from Bolivia Phillip Horn - University of Manchester Double Panel Title and Author Autonomy in Opposition: Indigeneity, extraction and struggle Jessica Hope - University of Manchester Constructing Autonomies in the Bolivian Lowlands: From Self-determination to What? Katinka Weber - University of Liverpool ‘We are already autonomous, but we claim for more autonomy’: The case of Raqaypampa Mauricio Hashizume - Centre for Social Studies / University of Coimbra ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S SIX Making Autonomy: Design, Material and Visual culture in Latin America Patricia Lara-Betancourt and Livia Rezende - Royal College of Art/ Kingston University and Royal College of Art Double Panel Title and Author Projecting the nation? Public Space Design in Sao Paulo and London during the mid-20th Century Susannah Hagan - Royal College of Art A Brazilian Design out of a Foreign Vision: Educational Aims of Museums, Industrial and Graphic Design between Popular and Mass Culture Aline Coelho Sanches Corato - Universidade de São Paulo Otherness became own. The origins of the modern design in Mexico Oscar Salinas Flores - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 9 ROOM: TITLE: CONVENORS: KING’S COLLEGE FIRST FLOOR SEVEN Between the local and the global: Transnational experiences of Latin American Migrants Jenny Rodriguez and Angelo Martins Jr - Newcastle University and Goldsmiths University, London Double Panel Title and Author Making a home: Materialising belongings, identities and memories in the experiences of exile and return Macarena Bonhomme – Goldsmiths, University of London A música, os músicos e a comunidade brasileira em Lisboa-Portugal Amanda Fernandes Guerreiro - Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa Brazilians in the UK: Recent Trends of a Migration Stream Julio Davies - King's College London Navigating dynamics of displacement, exclusion and containment: Brazilian women's experiences of transnational mobility Angelo Martins Jr – Goldsmiths College ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE FIRST FLOOR EIGHT Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender: Intersections and Complexities of Categories of Discrimination and Inequality Desiree Poets - Aberystwyth University Single Panel Title and Author Beauty pageants at the intersection of indigeneity, gender and class in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala Elisabet Rasch - Wageningen University Ageism in the context of oppression: Cultural assumptions, stereotypes and the marginalization of elders in today’s rapidly ageing world Gisela Castro - ESPM Analyzing thinking as the origin of social inequality: Children, social class, schooling, and families in Chile. Pablo Torres - University of Cambridge ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S TEN Autonomy, Movement, and the Constraints of Identity: Defining Nation, Self and Other in Latin America Marcia Stephenson - Purdue University Title and Author Intercultural Go-Betweens in the 19th-Century Bolivian Andes: A Case History of Autonomy and Interdependence Marcia Stephenson - Purdue University Bertha Lutz' quest for authority and autonomy in the early 20th-century Brazilian scientific community Michelle Medeiros - Marquette University Locating Home and Away: Traversing the Risks and Constraints of Nature, Nation, and Adventure at the Foot of the Argentine Andes Joy Logan - University of Hawai The Institute of Volunteers. An autonomous Cuban movement within the Spanish Empire? Fernando J. Padilla Angulo - University of Bristol 10 Single Panel ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: THE LINKLATER ROOMS Tensions and conflicts derived from by the exercise of indigenous peoples' right to autonomy: Experiences from the Andean region Amelia Alva-Arevalo - Ghent University Title and Author Andoas: an open wound in the Peruvian Amazon Amelia Alva-Arevalo - Ghent University The introduction of Direct Democracy in Latin America: Brazil, Venezuela and Bolivia, three cases in three different decades. Pedro Capra - Centre for Research on Direct Democracy (c2d) University of Zurich Afro - Brazilian heritage in the first decades of no more Brazilian slave system Agata Bloch - Polish Academy of Sciences 11 Single Panel Panel Sessions Five – Saturday 11.30 – 13.00 ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S FOURTEEN Indigenous Autonomies and Adaptation in the Americas Caroline Williams – University of Bristol Single Panel Title and Author ‘Jiguaní inmortal’: Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Indigeneity in an ‘Indian Town’ in Cuba, c. 1700-1800 Jason Yaremko - University of Winnipeg Iyambae: Alienation, autonomy and the ethos of being ‘without an owner' among the Chiriguano-Guarani Agustin Diz - London School of Economics Aymara Struggles for Schooling and Autonomy in Bolivia, 1920s-1940s. Brooke Larson - Stony Brook University The Power of the Plume: Guarani Autonomy and Literacy during the Crises of the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Paraguay Barbara Ganson - Florida Atlantic University ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: * * * * NEW KING’S ONE Latin America without borders: Regional cooperation in comparative perspective Hilary Francis - Institute of Latin American Studies Double Panel Title and Author The pulp mill conflict and its implications for regional cooperation in the Southern Cone Karen Siegel - University of Glasgow ‘Lifting the veil of ignorance’? Cuban teachers in revolutionary Nicaragua Hilary Francis - Institute of Latin American Studies Building the Patria Grande: Breaking Down the Borders to Social Guarantees under the “Right to Migration” Paradigm Simca Theresa Simpson - London School of Economics and Political Science Knocking down the borders at the local level Mariano Alvarez - Leiden University ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S SIX ‘Buen vivir’ as policy and practice in Latin America Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti - Durham University Double Panel Title and Author Bienestar Social Rural: Improving Rural Physical and Social Well-Being in 1950s Mexico Stephanie Opperman - Georgia College Progreso, Inclusion Social, Extraction, and Well-being in Peru: A Comparative Approach to Everyday Indigenous Experience Lexy Seedhouse and Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti - Newcastle University and Durham University Buen Vivir and the appropriation of political rhetoric: The multiple uses of Buen Vivir in strategic differentiations Daniela Bressa Florentin - University of Bath 12 ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE GROUND FLOOR SEVEN Culture, Politics and Identity Andor Skotnes – The Sage Colleges Single Panel Title and Author Increase and autonomy of the participation of working classes in art exhibitions in Brazil Lígia Dabul - Universidade Federal Fluminense Carmen Berenguer’s Bobby Sands desfallece en el muro (1983): Writing oppression Bárbara Fernández - University of Edinburgh Andrés Bello, Francisco Bilbao and the Place of Reason in Latin America Monica González - Universidad de Talca Diagnoses on the nation: The Brazilian Cultural History in the 1930's André Joanilho – UEL ROOM: KING’S COLLEGE GROUND FLOOR EIGHT TITLE: The Political Ecology of Extraction: Negotiating livelihoods and landscapes across Latin America (Territory, Livelihood and Conflict) CONVENOR: Jessica Hope – Manchester University Title and Author Mapping the Multivocality of the Opposition to Metallic Mining in El Salvador Ainhoa Montoya - Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London Agroindustry and the perspectives for peasant autonomy on Peru's coast Andrew Jobling - Sheffield Hallam University Is it all about the water? Exploring conflicts between indigenous communities and the mining industry in the Atacama Desert Katy Jenkins and Hugo Romero Toledo - Northumbria University and Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social Ecuador and the architecture and culture of Extractivism Alejandra Espinosa - University of Amsterdam 13 Double Panel ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE FIRST FLOOR EIGHT Neoliberal Governance and Responses Mervyn Bain – University of Aberdeen Single Panel Title and Author Regionalism and Extractivism: Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America Kristin Ciupa - Queen Mary University of London The sweatshops and labour conditions of Latin American immigrants in São Paulo's clothing production chain Joana Contino - Pontifícia Universidade Católica Management strategies in Argentine printing workers’ co-operatives Paola Raffaelli - University of Roehampton The Brazilian landless movement assistance in the return of Brazilian emigrants from Paraguay Marcos Estrada - University of Warwick ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S TEN Why the PRI Returned to Power in Mexico? Peter Watt – Sheffield University Single Panel Title and Author Media reform in Mexico. Continuity or change? Jose Antonio Brambila - University of Sheffield Peña Nieto and the return of authoritarian politics John Ackerman - Sciences Po "Explaining the failure of the Anticorruption Reform in Mexico" Irma Eréndira Sandoval Ballesteros - National Autonomous University of Mexico 14 Panel Sessions Six – Saturday 14.00 – 15.30 ROOM: TITLE: CONVENORS: NEW KING’S FOURTEEN Indigenous cultures in Latin America: Ethnohistorical and linguistic approaches Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar and Katja Hannss - Stirling University and University of Cologne Double Panel Title and Author Why state the obvious? Tense-aspect marking and its connection to information structure in Garifuna Steffen Haurholm-Larsen - Bern University Word formation in Kallawaya: Compounding and incorporation Katja Hannss - Universitaet Koeln Spanish elements in Yurakaré against the background of language contact theory Rik van Gijn - University of Cologne ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: * * * NEW KING’S ONE Latin America without borders: Regional cooperation in comparative perspective Hilary Francis - Institute of Latin American Studies Title and Author The Mystery of Peru's ‘Casas ALBA’: Venezuelan ‘Social Power’ Projection or Bottom-Up Social Regionalisation? Asa Cusack - Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London Comparative analysis of limits and possibilities under ALBA and UNASUR Emine Tahsin - Istanbul university ALBA: Towards Regional Autonomy through Integration Kristin Ciupa - Queen Mary University of London ROOM: TITLE: CONVENORS: NEW KING’S SIX Buen vivir’ as policy and practice in Latin America Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti and Emilia Ferraro - Newcastle University and University of St. Andrews Title and Author Buen vivir y saberes ancestrales Emilia Ferraro - University of St. Andrews Lekil Kuxlejal (Buen Vivir) as Cultural Capital in Chiapas, Mexico Susanna Rostas - Cambridge University El buen vivir y el proyecto politico de la CONAIE Leon Zamosc - University of California, San Diego * Double Panel Indicates paper that has changed order since the abstract booklet has been published. 15 Double Panel ROOM: KING’S COLLEGE GROUND FLOOR SEVEN TITLE: The Latin American involvement in South-South development cooperation CONVENOR: Danilo Marcondes – University of Cambridge Single Panel Title and Author The role of a donor in an emerging power's foreign policy: Brazilian solidarity diplomacy Monika Sawicka - Jagiellonian University El papel de México en el sistema de cooperación internacional. Una perspectiva desde sus acciones de Cooperación Sur-Sur en América Latina. Analilia Huitron - Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) Brazil’s South South Cooperation with Africa; a win win Relationship ? The case of biofuel production in Mozambique Gabrielle W.Cusson - Université de Liège ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE GROUND FLOOR EIGHT The Political Ecology of Extraction: Negotiating livelihoods and landscapes across Latin America (Environmental Policy versus Extraction) Jessica Hope - University of Manchester Double Panel Title and Author Extraction, Conservation & Indigeneity: The case of the Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), Bolivia Jessica Hope - University of Manchester Environmental perspectives on a scenario of open pit mining in a Natural Protected Area. The case of El Arco, Baja California. Naum Lugo - Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Agribusiness and forest conservation in Brazil: An analysis of recent institutional changes Flavia Donadelli - London School of Economics and Political Science Transnational mining projects in Wirikuta Sacred Natural site: Mobilizing global heritage in search for conservation Oscar Felipe Reyna Jimenez - Wageningen University ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE FIRST FLOOR SEVEN Cultural politics in Latin America and critical theory today: Historical displacements, new approaches Tomas Peters - Birkbeck, University of London Title and Author Reflections on discourses of Latin American culture and hybridization Ignacio Rivera - Goldsmiths, University of London Leopoldo Zea and the Latin-American Thinking Christine Esterbauer - University of Vienna Lugar de emergencia y trayectoria del pensamiento Cultura para el Desarrollo en América Latina (1970-2010). María Paulina Soto Labbé - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados Universidad de Santiago de Chile 16 Double Panel ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S TEN Philosophy and Political Engagement in Latin America Trevor Stack – University of Aberdeen Single Panel Title and Author Camilo Torres - Che Guevara of the Catholics? Eitan Ginzberg - Kibbutzim College of Education Zapata reloaded: a Žižekian approach to contemporary Mexico Ramon I. Centeno - University of Sheffield Transnational Associational Life and Political Mobilizationof Latin Americans in Southern Europe: What Role for Sending State Policies? Ana Margheritis - University of Southampton 17 Panel Sessions Seven – Saturday 16.00 – 17.30 ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S FOURTEEN Indigenous cultures in Latin America: ethnohistorical and linguistic approaches Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar - Stirling University Double Panel Title and Author Colonial Andean confessionaries as linguistic and ethnohistorical sources Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar - Stirling University From sesmeiro Luiz de Miranda to descendant of « the Portugueses »or how to (re)constitute a sociology of the historical occupation of the lower-Amazon Ricardo Theophilo Folhes - Universidade Federal do Para Ethnohistory's History Mark Thurner - University of London ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: NEW KING’S ONE Media pluralism, autonomy and journalistic practices: rethinking the media role in Latin America Carla Moscoso – University of Cambridge Single Panel Title and Author Subnational Media Systems in New Democracies. The Case of Local Media Systems in Mexican Provinces Jose Antonio Brambila - The University of Sheffield Legitimizing Legalization or Restricting Reform? The Media's Role in Uruguay's Drug Policy Reform Process Jonas von Hoffmann - University of Oxford Real time news and the financialization of economic reporting in Brazil: an ethnography of Valor Economico’s newsroom Tomas Undurraga - University of Cambridge Media concentration and political democratisation: Shaping human rights debate in Chile and Argentina post dictatorship Carla Moscoso - University of Cambridge ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE FIRST FLOOR SEVEN Cultural politics in Latin America and critical theory today: historical displacements, new approaches Felipe Lago – Goldsmiths College, London Title and Author Cultural Policy Guidelines in Peru: The end of one hundred years of solitude of cultural politics? Adriana Arista-Zerga - University of Nottingham Cultural policies in a political conflict context: the case of Mapuche Lavkenche communities, Arauco Province, Chile. Nikolas Stüdemann - Wageningen University Cultural politics and cultural criticism in Chile post-Dictatorship Tomas Peters - Birkbeck, University of London 18 Double Panel ROOM: TITLE: CONVENOR: KING’S COLLEGE FIRST FLOOR EIGHT Resources, Rights and Political Ecology in Latin America Maggie Bolton – University of Aberdeen Single Panel Title and Author Sugarcane Ethanol: The Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agribusiness and the State in Brazil Leandro Vergara-Camus - SOAS, University of London Livelihoods and landscape in Tejo River basin, Brazil: global economies, national policies and local dwelling Roberto Rezende - University of Campinas "¿Tendrá término un día tu carrera / Tumultuosa y fiera?": The Rise and Fall of Los Saltos del Guairá Richard Niland - University of Strathclyde 19