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Infrastructure, opposition and cultural survival in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
No full textThe Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico has a fierce history of resistance, and the communities living there have their own infrastructural visions, which are rarely heard. In her research, Susanne Hofmann (LSE LACC) explores how residents interact with these projects while they advocate to not breaking with their ancestral cultural ties and ways of life
Episode 1 - The Interoceanic Corridor infrastructure project: how women perceive and think about it
No full textSusanne Hofmann talks to Astrid Paola Chavelas about women's experiences and perceptions of the Interoceanic Corridor infrastructure project in the Istmo de Tehuantepec/Mexico. This podcast is in Spanish
Episode 13 - hydroelectric dams, community rupture and resistance
No full textSusanne Hofmann talks to anthropologist and activist Mónica Montalvo from Sandía Digital about the history of hydroelectric projects in Mexico and resistance against them, with examples from Jalisco and Nayarit. They highlight the coloniality of those infrastructure projects that cause displacement and community rupture, but also discuss possible energy solutions that are small-scale, community-managed and sustainable. This podcast is in Spanish
Episode 7 - Protecting the Río Verde river from the Paso de la Reina hydroelectric dam
No full textSusanne Hofmann talks to Leonor Díaz Santos, a member of the Council of United Peoples in Defense of the Río Verde river (COPUDEVER), located in Oaxaca’s coastal region. Díaz Santos is Afro-Mixteca and defender of her territory, the river and the water. They discuss the suspected impacts of this hydroelectric project and the resistance that Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples undertook against it. This podcast is in Spanish
Introduction to the Special Issue Gender and Violence in Contexts of Migration and Displacement
No full textThis special issue originates from the Summer Symposium Reconsidering gender-based violence in the context of displacement and migration held at the Georg-August University of Göttingen on 6-7th July 2017. The working papers explore different forms of gender violence, avoiding the pitfalls of a mainstream feminism that reproduces stereotypes of victimhood and marginalisation. Instead, the authors emphasise the role of power in relation to various kinds of gender violence, paying attention to the intricate inequalities that structure victims’ lives. The authors contribute to intersectional and actor-focused understandings of gender violence in conditions of mobility within or across borders of nation states
Genero, sexualidades y mercados sexuales en sitios extractivos
No full textFrom Mexico to Argentina, through Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, this compilation presents case studies that intertwine and question different perspectives and “fables” about the gender order, the closeness of women to nature, harmony between women and men of ancestral cultures and their respectful practices with the land, as well as the blessing or curse associated with a nation that has mineral or oil resources. The first part explores the forms and consequences of the normalization of extractivism in rural and mostly indigenous areas of the mentioned countries. The second part focuses on the sexual markets associated with populations with extractive activity and the debates and conflicts between those who live from sex work and / or defend the right to choose such activity, and the bodies that pursue it as equivalent to trafficking. of people. “This compilation” - write Susanne Hofmann and Melisa Cabrapan, coordinators of the work - “presents an ethnographic work that analyzes how the extraction of resources generates and restructures the social relations between local and migrant communities, corporate actors, state officials and their groups broader interest and investigates how extraction economies create new gender domains for the exercise of power and new struggles for authority, in the micro and macro ”
Hofmann Susanne et Melisa Cabrapan Duarte (dir.), Género, sexualidades y mercados sexuales en sitios extractivos de América Latina
Full text linkDe la Patagonie argentine à Tijuana, en passant par l’Amazonie et les terres andines, l’objet de recherche de Género, sexualidades y mercados sexuales en sitios extractivos de América Latina est pour le moins original, puisqu’il s’agit de croiser les thématiques d’économie et de biologie avec celle du genre, le tout à travers une approche ethnographique et décoloniale. Deux jeunes chercheuses sont à l’origine de ce recueil de textes. Susanne Hofmann est spécialiste des questions de genre et d..
Rezension von: Ernst Osterkamp (Hg.): Rudolf Borchardt und seine Zeitgenossen. Berlin / New York 1997. Sowie: Susanne Hofmann: Bildung und Sehnsucht. Untersuchungen zum Mittelalterbild Rudolf Borchardts. Paderborn / München / Wien / Zürich 1995
No full textKauffmann K. Rezension von: Ernst Osterkamp (Hg.): Rudolf Borchardt und seine Zeitgenossen. Berlin / New York 1997. Sowie: Susanne Hofmann: Bildung und Sehnsucht. Untersuchungen zum Mittelalterbild Rudolf Borchardts. Paderborn / München / Wien / Zürich 1995. Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift. 1998;48(2):255-258
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