Author: Juan P Acevedo

Juan P Acevedo

  • Oscar Pedraza

    Thanks to the CLACS Summer Travel Fellowship in 2014 I to traveled to Colombia and conducted preliminary fieldwork on my dissertation, which focuses in the conflicts and interactions between human rights advocates, grassroots organizations, aid agencies, NGOs and multilateral institutions for the creation of emblematic cases of human rights related to mining industries. During this…

  • Rafael Lemos

    Thanks to a CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship I spent a month in Mexico City conducting research on the Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad, a grassroots movement that, led by the poet Javier Sicilia, fighted for the rights of the victims of the Mexican Drug War. At the Hemeroteca Nacional de México I…

  • Hiroyuki Shibata 

    During the summer 2014, I was able to conduct a seven weeks preliminary research in São Paulo, Brazil towards my dissertation project on the changing relationship that Brazilian Nikkeis – Japanese emigrants to Brazil and their descendants – have with Japan and Brazil over a longue durée. While my dissertation project will examine a longer…

  • Laura Carter

    “This summer, beginning June 4, 2013 I travelled to Paris, France and to Guadeloupe, French West Indies to conduct preliminary research for the long-term dissertation fieldwork that I will undertake next year. This summer’s research was crucial for the larger thesis project, Embodied & Inscribed—Gwoka : Guadeloupan Social Movement & Immaterial Heritage of France.  These two…

  • Mya Dosch

     “During my CLACLS-sponsored on-site research in summer 2013, I studied the architectural and artistic interventions made within two former detention centers infamous for holding political prisoners: Lecumberri Prison in Mexico City and the Escuela Mecánica de la Armada (ESMA) in Buenos Aires.  My research emphasized the ways in which certain historical narratives have been privileged…