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Cesar Augusto Coca
The CLACS scholarship allowed me to know several archives of the city of Buenos Aires that were linked to the relations between literature and politics in Latin America. Because in my research proposal I study the figure of the intellectual, I found the materials of the 60s to be particularly valuable. For this purpose, I…
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Viktor Bensus
My research focuses on urban politics in Lima, Peru. In particular, I am interested in how state and civil society actors engage in contentious politics through invited(e.g., participatory mechanisms)and invented spaces (e.g., grassroots and community organizations) at the local scale. Due to COVID-19 related flying restrictions and precautions, I was not able to conduct the…
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Sara Cordón
My academic research focuses on examining how neoliberal market dynamics and the many possibilities of mass and social media favor the exhibition of the biographies and bodies of literary authors. My dissertation analyzes the commodification and manipulation of the contemporary authorial figure, as well as the possibilities of agency that certain writers have been able…
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Marco Castillo
The CLACLS Travel Fellowship allowed me to cover transportation to and from Asuncion, Paraguay to carry out data recollection and exploratory research during the summer months of 2019. I could retrieve databases related to demographic indicators, census databases, and of carceral population. I additionally carried out exploratory archival research at the Paraguayan Supreme Court’s Human…
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Stephanie Lou George
Within Guyanese racial and religious discourses, Madrasis are a minority of the South Asian population who embarked for the New World, or British Guiana, between 1838 and 1917 via the southern port of the Madras Presidency of the British Empire as sugar plantation laborers. Particular sonic practices have become emblematic of Madrasi religious and racial…
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