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International
Graduate Student Research Conference
on
Latin America and the Caribbean:
Creative
and Critical Perspectives
11
& 12 March 2011
5th & 6th floors, York Research Tower
York University, Toronto,
Canada
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Fri, Mar 11 ▪ 9:15am-11:00am ▪ Panel 1 ▪ Track A ▪ 519 YRT
Race, Identity & Politics in the Americas
Discussant: Andrea Davis, Humanities, York
Mestizaje: Myth or Reality in Contemporary Cuban Nationalism
Tanita Muneshwar, PhD Humanities, York
Una aproximación comparativa entre el pensamiento africano del "Ubuntu" y el pensamiento "nuestroamericano". Su relevancia en la lucha de los/las afrodescendientes
Jean-Bosco Kakozi Kashindi, PhD, Latin American Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Nicki Minaj's Dress As Redress
Naila Keleta Mae, PhD Theatre Studies, York
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Fri, Mar 11 ▪ 9:15am-11:00am ▪ Panel 1 ▪ Track B ▪ 554 YRT
Media, the Arts & Representation
Discussant: Michelle Mohabeer, Humanities, York
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Media, and Indigenous Interests in the Amazon
Jeremy John Escobar Torio, MA Geography, University of Calgary
Indigenous Audiovisual Production in Brazil: The Politics of Identity
Marta Castilho da Silva, PhD Anthropology, York
Violence and Virtuality; Representing the colonial wound in Video/Media Art
Maria Alejandrina Coates, MA Art History, York
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Fri, Mar 11 ▪ 11:15am-1:00pm ▪ Panel 2 ▪ Track A ▪ 519 YRT
Political & Economic Alternatives in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Discussant: Simone Bohn, Political Science, York
Alienation and Transformation: Alter-capitalist workplaces and their effect on workers in Venezuela's Popular Economy
Christine Mettler, MES (Environmental Studies), York
Praxis, Learning, and New Cooperativism in Venezuela: The Case of Socialist Production Units
Manuel Larrabure, PhD Political Science, York
Where "I" stops and "we" Begins, and Vice-Versa: the Intersection of Liberal and Participatory Democracy in Venezuela under Hugo Chavez
Donovan Ritch, MA Development Studies, York
Embracing strangeness: Venezuela and the politics of solidarity
Guy R. Emerson, PhD International Relations, Australian National University
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Fri, Mar 11 ▪ 11:15am-1:00pm ▪ Panel 2 ▪ Track B ▪ 554 YRT
North-South Encounters
Discussant: Alan Simmons, Sociology, York
Between Sexuality and Social Justice: The Ideological Debate about Womanhood in the International Woman's Year Conference
Pamela Fuentes, PhD History, York
A right or a gift: a discussion on structural violence and Brazilian migrants in Ireland
Diana Gouveia, PhD Anthropology, National University of Ireland
Voluntourism: Effective development tool or feel good travel?
Camaro West, MA, International Development Studies, Saint Mary's
Peter and the Wolf: Canada's New Best Friend in post-coup Honduras
Tyler Shipley, PhD, Political Science, York
Tides of Revolution: Cuba and Québec
Zo Nissen, MA History, Trent
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Fri, Mar 11 ▪ 2:00pm-3:45pm ▪ Panel 3 ▪ Track A ▪ 519 YRT
Extractives
Discussant: David Szablowski, Law & Society, York
Protection for Whom? Environmental Regulation in the Peruvian Extractive Sector
Jennifer Mills, MA Development Studies, York
Articulations of the law and citizenship rights in indigenous mobilization against large-scale mining in Southeastern Ecuador
Catalina Ponce de Leon, MA Development Studies, York
Water management in mining watersheds. Limitations from the perspective of environmental sustainability and social equity in Porcón Watershed, Cajamarca (Peru)
Patricia Rojas Caro, MA Sustainability, Technical University of Catalonia
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Fri, Mar 11 ▪ 2:00pm-3:45pm ▪ Panel 3 ▪ Track B ▪ 554 YRT
Law & Rights
Discussant: Shin Imai, Osgoode Hall Law School, York
Beyond a Culture of Impunity: Achieving Peace through Justice by Repealing El Salvador's Amnesty Law
Rolando Aguilera, JD Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York
Impunity, Foreign Investment and the Privatization of Coercion in Peru: A Case Study of the Forza Security Company
Charis Kamphuis, PhD Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York
American Convention on Human Rights Articles 46(1) and 46(2): Achilles Heel or Trojan Horse?
Ajit Singh, JD Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Fri, Mar 11 ▪ 4:00pm-5:45pm ▪ Panel 4 ▪ Track A ▪ 519 YRT
Intersectional Readings of Power Relations
Discussant: Antonio Torres-Ruiz, Equity Studies, York; Latin American Studies Program, University of Toronto
Exploring the tension between Gender, Race and Political Participation in Chile: An analysis of the leadership stories and identities of Mapuche women
Jocelyn Kelln, MA Communications and Culture, University of Calgary
Understanding Power: Neoliberalism, Migration and the Law in the Dominican Republic
Melisa Breton, PhD Political Science, York
"Intersectionality" as Political Strategy: a Comparison Between LGTBQ and Feminist Movements in Uruguay (and Some Theoretical Reflections on Queer Politics)
Paulo Ravecca, PhD Political Science, York
The Indian Act in the Age of (Neo)-Imperialism: Spanish Colonial Thinking and its Influence on the American and Canadian States
Carmen Sanchez, PhD Political Science, York
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Fri, Mar 11 ▪ 4:00pm-5:45pm ▪ Panel 4 ▪ Track B ▪ 554 YRT
Sound & Identity
Discussant: Michael Marcuzzi, Music, York
Traditional Drumming of the Cayman Islands
Paulo Ormandy, PhD Music, York
Music in Movement – Corridistas in Rural Buses in Southern Mexico
Sven Kirschlager, Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Exploring Brazilian Aural History
Katherine MacDonald, PhD Geography, York
Transformation of Garifuna Music From Folk to World Music
Peitra Arana, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Sat, Mar 12 ▪ 9:00am-10:45am ▪ Panel 5 ▪ Track A ▪ 519 YRT
Neoliberalism & Its Responses
Discussant: TBD
Counter-Revolution or Capitalist Revolution From Above? Rethinking the Neoliberal Dictatorship in Chile
Timothy David Clark, PhD Political Science, York
Post-Neoliberal Alternative: Exploring New Left Government Responses to Neoliberalism in Latin America
Kristin Ciupa, MA sociology, York
The Market within the Movement: Neoliberalism and the Struggle for Land in Guatemala
Simon Granovsky-Larsen, PhD Political Science, York
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Sat, Mar 12 ▪ 9:00am-10:45am ▪ Panel 5 ▪ Track B ▪ 554 YRT
Migration & Diaspora
Discussant: Michele Johnson, History, York
Informal Lending and Risk Assessment in the Mendoza Wine Industry, 1884-1914
Uttam Bajwa, PhD History, Johns Hopkins
Providing Welfare for the Nation: The German Hospital and Community in Buenos Aires, 1878-1930
Benjamin Bryce, PhD History, York
Laboring under Misapprehension: Freedom on Hold in Post-Slavery Barbados
Caree Banton, PhD History, Vanderbilt
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Sat, Mar 12 ▪11:00am-12:45pm ▪ Panel 6 ▪ Track A ▪ 519 YRT
Indigenous Rights - CANCELLED
Sat, Mar 12 ▪ 11:00am-12:45pm ▪ Panel 6 ▪ Track B ▪ 554 YRT
International Watersheds in the Americas
Discussant: Ellie Perkins, Environmental Studies, York
Dams and hydro-power in the international river-basins of the Mexico-Guatemalan border: in the heart of sixty years of Geopolitics and Geostrategy
Ariane de Palacio, PhD Geography, Laval
Spatial conflicts linked to water management: the case of Argentina
Luis del Romero, PhD Geography, Laval
Conflicts and cooperation within the international river basins in Central America
Jérôme Gandin, PhD Geography, Laval
Towards a new mode of governance for managing common pool-resource: Linking political and environmental concerns
Lylia Khennache, PhD, Water Management, McGill
The Rio Grande/Bravo watershed: what are the water quantity sharing challenges?
Luzma Nava Jimenez, PhD International Studies, Laval
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Sat, Mar 12 ▪ 2:00pm-3:45pm ▪ Panel 7 ▪ Track A ▪ 519 YRT
People, Nature & Development
Discussant: Anna Zalik, Environmental Studies, York
International Development and the Clean Development Mechanism - Case Study: the Plantar Project in Brazil
Ewa Modlinska, MES (Environmental Studies), York
Climate Change Adaptation as a Development Issue: Exploring the New Challenges for Aid Development Organizations
Luz Maria Vazquez Garcia, PhD Sociology ,York
Practising and Performing Tourism Natures in the Nature Island of the Caribbean
Therese N Yarde, PhD Geography, Edinburgh
'Concrete Engagements' and Gendered Voices: Sustainable Agriculture Development in the Bolivian Andes
Jenny Cockburn, PhD Antropology, Sociology, & Criminology, Windsor
REDD and the Indigenous Question: A Case Study from Ecuador
Pablo Reed, MEM, Social Ecology & Policy Science, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Sat, Mar 12 ▪ 2:00pm-3:45pm ▪ Panel 7 ▪ Track B ▪ 554 YRT
Participation
Discussant: Eduardo Canel, Social Science & International Development Studies, York
Maya consultas and socially responsible investing: A case study examining perspectives on the indigenous right to free, prior and informed consent
JP Laplante, MA Geography, U of Northern B.C.
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Sat, Mar 12 ▪ 4:00pm-5:45pm ▪ Panel 8 ▪ Track A ▪ 519 YRT
Restructuración Global, Instituciones y Sector Agroalimentario
Discussant: Ricardo Grinspun, Economics, York
La agroecología en América Latina: Transformación del sistema agroalimentario desde abajo y desde adentro
Tania Hernandez Cervantes , PhD Environmental Studies, York
La trampa del atraso: lecciones del sector agroalimentario de Latinoamérica
Seyka Verónica Sandoval Cabrera, PhD Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
ABSTRACTS FOR THIS PANEL
Sat, Mar 12 ▪ 4:00pm-5:45pm ▪ Panel 8 ▪ Track B ▪ 554 YRT
Sexuality & Representations
Discussant: Anne Rubenstein, History, York
The Devil Walks Amongst Us: narratives of desiring and manipulative women in early 20th century Buenos Aires
Tara Ostiguy, MA History, York
"Nothing but Onions and Peppermint": Black Women's Bodies, Landscape, and Music in Two Works of Gayl Jones and Luz Argentina Chiriboga
Tiffany Austin, PhD English, St. Louis
Communicative Violence: Colombian Illegal Armed Groups and Homophobia
William Payne, PhD Geography, York
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CO-SPONSORS
CERLAC GRATEFULLY
ACKNOWLEDGES THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF:
The Department of Anthropology
The Department of History
The Department of Political Science
The Division of Social Science
The Faculty of Environmental Studies
The Faculty of Graduate Studies
ALL THE ABOVE @ YORK UNIVERSITY
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