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ULRICH OSLENDER, PH.D.

Assistant Professor of Geography Phone: (305) 348-2247

Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies Fax: (305) 348-3605

Florida International University uoslende@fiu.edu

Miami, FL 33199, USA

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA 2010 to present

Assistant Professor of Geography, Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies

University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK 2002-2010

Research Fellow, Department of Geographical & Earth Sciences:

Marie Curie International Research Fellow (EU-funded) 2005-2008

ESRC Research Fellow 2004-2005

ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2002-2003

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Geography 1997-2001

Black communities on the Colombian Pacific coast and the ‘aquatic space’: a spatial

approach to social movement theory

M.A., University of Glasgow, Joint Honours Geography-Hispanic Studies 1992-1997

First Class degree with distinctions in spoken Spanish and Portuguese

MAJOR AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS

FIU Summer Faculty Development Award, 2011 $6,900

Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship, 2005-2008

Supported within the 6th

European Community Framework Programme.

Department of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

UCLA Department of Geography, Los Angeles (2005-2007).

EUR

267,816

ESRC Research Grant (Ref. RES-000-22-0770), 2004-2005

Department of Geography, University of Glasgow.

£47,604

ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Ref. T026271170), 2002-2003

Department of Geography, University of Glasgow.

£26,848

PhD studentship, 1997-2000

Department of Geography, University of Glasgow.

Funded through the University’s Principal’s Strategic Development Fund.

£25,000

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PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Books:

Oslender, U. (2016). The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and

the Aquatic Space, Durham: Duke University Press. DUP catalog; Amazon

Reiter, B. & U. Oslender (Eds) 2015. Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Reflections from the

Frontlines of Collaborative Research, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.

MSUP catalog; Amazon

Oslender, U. 2011. Comunidades Negras y Espacio en el Pacífico Colombiano: Hacia un Giro

Geográfico en el Estudio de los Movimientos Sociales, Bogotá: Instituto Colombiano de

Antropología e Historia (2nd

ed), ISBN: 978-958-8181-49-3.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

Oslender, U. (2016). “The banality of displacement: discourse and thoughtlessness in the internal

refugee crisis in Colombia”, Political Geography 50, pp.10-19

Oslender, U. 2013. “De fracaso y frustración en el trabajo de campo: cómo asumir la ética de la

representación en la investigación participativa”, Tabula Rasa, Revista de Humanidades 19,

pp.355-371. click here

Ogden, L., N. Heynen, U. Oslender, P. West, K.A. Kassam & P. Robbins 2013. “Global

Assemblages, resilience, and earth stewardship in the Anthropocene”, Frontiers in Ecology

and the Environment 11(7), pp.341-347

Oslender, U. 2010. “La búsqueda de un contra-espacio: ¿hacia territorialidades alternativas o co-

optación por el poder dominante?”, Geopolítica(s): Revista de Estudios sobre Espacio y

Poder 1(1), pp.95-114 (Complutense University, Madrid). click here

Agnew, J., & U. Oslender. 2010. “Territorialidades superpuestas, soberanía en disputa:

lecciones empíricas desde América Latina”, Tabula Rasa, Revista de Humanidades 13

(Bogotá, Colombia), pp. 191-213. click here

Oslender, U. 2010. “La banalidad del desplazamiento: de peleas estadísticas y vacíos en la

representación étnica del desplazamiento forzado en Colombia”, Universitas Humanística 69,

pp.139-161 (Bogotá, Colombia).

Oslender, U. 2010. “À la recherche d’un contreespace: quelques leçons à tirer de l’expérience de

lutte des communautés noires en Colombie”, Conjonctures. Revue Québécoise d'Analyse et de

Débat (UQAM) 48/49, pp.102-133.

Oslender, U. 2009. “Colombia: old and new patterns of violence, accumulation and

dispossession”, in Leo Panitch & Colin Leys (eds), Socialist Register 2009: Violence today.

Actually existing barbarisms , pp.181-198.

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Oslender, U. 2008. “Another history of violence: the production of ‘geographies of terror’ in

Colombia’s Pacific coast region”, Latin American Perspectives 35(5), pp.77-102.

Oslender, U. 2008. “Geografías del terror: un marco de análisis para el estudio del terror”,

Scripta Nova: Revista electrónica de geografía y ciencias sociales, Universidad de Barcelona,

vol. XII, núm. 270 (144), 1 de agosto de 2008. click here

Oslender, U. 2007. “Re-visiting the hidden transcript: oral tradition and black cultural politics in

the Colombian Pacific coast region”, Environment & Planning D: Society & Space 25(6),

pp.1103-1129.

Oslender, U. 2007. “The resurfacing of the public intellectual: towards the proliferation of public

spaces of critical intervention”, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies

6(1), pp.98-123. click here

Oslender, U. 2007. “Violence in development: the logic of forced displacement on Colombia’s

Pacific coast”, Development in Practice 17(6), pp.752-764.

Oslender, U. 2007. “¿La resurrección del intelectual público? Nuevos espacios de intervención

pública y el intelectual colectivo”, Tabula Rasa, Revista de Humanidades 7 (Bogotá,

Colombia), pp.341-355. click here

Howard, D., M. Hume & U. Oslender. 2007. “Violence, fear, and development in Latin

America: a critical overview”, Development in Practice 17(6), pp.713-724.

Helms, G., J. Lossau & U. Oslender. 2005. “‘Einfach sprachlos’ but not simply speechless:

language(s), thought and practice in the social sciences”, Area 37(3), pp.242-250.

Oslender, U. 2005. “Globalizar la resistencia”, Esfera. Revista de la Universidad Distrital

Francisco José de Caldas 1(1) (Bogotá, Colombia), pp.29-35.

Oslender, U. 2005. “Tradición oral y memoria colectiva en el Pacífico colombiano: hacia la

construcción de una política cultural negra”, Guaraguao, Revista de Cultura Latinoamericana

9(20) (Barcelona, Spain), pp.74-104.

Oslender, U. 2004. “Fleshing out the geographies of social movements: Colombia’s Pacific coast

black communities and the aquatic space”, Political Geography 23(8), pp.957-985.

Oslender, U. 2004. “Construyendo contrapoderes a las nuevas guerras geo-económicas: caminos

hacia una globalización de la resistencia”, Tabula Rasa, Revista de Humanidades 2 (Bogotá,

Colombia), pp.59-78. click here

Oslender, U. 2003. “Discursos ocultos de resistencia: tradición oral y cultura política en

comunidades negras de la costa Pacífica colombiana”, Revista Colombiana de Antropología

39, pp.203-236.

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Oslender, U. 2002. “The logic of the river: a spatial approach to ethnic-territorial mobilization in

the Colombian Pacific region”, Journal of Latin American Anthropology 7(2), pp.86-117.

Oslender, U. 2002. “Espacio, lugar y movimientos sociales: hacia una ‘espacialidad de

resistencia’”, Scripta Nova: Revista electrónica de geografía y ciencias sociales, Universidad

de Barcelona, vol. VI, núm. 115, 1 de junio de 2002. click here

Oslender, U. 2002. “Communities in the crossfire: Afro-Colombians defend their territorial

rights on the Pacific coast”, Hemisphere 11 (Miami, FL: FIU), pp.24-27.

Book Chapters:

Ogden, L., N. Heynen, U. Oslender, P. West, K.A. Kassam, P. Robbins, F. Massardo & R.

Rozzi. 2015. “The politics of earth stewardship in the uneven Anthropocene”, in R. Rozzi,

F.S. Chapin, J.B. Callicott, S. Pickett, M. Power, J. Armesto & R.H. May (eds), Earth

stewardship: linking ecology and ethics in theory and practice, Springer International

Publishing, pp.137-157

Oslender, U. 2015. “Leaving the field: how to write about disappointment and frustration in

participatory action-research”, in B. Reiter & U. Oslender (eds), Bridging scholarship and

activism: reflections from the frontlines of collaborative research, East Lansing, MI:

Michigan State University Press, pp.63-74

Oslender, U. & B. Reiter 2015. “Introduction: bridging scholarship and activism”, in B. Reiter &

U. Oslender (eds), Bridging scholarship and activism: reflections from the frontlines of

collaborative research, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, pp.ix-xx

Oslender, U. & B. Reiter 2015. “Conclusions: bridging scholarship and activism”, in B. Reiter &

U. Oslender (eds), Bridging scholarship and activism: reflections from the frontlines of

collaborative research, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, pp.201-204

Agnew, J. & U. Oslender 2013. “Overlapping territorialities, sovereignty in dispute: empirical

lessons from Latin America”, in Walter Nicholls, Byron Miller & Justin Beaumont (eds),

Spaces of contention: spatialities and social movements, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.121-140.

Oslender, U. 2013. “Spaces of terror”, in Klaus Dodds, Merje Kuus & Joanne Sharp (eds), The

Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics, Farnham: Ashgate, pp.359-382

Oslender, U. 2012. “The quest for a counter-space in the Colombian Pacific coast region: toward

alternative black territorialities or co-optation by dominant power?”, in Jean Rahier (ed),

Black social movements in Latin America: from monocultural mestizaje to multiculturalism,

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.95-112.

Oslender, U. 2011. “La búsqueda por un contra-espacio: ¿Hacia territorialidades alternativas o

co-optación por el poder dominante?”, in C. Guerra, M. Pérez & C. Tapia (eds), El Territorio

como “demo”: demo(a)grafías, demo(a)cracias y epidemias, Sevilla (Spain): Universidad

Internacional de Andalucía, pp.142-163. book available here

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Oslender, U. 2009. “Anti-geopolitics”, in Rob Kitchin & Nigel Thrift (eds), International

Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, vol. 1, Oxford: Elsevier, pp.152-158.

Oslender, U. 2008. “Las políticas de etnicidad en América Latina: comunidades indígenas y

afrodescendientes como nuevos sujetos políticos y el desafío descolonial”, in Heriberto Cairo

& Walter Mignolo (eds), Las vertientes americanas del pensamiento y el proyecto des-

colonial: el resurgimiento de los pueblos indígenas y afrolatinos como sujetos políticos,

Madrid: Trama Editorial, pp.103-126.

Oslender, U. 2007. “Spaces of terror and fear on Colombia’s Pacific coast: the armed conflict

and forced displacement among black communities”, in Derek Gregory & Allan Pred (eds),

Violent geographies: fear, terror, and political violence, New York: Routledge, pp.111-132.

Oslender, U. 2007. “Contra el olvido: celebrando a los poetas inéditos y la recuperación de

memoria colectiva en el Pacífico colombiano”, in L. Ortiz (ed), ‘Chambacú, la historia la

escribes tú’: ensayos sobre cultura afrocolombiana, Madrid: Iberoamericana, pp.255-282.

Oslender, U. 2006. “Des-territorialización y desplazamiento forzado en el Pacífico colombiano:

la construcción de geografías de terror”, in Diego Herrera & Carlos Emilio Piazzini (eds),

(Des)territorialidades y (no)lugares: procesos de configuración y transformación social del

espacio, Medellín (Colombia): La Carreta Editores, pp.155-172.

Oslender, U. 2006. “Epílogo: Imaginarios geopolíticos contemporáneos post 11-S”, in H. Cairo

& J. Pastor (eds), Geopolítica, guerras y resistencias, Madrid: Trama Editorial, pp.237-247.

Oslender, U. 2004. “Geografías de terror y desplazamiento forzado en el Pacífico colombiano:

conceptualizando el problema y buscando respuestas”, in E. Restrepo & A. Rojas (eds),

Conflicto e (in)visibilidad: retos en los estudios de la gente negra en Colombia, Popayán

(Colombia): Universidad del Cauca, pp.35-52.

Oslender, U. 2001. “La lógica del río: estructuras espaciales del proceso organizativo de los

movimientos sociales de comunidades negras en el Pacífico colombiano”, in M. Pardo (ed),

Acción colectiva, Estado y etnicidad en el Pacífico colombiano, Bogotá (Colombia): Instituto

Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, Colciencias, pp.123-148.

Oslender, U. 2000. “Espacializando resistencia: perspectivas de ‘espacio’ y ‘lugar’ en las

investigaciones de movimientos sociales”, in E. Restrepo & M.V. Uribe (eds), Antropologías

transeúntes, Bogotá: ICANH, pp.191-221.

Oslender, U. 1999. “Espacio e identidad en el Pacífico colombiano”, in J. Camacho & E.

Restrepo (eds), De montes, ríos y ciudades: territorios e identidades de la gente negra en

Colombia, Bogotá: Fundación Natura, Ecofondo, ICANH, pp.25-48.

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Book Reviews:

Oslender, U. 2010. “Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a

Global Working Class”, by Aviva Chomsky (Duke University Press, 2008), Bulletin of Latin

American Research 29(4), pp.525-526.

Oslender, U. 2010. “Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific

Lowlands”, by Kiran Asher (Duke University Press, 2009), The Americas: A Quarterly

Review of Inter-American Cultural History 67(1), pp.143-144. [review quoted on DUP

website]

Oslender, U. 2010. “Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes”, by Arturo

Escobar (Duke University Press, 2008), American Ethnologist 37(1), pp.199-200. [review

quoted on DUP website]

Oslender, U. 2008. “Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State”, by Bettina

Ng’weno (Stanford University Press, 2007), Bulletin of Latin American Research 27(4),

pp.582-584.

Oslender, U. 2005. “Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics”, by Stephen

Graham, ed. (Blackwell, 2004), Geographische Revue 7(1/2), pp.134-140 (ISSN: 1438-3039).

Oslender, U. 2005. “My Cocaine Museum”, by Michael Taussig (University of Chicago Press,

2004), Guaraguao, Revista de Cultura Latinoamericana 20, pp.215-217. (ISSN: 1137-2354).

Oslender, U. 2005. “The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States”, by

David Maybury-Lewis, ed. (Harvard University Press, 2002), Political Geography 25,

pp.123-126.

Oslender, U. 2004. “Cutting the Wire: the Story of the Landless Movement in Brazil”, by Sue

Branford & Jan Rocha (Latin America Bureau, 2002), Antipode 36(2), pp.353-356.

Oslender, U. 2003. “Geopolítica, Identidad y Globalización”, by Joan Nogué Font & Joan

Vicente Rufí (Ariel, 2001), European Spatial Research and Policy 10(2), pp.144-147.

Oslender, U. 2002. “Music, Race, and Nation: Música Tropical in Colombia”, by Peter Wade

(University of Chicago Press, 2000), Guaraguao, Revista de Cultura Latinoamericana 15,

pp.213-216. (ISSN: 1137-2354).

Oslender, U. 2001. “El Final del Salvaje: Naturaleza, Cultura y Política en la Antropología

Contemporánea”, by Arturo Escobar (Bogotá: ICAN/CEREC, 1999) Guaraguao, Revista de

Cultura Latinoamericana 13, pp.167-172.

Oslender, U. 2000. “Open Veins of Latin America”, by Eduardo Galeano (Monthly Review

Press, 1997), Antipode 32(2), pp.203-206.

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PRESENTATIONS

Conference Presentations (Selection):

2016. “An aquatic space: relational ontology among black communities on Colombia’s Pacific

Coast and the pluriverse”. International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association

LASA; New York City, May 27-30.

2016. “Relational ontology and the aquatic space on Colombia’s Pacific Coast: towards

constructions of the pluriverse?”. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers

AAG, San Francisco, CA (panel: ‘The Agency of Place in a More-than-human World’); March

29-April 2.

2015. “Resilience, resistance and the quest for a counter-space in Colombia’s Pacific coast

region”. XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association LASA, San

Juan, Puerto Rico (panel: ‘Assessing resilience, development, and cultural politics in Latin

American and Caribbean contexts’); May 27-30.

2014. “Decoloniality and aquatic epistemologies on Colombia’s Pacific Coast: towards a critical

place perspective on social movements”. Annual Meeting of the Association of American

Geographers AAG, Tampa, FL (panel: ‘Navigating Routes of the Decolonial Option: Rooting

Decoloniality in Afro-descendant and Indigenous Forest/River Territories in Latin America’);

April 8-12.

2013. “The limits of inclusion: Afro-Colombian transformative visions to re-define the nation

under assault”. 7th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide

African Diaspora ASWAD; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (panel: ‘Transformative

visions, new narratives: the African Diaspora in (post)modernity’); October 30 - November 2.

2012. “Occupying and resisting in space: overlapping territorialities on the Colombian Pacific

Coast”. 19th

Annual Conference on Critical Geography, University of North Carolina UNC,

Chapel Hill, NC (panel: ‘Occupy what? And for whom?: examining liberatory and oppressive

geographies of occupation’); November 2-4.

2012. “Of navigating saints and aquatic epistemologies: social movements and the politics of

place in Colombia’s Pacific coast region”. Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG,

University of Edinburgh, UK; July 3-5.

2012. “Leaving the field: how to write about disappointment and frustration in participatory

action-research”. XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association LASA,

San Francisco (panel: ‘Bridging Activism and Scholarship?’); May 23-26.

2011. “Overlapping territorialities in Latin America: learning from Colombia’s social movement

of black communities”. Social Movement Governance, the Poor and the New Politics of the

Americas, University of South Florida, Tampa, February 2-4.

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2008. “Geografías del terror: un marco de análisis para el estudio del terror”. X Coloquio

Internacional de Geocrítica, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona; May 26-30.

2008. “The banality of forced displacement: terror, violence and regimes of representation in

Colombia”. 44th

Annual Conference of The Society for Latin American Studies SLAS, University

of Liverpool (panel: ‘The banality of violence in Latin America: old and new patterns of

violence, terror and fear’); March 28-30.

2007. “Geographies of terror and spaces of confinement: re-conceptualizing forced displacement

(with an anti-geopolitical eye on Colombia’s Pacific coast region)”. Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers AAG, San Francisco (panel: ‘Spaces of enclosure:

neoliberalism-modernity-violence’); April 17-21.

2006. “Resistencia al terror: política de escala en las comunidades negras de Colombia en contra

del desplazamiento forzado”. 52. International Congress of Americanists, Sevilla, Spain (panel:

‘Resistencia, alteridad y glocalización en América Latina’); July 17-21.

2006. “Resisting terror: black communities on Colombia’s Pacific coast against forced

displacement”. XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association LASA,

San Juan, Puerto Rico (panel: ‘Counter-hegemony, racism and violence in the Americas’);

March 15-18.

2005. “Spaces of violence and terror on Colombia’s Pacific coast: black communities and forced

displacement”. Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American Studies SLAS, University of

Derby (panel: ‘Dealing with violence and terror in Latin America’); April 8-10.

2004. “From collective land titles to ‘geographies of terror’: black communities on Colombia’s

Pacific coast and forced displacement”. Post War Violence and Conflict: Latin America in

Comparative Perspective, Institute of Latin American Studies ILAS, Foresight Centre,

University of Liverpool, September 9-10.

2003. “Towards a place perspective on social movements: the case of Colombia’s Pacific coast

black communities”. Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American Studies SLAS,

University of Manchester (panel: ‘Social movements in Latin America: experiences, problems,

and the potential for networking beyond state boundaries’); April 11-13.

2003. “Fleshing out the geographies of social movements: black communities on the Colombian

Pacific coast and the aquatic space”. Annual Meeting of the Association of American

Geographers AAG, New Orleans (panel: ‘Alternative geographical imaginations); March 5-8.

2002. “The return of the ‘primitive rebel’? Reflections on the Colombian conflict today”. Making

Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians and the Study of Social movements, Edge Hill

College of Higher Education, Ormskirk, England; June 26-28.

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2000. “The aquatic space of black communities in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia”.

Freshwater Management in Latin America, Centre for Latin American Research CLAR,

University of Glasgow, February 12.

1999. “Spatialities of resistance: social movements of black communities on the Colombian

Pacific coast”. Manchester ‘99. Visions and Voices, Department of Anthropology, University of

Manchester (panel: ‘Black populations, social movements and identity in Latin America’);

October 27-30.

Conference Sessions Organized and Chaired:

2015. “Assessing ‘resilience’, development, and cultural politics in Latin American and

Caribbean contexts” (with D. Howard). XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American

Studies Association LASA, San Juan, Puerto Rico; May 27-30.

2014. “Navigating Routes of the Decolonial Option: Rooting Decoloniality in Afro-descendant

and Indigenous Forest/River Territories in Latin America” (with J Hazelwood). Annual Meeting

of the Association of American Geographers AAG, Tampa, FL; April 8-12.

2013. “Transformative Visions, New Narratives: the African Diaspora in (Post)Modernity”. 7th

Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora

ASWAD, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; October 30 - November 2.

2012. “Occupy What? And for Whom?: Examining Liberatory and Oppressive Geographies of

Occupation” (with C Faria). 19th

Annual Conference on Critical Geography (‘The Near Future:

Volatility, Opportunity, and Critique’), University of North Carolina UNC, Chapel Hill;

November 2-4.

2008. “The Banality of Violence in Latin America: Old and New Patterns of Violence, Terror

and Fear” (with David Howard, University of Edinburgh, and Mo Hume, University of

Glasgow). 44th

Annual Conference of The Society for Latin American Studies SLAS, University

of Liverpool; March 28-30.

2006. “Resistencia, Alteridad y Glocalización en América Latina”. 52. International Congress of

Americanists, Sevilla, Spain, July 17-21.

2005. “Dealing with Violence and Terror in Latin America”. Annual Conference of the Society

for Latin American Studies SLAS, University of Derby; April 8-10.

2003. “Social Movements in Latin America: Experiences, Problems, and the Potential for

Networking Beyond State Boundaries”. Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American

Studies SLAS, University of Manchester; April 11-13.

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Invited Presentations (selection):

2016. “Beyond race: cultural politics and relational ontology among black communities on

Colombia’s Pacific Coast”. Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean ISLAC,

University of South Florida USF, Tampa (workshop on “Race, ethnicity and cultural politics in

Colombia”); February 11.

2014. “Afro‐Colombia under assault: discursive inclusion and real life exclusion”. Department of

Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; April 3.

2012. “Bloody palms: oil palm cultivation and forced displacement in Colombia’s Pacific coast

region”. York-Workshop on Environmentally-Induced Displacement, York University, Toronto;

May 4-5.

2012. “Terror y geografía: examinando los múltiples espacios de terror”. Public lecture. Instituto

de Estudios Regionales INER, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín (Colombia), April 12.

2012. “La geopolítica crítica como metodología de investigación”. Workshop conducted with

students of the graduate program “Master in Socio-Spatial Studies”, Instituto de Estudios

Regionales INER, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín (Colombia), April 12.

2012. “Anti-geopolítica y geopolítica feminista: nuevas herramientas de la geografía crítica”.

Workshop conducted with faculty and students of the research group “Grupo de Estudios

Territoriales”, Instituto de Estudios Regionales INER, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín

(Colombia), April 13.

2011. “Of navigating saints and aquatic epistemologies: social movements and the politics of

place in Colombia’s Pacific coast region”. UNC-Chapel Hill Anthropology Colloquium Series;

November 14.

2011. “A mi río no lo olvido (I won’t forget my river): ‘place’ and social movement theory on

Colombia’s Pacific coast”. The Tod Spieker Colloquium Series, UCLA Department of

Geography, University of California, Los Angeles; October 28.

2011. “The geographies of social movements: black communities in Colombia and the aquatic

space”. UNC-Chapel Hill Geography Colloquium Series; October 7.

2011. “Geographies of terror and the quest for a counter-space in the Colombian Pacific coast

region”. UNC Workshop on Culture, Ecology and Politics, University of Northern Carolina -

Chapel Hill; March 25-27.

2011. “The quest for a counter-space in the Colombian Pacific coast region: towards alternative

black territorialities or cooptation by dominant power?”. Afro Latino Social Movements: from

‘monocultural mestizaje’ and ‘invisibility’ to multiculturalism and State corporatism/cooptation,

Florida International University (AADS), Miami; February 24-25.

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2010. “Geographies of terror: a framework (with an anti-geopolitical eye on Colombia’s Pacific

coast region)”. Global & Sociocultural Studies Graduate Colloquium Series, Florida

International University, Miami; October 15.

2009. “La búsqueda por un contra-espacio: ¿Hacia territorialidades alternativas o co-optación por

el poder dominante?”. 2º Congreso Internacional de Estudios Socioespaciales: El territorio

como “demo”: demo(a)grafías, demo(a)cracias, y epi-demias, Universidad Internacional de

Andalucía, Sede la Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain; November 11-13.

2009. “Afro-Colombian communities and Space in the Colombian Pacific”. Latin American and

Caribbean Center / African & African Diaspora Studies Program, Florida International

University FIU, Miami; January 21.

2007. “Violent development: terror and forced displacement among Colombia's Pacific

coast black communities”. UCLA Latin American Institute, University of California, Los

Angeles; December 5.

2006. “Geographies of terror: a framework”. The Tod Spieker Colloquium Series, UCLA

Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles; November 17.

2006. “Confronting terror and fear on Colombia's Pacific coast: forced displacement and

resistance among black communities”. Latin American Studies Initiative, University of Southern

California USC, Los Angeles; October 25.

2006. “Las políticas de etnicidad en América Latina: comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes

como nuevos sujetos políticos”. Curso de Verano: El Pensamiento Des-colonial y el Surgimiento

de los Indígenas como Nuevo Sujeto Político en América Latina, El Escorial, Spain; July 24-28

(invitation financed by Complutense University, Madrid).

2006. “Oral tradition as resistance: re-visiting Scott’s hidden transcripts”. Political Geography

Seminar, UCLA Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles; April 24.

2006. “Cultural politics and ethnicity in Latin America”. Student Association for Latin American

Studies SALAS, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles; February 14.

2005. “Spaces of terror and fear: Colombia’s black communities in the crossfire”. Cultural

Geography Methods Workshop, UCLA Department of Geography, University of California, Los

Angeles; December 12.

2005. “Navigating the ‘aquatic space’: an audio-visual journey among black communities on the

Colombian Pacific coast”. Geographical Society JOGSOK (multi-media presentation),

Department of Geography & Geomatics, University of Glasgow; February 15.

2004. “Des-territorialización y desplazamiento forzado en el Pacífico colombiano: la

construcción de geografías de terror”. (Des)territorialidades y (no)lugares: procesos de

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configuración y transformación social del espacio, Instituto de Estudios Regionales INER,

Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; November 4-6.

2004. “Geografías de terror y desplazamiento forzado en el Pacífico colombiano:

conceptualizando el problema y buscando respuestas”. Segundo Coloquio Nacional de Estudios

Afrocolombianos, Popayán, Colombia; March 18-20. (visit to Colombia financed by the

International Organization for Migration).

2004. “Comunidades negras y desplazamiento forzado: respuestas desde la sociedad civil”. X

Feria del Libro Pacífico Colombiano, Cali, Colombia; March, 15-16.

2003. “La necesidad de globalizar la resistencia: confrontando a las nuevas guerras geo-

económicas”. World Social Thematic Forum: Democracy, Human Rights, Wars and Drug

Trafficking, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia; June 16-20.

2003. “Espacio y resistencia”. Universidad del Pacífico (3 workshops and one public lecture),

Buenaventura, Colombia; March 19-21.

2002. “Re-visiting the ‘primitive rebel’: Eric Hobsbawm and the escalating conflict in

Colombia”. Research Seminar Series, Department of Geography, University of Glasgow;

November 8.

2000. “Aspectos espaciales y mediación del Estado y capital en el movimiento social de

comunidades negras en el Pacícico colombiano”. IX International Congress of Anthropology,

Popayán, Colombia (panel: ‘Movimientos sociales, etnicidad y estado’); July 19-22.

TEACHING

Courses taught at Florida International University (2010-present):

GEA 2000 World Regional Geography

GEO 3471 Political Geography

ANG 6339 Graduate Seminar: Seminar on Latin America

GEO 6478 Graduate Seminar: Critical Geopolitics

GEO 6409 Graduate Seminar: Landscapes of Violence and Healing

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Florida International University (2010-present):

Academic Job Search and Screen Committee Member

Fall 2010, Assistant Anthropologist, GSS.

Fall 2014, Assistant/Associate Anthropologist/Geographer, GSS.

Fall 2015, Assistant Professor in Geography, GSS (Chair)

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GSS Faculty Evaluation & Merit Distribution Committee Member

Spring 2012 to present

SERVICE TO PROFESSION

Book Manuscript and Prospectus Reviews

2008 National Geographic, Countries of the World:Colombia (ISBN:978-1-4263-0257-2)

2014 Rowman & Littlefield (prospectus)

2015 Manchester University Press (book proposal)

Membership

Founding Member

RESE (Red de Estudios Socioespaciales – Network of Sociospatial Studies); a

collaborative research initiative based at the University of Antioquia in Medellín,

Colombia; since 2007.

GAIDEPAC (Grupo de Académicos e Intelectuales en Defensa del Pacífico – Group of

Academics and Intellectuals in Defense of the Colombian Pacific region); since 2010.

Editorial Board Member

Tabula Rasa: Revista de Humanidades, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca,

Bogotá (click here) (ISSN: 1794-2489); since 2003.

International Advisory Board Member

Guaraguao: Revista de Cultura Latinoamericana, Barcelona (click here) (ISSN: 1137-

2354); since 2000.

Geopolítica(s): Revista de Estudios sobre Espacio y Poder, Universidad Complutense de

Madrid (click here) (ISSN: 2172-3958); since 2010.

Scientific Committee Member

Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades, Bogotá, Colombia; since 2010.

Revista de Estudios del Pacífico Colombiano, Instituto de Estudios del Pacífico,

Fundación Universitaria Claretiana, Quibdó (Chocó, Colombia) (ISSN: 2323-0878);

since 2012.