Open seminar with Elsa Son, Vice-Minister of Culture, Guatemala, organized in collaboration between the Guatemalan Embassy in Norway and NorLARNet

Vice-Minister Elsa Son will talk about the achievements and challenges for increased participation of indigenous peoples in democratic processes in Latin America with a special focus on Guatemala.

Date: Tuesday 21st April; 09:00 - 11:00
Place: Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo
Registration: Please register by sending an e-mail to norlarnet@sum.uio.no no later than Wednesday 15th of April. Please indicate whether you speak Spanish. The seminar will be in Spanish, but translation service will be organized if necessary.

Previous NorLARNet activities

Norlarnet is in the process of generating a list of Norwegian research institutions working on topics related to Latin America. We have made a preliminary list that is available in the Research in Norway section of our webpage. We invite all Norway based researchers to check the list and to inform us if any relevant research institution is missing (e-mail to norlarnet@sum.uio.no). You can also access the list here.

This volume, The Ulwa People - Identity and Environment in a Multiethnic Context, is dedicated to the Ulwa people, one of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. More information about the book here.

This book by Christian Krohn-Hansen published in December 2008 investigates new ways of analyzing political authoritarianism using the case of the twentieth-century Dominican southwest. More information about the book here.

This book by Turid Hagene published in 2008, investigates from an interdisciplinary perspective a textile cooperative in Nicaragua during the period 1983-2000. Hagene studies the cooperative as a part of the Nicaraguan history after the sandinist revolution, focussing on the meaning of different forms of cooperatives. More information about the book here (in Spanish).

This book by Turid Hagene published in 2008, explores the issue of love and its place in the reproduction of gender asymmetry in Nicaragua. The theme is discussed in the context of specific religious and work practices, living arrangements, gender values and norms, and the gender practices and legislation of the Sandinista revolution. More information about the book here (in English).

Mario Ramirez Orozco, Associate Professor at Telemark University College, has published several acticles on Latin-American politics and literature available at the Red Académica electrónica del Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias sociales (RAEC-CLACSO). Access his publications here (in Spanish).

Do you want to make your published work known to other researchers? Contact the Norlarnet administration at norlarnet@sum.uio.no

See also the Publications page for recent publications about Latin America research

Korte analyser av aktuelle temaer fra Latin-Amerika / NorLARNet has terminated the daily news updates from Latin America. Instead we will publish regular brief analyses of topics of current interest in the region with links to sources for further information.

Previous financial crises have led to dramatically reduced economic growth and increased poverty in Latin America, and there is a great fear that this crisis may be even worse. But what distinguishes this crisis from previous ones is that the Latin-American governments themselves quickly have responded with measures to meet the crisis. Many things have happened since the Asia crisis in Latin-America.
På norsk her. In English here.

NorLARNet news archive

Latin American Newslinks.

Anne Karin Sæther comments the Norwegian media's limited, and often negative and stereotypical, coverage of Latin America, asking if the journalists are pre-programmed to prioritize the way they do. Read more
here.

Benedicte Bull comments on the contradictions arising from the VI round of negotiations for an Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union that took place in Brussels last week. Read more
here.

NorLARnet comments: archive

Elin Cecilie Ranum's research on youth gangs in Central America, the socalled "maras", shows that the way the state apparatus has handled the gang problem has led to an increase in violence and negative consequences for the trust in state institutions and support for democracy. Read more.

In his PhD research Håvard Haarstad shows that not even Evo Morales has been able to counter the negative effect of global economic forces on the influence of labor unions. Read more.

Featured research projects: Archive

Cand. Polit. Eirik Vold, who is writing book on Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, criticizes the coverage in Norwegian newspapers of the referendum in Venezuela February 15th.

Read the commentary in Dagbladet (25.02) here (in Norwegian)

Benedicte Bull, director of NorLARNet, and Wenche Hauge, senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), criticize the use of terms like "dictatorship" and "brainwashing" in an editorial in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten on Venezuela.

Read the commentary in Aftenposten (20.02) here (in Norwegian)

Please inform Norlarnet if you wish to publish a comment about Latin America, previously published in other Norwegian media