CENTRE for LATIN AMERICAN
RESEARCH and DOCUMENTATION
CENTRE for LATIN AMERICAN
RESEARCH and DOCUMENTATION
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CENTRE for LATIN AMERICAN
RESEARCH and DOCUMENTATION
CEDLA LECTURES
We’ll be back in September with a fresh series of CEDLA Lectures for 2025–2026
The CEDLA Lectures 2025–2026 will return this September with a new line-up of talks on Latin America. Featuring fresh perspectives and critical insights from leading researchers, these monthly lectures are a space to reflect, learn, and debate key issues shaping the region today. Full programme coming soon – stay tuned!
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The CEDLA Lectures 2025–2026 will return this September with a new line-up of talks on Latin America. Featuring fresh perspectives and critical insights from leading researchers, these monthly lectures are a space to reflect, learn, and debate key issues shaping the region today. Full programme coming soon – stay tuned!
Gender, class and ethnic relations in Latin America are being reshuffled and rapidly changing in the context of globalization, social transformations and political turmoil. The women’s movement received a new impetus as millions of women took to the streets to protest gendered violence.
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How have post-colonial states responded to racial justice movements, and to what extent have these responses addressed structural inequalities or reinforced exclusion? What forms of resistance have racialised communities developed to challenge racial hierarchies and defend their collective rights?
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Primarily focusing on the Global South context, students will become acquainted with the core concepts of environmental and climate justice, rooted in distributional, recognition, and participation struggles faced by marginalised rural communities and urban underprivileged populations. Debates on environmental and climate justice will be intricately linked to broader themes of social justice, violence, and the intersectionality of ethnicity, gender, and class.
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Latin American politics is marked by sharp ideological shifts, outspoken political discourse, and dramatic regime changes. Beneath the surface, persistent issues like clientelism, corruption, weak institutions, and fragile citizenship continue to shape political dynamics, making the region both complex and fascinating to study. Regime shifts also seem to have been more extreme than in other parts of the world, as in the case of e.g. neoliberalism and the recent shifts from the (far) left to the (far) right, and back. MORE INFORMATION
Last week, our CEDLA colleagues Christien Klaufus (PI of NWO-funded project Contesting Urban Borderscapes in Latin America) and Isabelle Mollinger (PhD candidate in this project), together with community leaders Alicia Avilés and Orlando Bonilla, hosted a three-day workshop Tejiendo Infraestructuras Sociales y Vitales en La Carpio – an academic-community initiative exploring the often invisible infrastructures that sustain life in the neighborhood.
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This course critically examines key challenges and struggles shaping the development landscape in Latin America today. Moving beyond simplistic or technocratic models, we explore development as a deeply political and contested process, shaped by competing worldviews, historical inequalities, and resistance from below.
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The term popular culture is nineteenth-century and was used to discuss — or in fact: dismiss — non-elite culture. A key issue in the discussions has been the (re)production of narratives of who people are and what they want to be, thereby acknowledging that their 'being-in-the-world' is defined by heritage and histories of a birth place, hometown, ancestors, lifestyles, violence or journeys. In people’s testimonies over time, new elements are woven into existing storyworlds, creating innovative ways of worldmaking. MORE INFORMATION
Introduction to Latin American Studies
Explore key debates and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary Latin American Studies. This course examines crisis as both a challenge and a catalyst for change, offering new perspectives on conflict, resistance, and social transformation across the region. Grounded in current CEDLA research and weekly readings, it equips students with critical tools to understand Latin America today.
Bachelor, Master and PhD
CEDLA has promoted Latin American Studies in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond. We do this by conducting and stimulating relevant and original research on developments in Latin America and distributing the results of this research internationally via academic education at BA, MA and PhD levels.
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Investigating governance through b/ordering processes in self-help neighbourhoods
New research project exploring the impact of migration on self-built neighbourhoods in Latin America, with case studies in Moravia, Medellín (Colombia) and La Carpio, San José (Costa Rica).