The center for latin american & caribbean studies at indiana university presents
ACCESS & CONTROL
resources and technology in the global south 5TH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE march 3rd-5th, 2016
table of contents 1 About CLACS 2. Opening Address -“Drones, Dams & Uneven Development: Historical and Emerging Techno-geographies of the Global South” 3. Friday Programming 4. Keynote Address: “Food Systems & Sovereignty in the Caribbean: Exploring New Geographies of Uneven Development” 5. Saturday Programming 6. Discussant and Participant List
about CLACS The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) was founded in 1963 (originally as the Latin American Studies Program) as an umbrella organization uniting Latin Americanists from all campuses of Indiana University (IU). CLACS, as part of the School of Global and International Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU, is a pivotal site for research, instruction, and outreach focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. CLACS also sponsors a wide range of lectures, conferences, and events highlighting aspects of the region’s cultures, societies, and languages in addition to providing information on Latin American and the Caribbean to local, regional, and national constituencies. CLACS provides interdisciplinary academic programs in Latin American and Caribbean Studies to students preparing for careers in research, teaching, or management in public, private, or nonprofit sectors. CLACS offers an undergraduate minor and area certificate, a Master’s degree, three-year Dual Master’s Degree programs (Business Administration, Library Science, Information Science, Law, Public Health, and Public Affairs) and a doctoral minor and certificate. 1
The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies presents Opening Remarks for Access & Control: Resources and Technology in the Global South (5th Annual CLACS Graduate Student Conference)
Drones, Dams, & Uneven Development Historical and Emerging Techno-geographies of the Global South
Majed Akhter
Indiana U University niverssity D Department epartmeent of Geography This talk critically ally engages the use of sp spatial patial metaphor metaphors rs byy synthesizing insigh insights from ongoing research emerging geographies drones and dams h on the historical and emer rging political geo ographies of drone in Pakistan. It offers two conceptss tthat enable hat e nable the systematicc iinterrogation nterrogation of the spatial conditions and artifacts and infrastructures ass one wa way to begin d effects of technological a rtifacts a nd inf frastrructure es a explaining the relations. Speci e inter-scalar complexity of sspatial patia al relatio ons. S pecically, cally, it argues argu that the Gramscian concept and concept cept of “passive revolution” a nd tthe he ““technozone” technozone” co oncept from the eld of Science and nd Technology Studies (STS) have have helped helped him him avoid avoid certain certain traps trap while remaining attentive tentive to the role of the state in tthe he production of g global lobal inequ inequality in the capitalist world system. Moreover, it argues thatt these concep concepts pts enable what V Vijay Prashad has called the project of the “Third World”- which whiich includes m making aking comparison comparisons, structural connections, nnections, and solidarities between betwe een regions regio ons of of the Global South. South
GA 2 2067 067 7 Thursday, Ma March arch h 3rd, 5pm SPONSORED BY
The Dhar India Studies Program, IU Food Institute, Center for the Study of Global Change, IU Department of History, IU African Studies Program, IU Department of Geography, IUSA 2
FRIDAY, MARCH 4TH
All panels will take place in the Global & International Studies Building - Room 1134
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST - 8:30 AM Global & International Studies Building - Atrium 9:30 10:55 AM
RURAL TECHNOLOGY, RURAL RESOURCES
Jessamyn Bowling (Indiana University) - A Web to Survive: Sexual Minority Women in Mumbai’s Social Support and Use of the Internet to Form Identity Diego Mauricio Cortes (UC San Diego) - Indigenous Radio Stations & Inclusion in Cauca, Colombia Poonam Jusrut (University of Illinois) - Technical Monopoly as a Tool for Controlling Access to Forest Resources in Rural Senegal
DISCUSSANT: DR. LESSIE JO FRAZIER
ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE
Jordan Reifsteck (Indiana University) - Exploring Alternative Avenues for Research & Knowledge
aGeneration in the Postmodern Academy
11:10Andressa Vianna Mansur (University of Cadiz) - Urban Constraints on Sustainability in the 12:20 PM aAmazon Delta Alba Fernández Fernández (Western Michigan University) - También La Lluvia: Historia de la aGuerra por el Accesso al Agua en Bolivia
DISCUSSANT: DR. EDUARDO BRONDIZIO
LUNCH: 12:30PM GA1050
2:003:25 PM
GLOBAL SOUTH, TEXTUALLY
Miguel Nunez (San Diego State) - Excan Tlatoloyan (Triple Alliance): Con-Text-ualizing and aTranslating the Ancient Mexica(n) Azteca State Sunyoung Kim (Purdue University) - La Tecnologia y La Identidad en Suenos Digitales Sierra Funk (Indiana University) - They Should Call This Place ‘Chel Dorado’: Indigeneity on the aAnimated Screen Débora Maria Borba (Purdue University) - Identidades Fragmentadas, Vacíos y Ausenscias en La aMultitud Errante, de Laura Restrepo
DISCUSSANT: DR. QUETZIL CASTAÑEDA 3:40 5:05 PM
POLICING & SURVEILLANCE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Marc L. Antone (Indiana University) - If Looks Could Kill: State Surveillance, Archive, & aPhotographic Performance in Guatemala’s Counterinsurgency Nicholas Greven (Indiana University) - Jailing the Revolution: Black Insurgency & Mass aIncarceration as Counter Insurgency Sarah Foss (Indiana University) - Nourishing the Modern Indian: Transnational Nutrition aProjects in Post WWII Guatemala Kara Andrade (American University) - Over-The-Top Messaging Services & Privacy in aLatin America
DISCUSSANT: DR. MICHELLE MOYD
KEYNOTE SPEECH: 5:30 PM GA 0001
Reception & Presentation of the Martins-Sadlier Prize for best paper in Brazilian Studies to follow
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The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies presents Keynote Speech for Access & Control: Resources and Technology in the Global South 5th Annual CLACS Graduate Student Conference
Food systems and sovereignty in the Caribbean: Exploring new geographies of uneven development
Marion Werner
SUNY-Buffalo SUNY-B Buffalo oD Department epartmentt of Geography While the devastating astating effects of 1990s ttrade rade policies o on n Haiti’s food system ro rose to promhe 2010 earthquake, far less a ttention has b een paid to food sys inence after the attention been system transformations in neighboring Domin Dominican Republic. contrast nican Re epublic. In sharp con ntrast to Haiti and many of its Caribbean neighbors, Republic’s system hbors, the Dominican Rep public’ss ffood ood sys stem rremains emains strongly regulated. In particular, the institutions and arrangemen arrangements via land reform of nts iinaugurated na auguratted vi ia the ccountry’s ountry’s lan the late 1960s and early 1970s, which articu articulated ulated ssome ome 3 30,000 0,000 b bene eneciary ciary households hou into domestic rice production, continue to this d day despite the characterization ay de espite th he cha aracterrization of the country tically neoliberal. Under the prov visions of the Domin nican Repub as paradigmatically provisions Dominican Republic Central American Free United Dominican Republic will bee Trade Agreement with the Unite ed States, the D ominican Repu gin dismantling g its tariffs on sensitive food imports, impo orts, including g rice, this year. This Th paper will consider how such uch uneven geographies might sshape hape our un understanding nderstanding of foo food sovereignty, and the he role of the state and trade ag agreements greementss iin n regulating food sys systems.
Global & International Studiess B Building uiilding Auditorium (G (GA0001)
Friday, March h4 4th, th,, 5 5:30pm :30pm SPONSORED BY
The Dhar India Studies Program, IU Food Institute, Center for the Study of Global Change, IU Department of History, IU African Studies Program, IU Department of Geography, IUSA 4
SATURDAY, MARCH 5TH
All panels will take place in the Global & International Studies Building - Room 1134
BREAKFAST: 8:30 AM - Atrium 9:00 10:25 AM
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Martin Delaroche (Indiana University) - Applying The New Institutional Analysis of aSocio-Ecological Systems Framework to the Evolution of the Agricultural Frontier of Mato aGrosso Brazil Kristen Connor (University of Michigan) - Musa Musings, or How to Sow a Nation in Uganda Emma McDonell (Indiana University) - Creating Local Quinoa for a Global Marketplace: aGeographic Indications, Collective Action & the Politics of Indigeneity in Peru’s Quinoa Bust
DISCUSSANT: DR. MARION WERNER 10:40 11:50 PM
HEALTH & THE BODY
Amanda Ferstead (Indiana University) - Improving Access to Health Services in Latin aAmerica Through Technology Adan C. Martinez (Indiana University) - The Travels of Cutting: The Rise of Circumcision in Mexico Adela Zhang (University of Chicago) - A Disease of Development: Fighting Tuberculosis awith Technology in Neoliberal Peru
DISCUSSANT: DR. ANYA ROYCE LUNCH WITH DR. MARION WERNER - 12:00 PM GA1050 1:30 2:55 PM
PERMEATING BORDERS
Joe Pecorelli (Indiana University) - America the Fecund: The Use of Ufanismo in Pro aImmigration Propoganda Enrique Alvear Moreno (University of Illinois-Chicago) - Suitable Detainees? Undocumented aImmigrants in the Neoliberal Government of Migration in the US Taylor A. Martin (Indiana University) - A Guatemala Case Study: The Role of Public & aNonprofit Organizations in Reintegration of Returned and Deported Children
DISCUSSANT: DR. PETER GUARDINO 3:10 4:20 PM
PRIVATIZATION
Anthony DeMattee (Indiana University) - A Salary Bubble in the Republic of NGOs? aComplicating Theories of Labor Donation with the Case of Haiti Apurva Apurva (Binghamton University) - Neoliberalization and Urban Exclusion in Cities aof the Global South: Instances from India and Brazil Jordan Lynton (Indiana University)- The Cost of Access: An Analysis of Local Perceptions of aChinese Development in Jamaica
DISCUSSANT: DR. STEPHEN MACEKURA
CLOSING REMARKS - 4:30 PM
DR. ANKE BIRKENMAIER DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN STUDIES 5
FACULTY DISCUSSANTS Eduardo Bronzidio - Indiana University, Anthropology Quetzil Castañeda - Indiana University, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Lessie Jo Frazier - Indiana University, Gender Studies Peter Guardino - Indiana University, History & Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stephen Macekura - Indiana University, International Studies Michelle Moyd -Indiana University, History & African Studies Anya Royce - Indiana University, Anthropology Marion Werner - SUNY Buffalo, Geography
PARTICIPANTS Kara Andrade- American University, Communication Marc L. Antone - Indiana University, History Apurva Apurva - Binghamton University, Sociology Débora Maria Borba - Purdue University, Language & Culture Jessamyn Bowling - Indiana University, School of Public Health Kristen Connor - University of Michigan, Anthropology & History Diego Mauricio Cortes - University of California San Diego, Communication Martin Delaroche - Indiana University, School of Public & Environmental Affairs Anthony DeMattee - Indiana University, School of Public & Environmental Affairs & Political Science Alba Fernández Fernández - Western Michigan University, Spanish Amanda Ferstead - Indiana University, School of Public Health Sarah Foss - Indiana University, History Sierra Funk - Indiana University, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Nicholas Greven - Indiana University, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Poonam Jusrut - University of Illinois, Geography Sunyoung Kim - Purdue University, Spanish & Portuguese Jordan Lynton - Indiana University, Anthropology Andressa Vianna Mansur - University of Cadíz, Anthropology Taylor A. Martin - Indiana University, School of Public & Environmental Affairs Adan C. Martinez - Indiana University, Gender Studies Emma McDonell - Indiana University, Anthropology Enrique Alvear Moreno - University of Illinois-Chicago, Latino Studies Miguel Nunez - San Diego State University, Latin American Studies Joseph Pecorelli - Indiana University, Spanish & Portuguese Jordan Reifsteck - Indiana University, School of Informatics and Computing Adela Zhang - University of Chicago, Center for Latin American Studies
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Thank you to all of our co-sponsors: The Dhar India Studies Program IU Food Institute Center for the Study of Global Change IU Department of History IU Africa Studies Program IU Department of Geography Indiana University Student Association
Indiana University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) is proud to present the 5th Annual CLACS Graduate Student Conference on March 3rd-5th at Indiana University Bloomington. Thank you to all of our participants, discussants & supporters!
To learn more about our center and our upcoming events, please contact us at:
355 N. Jordan Ave Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855 9097 clacs@indiana.edu www.indiana.edu/~clacs