Jennifer Burrell

Workshop, 10.06.2015, (AdBK Nürnberg)

Das Sommersemester wird der Beginn einer Vorlesungsreihe mit eingeladenen Gästen sein, die über ihre Spezialgebiete sprechen: Den Anfang macht die amerikanische Anthropologin Jennifer Burrell.
During our workshop, we will discuss the themes of culture, work, place and gender and how insider perspectives on one particular place are reflected in wider contexts. I will show images and films that encompass a 65-year period of ethnographic encounters with the Mam Mayan village of Todos Santos Cuchumatán in Guatemala. These include (1) the photos of German photographer Hans Namuth, who first visited the village in the 1940s, and returned in the 1980s; and, (2) the trilogy of films made by the award-winning filmmaker Olivia Carrescia that trace thirty years of recent history, including civil war and genocide and the transnationalization of the village as migration and so-called gangs became more commonplace. I have included articles and chapters from my own research conducted over the past 20 years, and excerpts from my book Maya After War: Conflict, Power and Politics (University of Texas Press 2013). These include some of the most pressing contemporary concerns in Guatemala in particular and Central America in general.

Jennifer Burrell is an associate professor of anthropology at University at Albany, State University of New York. She received her doctorate from the New School for Social Research in 2005 and a Certificate in International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, and Human Rights Law from University of Salzburg, Austria (2002). Her research interests include questions of power, structural and political violence, political economy and the construction of inequalities. Burrell conducts research in Guatemala, Mexico and the United States on violence, migration, security, human rights and the state. She has been working in this region for over two decades. Her current project examines work, generation and rights at the nexus of migration and security-making, among migrants in the US and the communities from which they hail in Central America and Mexico. Burrell was a Fulbright Fellow to Guatemala in 1999-2000 and has held fellowships at the Humboldt Universität (2013-14) and the Freie Universität (2014-15). Her research has been supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation and Programa de Investigación de Migración y Salud (PIMSA). Her books include Maya After War: Conflict, Power and Politics in Guatemala (University of Texas Press, 2013) and Central America in the New Millennium (Berghahn, 2013).

Der Workshop ist offen für alle Klassen und wird finanziert aus Mitteln des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums zur Förderung der Chancengleichheit

Jennifer Burrell