On 16 December 2024, Lorenza Arango Vasquez will defend her thesis investigating how commodity rushes has impacted communities and natural ecosystems in Colombia.
- PhD student
- Date
- Monday 16 Dec 2024, 15:00 - 16:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
In her research Lorenza Arango Vasquez investigates the interconnections between the recent land rush in Colombia and key spheres of social life: labour/social reproduction and state-citizenship relations, and looks at the possible implications of these interactions for social structures, institutions and politics nation-wide.
She asks how contemporary commodity and land rushes shape, and are reshaped by, the politics of labour and state-citizen relations in Colombia. Furthermore, she questions the implications of such changes in terms of structural, institutional, and political shifts.
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Doctoral Board
Chair
Doctoral dissertation supervisor
Professor Jun Borras
Professor Dario Farjado Montana, Externado University Bogota
Dr Yunan Xu, University of Cambridge
Full Doctoral Committee
- Professor Diana Ojeda, Indiana University
- Professor Wendy Wolford, Cornell University
- Professor Marc Edelman, City University of New York
- Professor Jacobo Grajales, Panthéon-Sorbonne University
- Dr Georgina Gomez, International Institute of Social Studies
- More information
The ceremony will begin promptly at 15:00 hrs in the ISS auditorium (Aula B) of the ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague. The doors will be closed after the start of the Public Defence, but will be briefly opened after the candidate’s introduction to allow latecomers to enter.
Children under 7 years old are not allowed in the Aula during the first part of the ceremony.
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Atrium of the ISS.
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.
- Related links
- Latest publication by Lorenza Arango Vasquez
ISS PhD programme