Results – Capitalist commercial expansion and the Amazon as a new resource frontier in the 21st century
OPINION
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Center for Labor and Agrarian Development Studies (CEDLA) announce the results of the call for research scholarships “Capitalist mercantile expansion and the Amazon as a new resource frontier in the 21st century”.
One hundred and fifty applications were received . After technical review, 146 of them were deemed eligible for evaluation by the International Committee. The Committee considered the quality, relevance, and coherence of the projects in accordance with the call for proposals.
In view of the excellent quality of most of the proposals submitted, it was decided to double the support and award 20 (twenty) scholarships in total.
The evaluation process was carried out by an International Committee composed of sixteen (16) expert evaluators: Silvia Molina (Bolivia), Javier Gómez Aguilar (Bolivia), Walter Arteaga (Bolivia), María Elena Rodríguez (Brazil), Fabio Barbosa (Brazil), Antonio de Lisio (Venezuela), Denisse Roca-Servat (Peru), Felipe Milanez (Brazil), Narciso Barrera Bassols (Mexico), Nora Estela Fernández Mora (Ecuador), Urphy Vasquez Baca (Peru), Carlos Walter Porto Gonçalves (Brazil), Elizabeth Bravo (Ecuador), Marcos Leite De Matos Todt (Brazil), María Luisa Eschenhagen (Colombia) and Juan Wahren (Argentina).
Based on the above, the list of 20 winning projects is as follows:
| Intern | Institution | Country of the institution | Country of research | Title of the project |
| Juan Pablo Neri Pereyra | Bolivian Catholic University "San Pablo" | Bolivia | Bolivia | Study on the construction of Amazonian indigenous identities, in the context of the value chain of the Brazilian chestnut and other local products, in Bolivia |
| Huascar Freddy Salazar Lohman | Institute of Social and Economic Studies – IESE/UMSS | Bolivia | Bolivia | Geopolitics of the commons in the Bolivian Amazonian North: Indigenous and peasant struggles for life and against capital in the 21st century |
| Luis Fernando Novoa Garzon and Daniele Severo da Silva | Urban and Regional Research and Planning Institute – IPPUR/UFRJ | Brazil | Bolivia | Confluence of agribusiness, hydroelectric projects and deforestation in the Amazon: the case of the Brazil (Rondônia)-Bolívia (Beni) border region |
| Juan Carlos Guzmán Salinas | Major University of San Simón | Bolivia | Bolivia | Cities and communities in the Bolivian Amazon: Approaches to a contradictory energy reality |
| Neyer Maximiliano Nogales Vera and Lizandra Jannette Paye Vargas | Planning and Management Center – CEPLAG/UMSS | Bolivia | Bolivia | Relations of production and land creation between capital, peasants, and indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon: The case of the northern zone of agricultural frontier expansion |
| Nelson Eduardo Bernal Dávalos | University of Brasilia UNB. CDS Sustainability Development Center | Bolivia | Bolivia | Consequences of Amazonian exploration. Migration and cultural loss of the Mosetén indigenous people – Bolívia. |
| Nohely Guzmán Narváez and José Octavio Orsag Molina | University of Texas at Austin | United States | Bolivia | Amazonia under siege: neoliberal-agroindustrial regime on the southern border. Bolivia-Brazil (2000-2019). |
| Elizabeth López Canelas | Center for Labor and Agrarian Development Studies – CEDLA | Bolivia | Bolivia | Present absences of the State and the impact on the rights of indigenous and peasant peoples of the Northern Amazon of Bolivia |
| Mabel Lizbeth Martínez Carpeta and Julián Andrés Neira Carreño | Colombian Institute of Family Welfare and World Food Programme | Colombia | Colombia | Indigenous territorial management in the Upper Caquetá River. Multi-scalar strategic scenarios in the Colombian Amazon |
| Gustavo Adolfo Muñoz Gaviria | Kavilando – KAVILANDO | Colombia | Colombia | Justifications and contradictions of the Colombian State in the expansion of extractive capital in the Amazon, between 2002 and 2019 |
| María Cristina Chuquimarca Mosquera | Center for Sociological Studies – CES/COLMEX | Mexico | Ecuador | The presence of the Ecuadorian State in the mining territories of the Amazon. Case study of the Tundayme parish, the country's first mega-mining project. |
| Manuel Bayón Jiménez | Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Ecuador – FLACSO | Ecuador | Ecuador | Extended urbanization and the formation of urban-indigenous subjects in the Amazon of Ecuador. |
| Jorge Efraín Paucar Achayranco and Natividad Quillahuaman Lasteros | Postgraduate Unit – UPG/UNMSM | Peru | Peru | Market cycles, economic policies, and the marginalization of the Shipibo-Konibo indigenous people's own economies by oil palm and gold mining in two economic corridors of the Peruvian Amazon |
| Claudia Josefina Rodríguez Gilly and Omar Gabriela Vazquez Heredia | Simon Bolivar University | Venezuela | Venezuela | Expansion of the extractive frontier in Venezuela: the Orinoco Mining Arc. The State and paramilitary organizations in relation to the indigenous peoples of that territory. |
| Debora Assumpcao e Lima and Andrea Patricia Sosa | Department of Geography – DG/USP | Brazil | Brazil | Advancement of the agricultural frontier, landgrabbing and resistance in the Brazilian Amazon |
| Isabella Cristina Lunelli and Marina Corrêa de Almeida | Institute of Applied Economic Research, Directorate of Social Studies and Policies (IPEA, DISOC) | Brazil | Brazil | INDIGENOUS FAVELAS: URBANIZATION PROCESSES OF THE INDIGENOUS POPULAÇÃO AS A CONSEQUÊNCIA OF CAPITALIST COMMERCIAL EXPANSION ON THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON BETWEEN THE YEARS OF 2003-2019 |
| Bruno Cezar Pereira Malheiro | Post-Graduation Program in Geography – PPGEO/UFF | Brazil | Brazil | Geographies of Exceção and Large Mining Projects in the Amazon: an analysis of the corporate territorialization processes of the Vale company in the mineral province of Carajás-Pará-Brazil |
| Milson Betancourt Santiago | Center for Research on Social Dynamics – CIDS/UEXTERNADO | Colombia | Amazon Basin (various countries) | Global-local disputed territorialities in the Andean Amazon (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia) |
| Martha Cecilia Moncada Paredes | Faculty of Political Science and Sociology – Complutense University of Madrid | Spain | Amazon Basin (various countries) | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela |
| Rinaldo de Castilho Rossi | federal university of Bahia | Brazil | Amazon Basin (various countries) | POINTS FOR MARKETS: A IIRSA EA URBANIZAÇÃO NA TÍPLICE FRONTEIRA PERU-BRAZIL-BOLÍVIA |
This ruling is irrevocable and cannot be appealed.
Buenos Aires, April 20, 2020
