Dr. A.J. Salman

 
In the years 2008-2012 commuting between The Netherlands (September-December) and Bolivia (January-August). From September to December present most days of the week at the Department. From January-August reachable by e-mail.

Information in Dutch

Website of the department 

Promo Master Anthropology

Specialization

Regional focus on Latin America, in particular Boliva, to a lesser degree on Ecuador, Chile and other countries of the region. Thematic focus on social movements and grass root organizations, democratization and culture, political and urban cultures, citizenship and popular culture.

Teaching in 2011/2012

• Culture and Citizenship (BSc CAO 2e jaar)
• Theoretical Orientation on Human Security part 1(MSc SCA)
• Theoretical Orientation on Human Security part 2, CINB profile (MSc SCA)
  

Research

Currently working on projects dedicated to the 'anthropolization' of the citizenship research in Latin America, to the search for a ‘new democracy’ in Bolivia, and to questions of ‘ordinary’ versus community-justice. Member of CERES, Working Programme 7: "Culture, Religion and Identity Formation".

Publications

Publications (Source: METIS VU)

-2009 (with Koen de Munter) “Extending Political Participation and Citizenship: Pluricultural Civil Practices in Contemporary Bolivia”, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 14(2), pp 432-456.
-2009 ‘We Want a Democracy for Us!’ Representation and Democracy: Current Debates in and on Bolivia, in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 87,121-132.
-2009 “Searching for Status: New Elites in the New Bolivia”, in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 86, 97-105.
-2009 External Report, commissioned by DMH/BuZa, through ‘ECORYS Research and Consulting’, Rotterdam, Power and Change Analysis: Bolivia - Democracy or Democracies?, with Michiel Baud and Fernando Mayorga, including ‘future analysis’ and End- of-Mission-Report, pp 79 and 9, April.
-2009 (with Anke van Dam) “Interculturalidad, policulturalidad y creolización – una reflexión y un caso”, in Koen de Munter, Marcelo Lara and Máximo Quisbert (eds.): Dinámicas interculturales en contextos (trans)andinos, Oruro, Bolivia/Brussels:  
CEPA/VLIR-UOS, 77-97.
-2009- ‘Bolivia: ¿lucha sobre democracia entre autoritarios o demócratas?’, in Umbrales – Revista del Postgrado en Ciencias de Desarrollo, 19, (CIDES-UMSA, La Paz), pp 79-97.
-2008 (with Peer Smets, edited special volume): “Countering Urban Segregation: Theoretical and Policy Innovations from around the Globe”, special issue of Urban Studies 45(7), 8 articles plus introduction, pp 1307-1524.
-2008 (with Peer Smets) “Countering Urban Segregation: Theoretical and Policy Innovations from around the Globe”, in Urban Studies, 45(7), 1307-1332.
-2008 “Reinventing Democracy in Bolivia and Latin America”(Review Essay), in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 84, 87-99.
-2007 “Bolivia and the Paradoxes of Democratic Consolidation”, in: Latin American Perspectives 34(6), 111-130.
-2006 “Narrow Margins, Stern Sovereignty: Juxtaposing Transnational and Local Features of Bolivia’s Crisis”, in: Focaal – European Journal of Anthropology 47(2006), pp 62-76.
-2006 “The Jammed Democracy: Bolivia’s Troubled Political Learning Process”, in: Bulletin of Latin American Research 25(2), pp 163-182.
-2005 (with Willem Assies & Marco Calderón, edited volume): Citizenship, Political Culture and State Transformation in Latin America, Amsterdam: Dutch University Press/Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán.
-2005 (with Willem Assies) “Ethnicity and Politics in Bolivia”, in Ethnopolitics 4(3), pp. 269-297.
 

Publicatielijst Ton Salman