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Carlos Valderrama Renteria

Bio

Carlos Valderrama is a first year PhD student in residence at Amherst.Carlos' interests include socio-cultural and ethnic-racial identities, collective action and social movements, social and political subject, racism and ethnicity, coloniality of power, cultural study and decolonial theory.

Education

B.A. Social Work – Universidad del Valle (Cali–Colombia) 2008

Publications

“State, society, and the applicability of Law 70 in the rural zones of the Pacific region” (2007). “CUNUNO” Research Journal No 2. History Department of the Universidad del Valle. (in Spanish).

“Collective actions and the constitution of social and political subjects. Study on organizational of people living in displacement situation of the popular sector of the city of Cali” (2008) Research Group “Subjects and Collective Actions”. Humanity Department. School of Social Work of the Universidad del Valle. (In Spanish).

“Racialized stereotypical representations of Afro-Colombian women. A case of triple discrimination in Colombia”, (2008) In “Sociological foundations of the effects of multiple discriminations in the life of Afro-Colombian women in Cali”, European Union-FUPAD-National Network of Afrocolombian women "Kambiri"-Cali-Colombia. (in Spanish).

“Constructing Afro-Urban Ethnic Identity: an ethnography of the organizational dynamics in processes of production of Afro-Colombian ethnic identities in Cali” (2008).  PROSPECTIVA. Humanity Department. Journal of the School of Social Work of the Universidad del Valle. (In Spanish).

“Contributions located to the debate on collective action and social movement. Practices and Political action of the Afrocolombian social movement” (2009). In: Permanent Seminar. “Subject and Collective Actions. Social Subject, Collective Action and Social Worker”. Second Edition. Humanity Department, School of Social Work of the Universidad del Valle. (In Spanish).

Research

• Researcher of the baseline study on the effects of multiple discrimination towards afrocolombian women in Cali. European Union-FUPAD-National Network of Afrocolombian women "Kambiri"-Cali-Colombia.
• Researcher of Study on organizational of people living in displacement situation of the popular sector of the city of Cali” (2007). Research Group “Subjects and Collective Actions”. Humanity Department. School of Social Work of the Universidad del Valle. (In Spanish).

Teaching

Fall 2009, Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.