PARALLEL SESSIONS
First Annual Norwegian Latin America Research Conference:
Contributing to a better future?
The role of Norway based Latin America research
12-13 November 2009, University of Oslo
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SESSION 1: Thursday 12th November, 17:00-19:00. Georg Sverdrups hus. |
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Natural resources (I): management, exploitation and conservation. Room 3527. Chair: Mariel Støen (SUM, University of Oslo) |
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Jorge A., Monedero C. |
El Paradigma del Desarrollo Sustentable y su Instrumentación a Escala Local. La Prospectiva Ambiental como Enfoque y Método, Etapa I: Diagnóstico Ambiental. Caso de Estudio: Municipio Caroní, Estado Bolívar (Venezuela). |
Centre of Environmental Integral Studies; Universidad Central de Venezuela |
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McNeish J.A. |
On Curses and Devils: Resource Wealth and Sovereignty in Tarija, Bolivia |
University of Bergen |
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Leifsen E. |
Conflicting interests in the Andes: The new extraction and the previous consultation principle |
Department of international environment and development studies, University of Life Sciences |
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Morsut C. |
Energy boom in Brazil: Blessing or Curse? |
International Research Institute of Stavanger |
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Aguilar-Støen M. |
The effect of migration and remittances on land use change: is there a forest transition? |
University of Oslo |
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Natural resources (II): management, exploitation and conservation. Room 3521. Chair: Graciela Rusch (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, NINA) |
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Lindholm C., Lang D. |
Earthquake Risk in Central America |
NORSAR |
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Kalsnes B. |
Landslide risk management in Central America |
International Centre for Geohazards |
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| Devoli G. | Development of scientific knowledge, local politics and international cooperation, in relation with landslide hazard assessment in Nicaragua | Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate | |
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Gottschalk L., Krasovskaia I., Sælthun N.R. |
Renewable Energy in Central America |
University of Oslo |
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Hermans R.L., Lindholm C., Blikra L.H. |
Megarockslides in the Andes of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru: how technology transfer can lead to better understanding, monitoring and early warning of events |
International Centre for Geohazards, NORSAR, Åknes/Tafjord Early-Warning Centre |
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Culture and Society (I). Room 3511. Chair: Steinar A. Sæther (University of Oslo) |
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| Pedersen C.H. | Reconstruction of texts-an analytical approach to explore meanings of socio/cultural categorisations and positionings | Roskilde University | |
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Solomon, T. |
Performing Indigeneity: Aesthetics and Politics of Folkloric Festivals in Highland Bolivia |
University of Bergen |
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Kolstrup N., Lopez T., Tafjord B.O. |
Health care practices, offers, and choices among Mayan mothers in Guatemala and Mexico |
University of Tromsø |
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Poverty, inequality and human development (I). Room 3512. Chair: Asunción St. Clair (University of Bergen) |
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Roth L., Metais J., Leer L. |
Social movements in Mexico and the making of rights |
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, EHSS, Finnmark University College |
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Leer L. |
Gender and complex legal pluralism in Mexico and Bolivia. |
Finnmark University College |
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Haarstad H. |
Extracting for equality? Bolivia’s challenges of turning gas into human development |
University of Bergen |
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Wiig H., Fuentes D. |
Closing the gender land gap? The effects of rural land titling on women in Peru |
Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research |
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Politics and governance (I). Room 3513. Chair: Einar Berntzen (University of Bergen) |
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Skaar E. |
Explaining post-transitional justice in Chile |
Chr. Michelsen Institute |
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Sønneland A.M. |
Transitional justice in Argentina |
Diakonhjemmet University College |
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Aasmundsen H.G. |
Religion og politikk i Argentina; Pentekostale og katolikker i det offentlige rom |
Sødertørn Høgskola i Stockholm |
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SESSION 2: Friday 13th November, 11:00-13:00. Georg Sverdrups hus. |
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Natural resources: management, exploitation and conservation (III). Room 3513. Chair: Evelyn Hoen (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, NORAD) |
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Palacios-Berrios H. |
Climate change and landscape dynamics. Assessing environmental trends in relation to climate change in the Tropical Andes |
University of Bergen |
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Chinga-Carrasco G., Syverud K.,Toledo Soto J.,Toledo P.G.,Øyaas K., Gregersen Ø. |
A survey of Chilean natural resources - focus on novel materials and bio-energy solutions |
Paper and Fibre Research Institute, Universidad de Concepción, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
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Cepeda J. |
Landslide hazards in Central America and the Caribbean: climate change, early-warning systems and land-use planning. |
University of Oslo and International Centre for Geohazards |
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Biological control of plant pest in Latin America and Norway |
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Rusch. G. |
Functional diversity, a conceptual framework to design multi-functional silvopastoral systems in Nicaragua |
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) |
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Culture and Society (II). Room 3511. Chair: Steinar A. Sæther (University of Oslo) |
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Prefaces as a Site of Cultural Translation. Representations of Latin America in Scandinavian Translations of Latin American Literature. |
University of Oslo |
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Eide L. |
Discourses on Latin America in Norwegian textbooks for Spanish as a foreign language |
University of Bergen |
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Arce Cortes T. |
Metal is a war scream, and Goth a cry: Norway and Mexico |
Universidad Iberoamericana |
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Sæther S. |
Norwegians in Latin America before 1940 |
University of Oslo |
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Poverty, inequality and human development (II). Room 3512. Chair: Asunción St. Clair (University of Bergen) |
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Solis Coello D.A. |
Bureaucracy and social policy. How can the current reform policy can be modified by social interactions |
Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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Martinez, O. |
Los efectos de las transferencias del programa Oportunidades de México en la disminución de la pobreza |
Universidad Iberoamericana |
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Reference group consumption and the subjective wellbeing of the poor in Peru |
University of Oslo |
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Lothe E.A. |
Children of Former Political Prisoners in Chile -Long term Implications for Resilience and Mental Health |
University of Bergen and Lovisenberg Deaconal University College |
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Politics and governance (II). Auditorium 1. Chair: Einar Berntzen (University of Bergen) |
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| Flores C. | Drug trafficking, violence, corruption and democracy in Mexico | Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social and University of Oslo | |
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Krøvel R. |
Guerrilleros writing and talking on revolution and indigenous peoples in Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua from 1960 until 2000. |
Oslo University College |
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Stølen K.A. |
“Somos Revueltos”: Community and Identity among Guatemalan Returnees |
University of Oslo |
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Bonilla J. |
Honduras: Profunda Crisis Democrática y Debilitamiento del Estado de Derecho |
Centro de Documentación de Honduras |
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Marsteintredet L. |
Variation of executive instability in presidential regimes: Three types of presidential interruption in Latin America |
University of Bergen |
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Economy, industry, business and markets. Room 3522. Chair: Henrik Wiig (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, NIBR) |
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Plahte J. |
Strategic evaluations and techno-economic networks. Articulation of interests related to public health and commercialism in the Cuban biotech sector and vaccine industry. |
University of Oslo |
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Meyer F. |
Looking at the Feet of an Elephant. Work and live at two Nodes of a Transnational Commodity Chain: the Cases of Porto Trombetás (Brazil) and Årdal (Norway) |
Oslo University College |
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Bull B. |
Confronting Transnationalization: the Economic, Environmental, and Political Strategies of Central American Economic Groups |
University of Oslo |
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