Charlotta Widmark
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology; Employees
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 70 33
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 06 39
- E-mail:
- charlotta.widmark@antro.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Thunbergsvägen 3 H
- Postal address:
- Box 631
751 26 Uppsala
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Short presentation
Ph.D. and Senior lecturer in Cultural Anthropology. Director of Studies at the Advanced and Research Level in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology.
Biography
Research interests
In my research I have mainly been interested in issues concerning identity, power and social change. I have studied the Latin American democratization process with a focus on the relation between state and indigenous peoples, poverty, inequality and the intersections of gender, class and ethnicity. I am also interested in the anthropology of development and urban anthropology. My regional focus is the Andean region, mainly Bolivia and Peru.
Since 2019 I am working on a project I call Social inequality, Spatialized Cultural Transformations and Life Trajectories. A Re-study of La Paz’s urban outskirts. During three months I re-visited the place where I did my fieldwork for the dissertation to see what has happened after 20 years in terms of social in/equality.
Within the interdisciplinary research node The good city – Urbanism and social change, where I was a research leader 2012-2015, we analyzed the conditions, forms, messages and meanings of cities in time and space. Together with master students we studied social and cultural processes of change in three European cities taking methods, and the concepts of space and place, and heritage as a point of departure, see http://www.histfilfak.uu.se/Godastaden/
During the period 2006-2012 I worked with a research project on the multicultural project and its consequences in Bolivia. The project focused on the question of under what circumstances the aims of multiculturalism are compatible with the aims of gender equality.
My PhD dissertation (2003) shed light on the processes of urbanization in Bolivia and gave a background to the difficulties of the processes of democratization. The study is based on fieldwork in the cities of La Paz and El Alto. I studied how Aymara-speaking migrants organized themselves and which social strategies they used in their strivings for a better life and social mobility.
Teaching interests
At the moment I teach economic anthropology, anthropology and religion, as well as academic writing at the undergraduate level. I also teach the Introductory course, 'Ethnography'’ and Anthropology in Practice’ at the advanced level.
Publications
Recent publications
- Rome Encounters (2021)
- The making of Garbatella in the midst of tourism, gentrification, and Rome's urban heritage (2021)
- [Review of] Susan Helen Ellison: Domesticating Democracy. The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia (2020)
- Political Gender Dilemmas of Conflict and Complementarity in Bolivia (2019)
- Stadens skifte äger rum (2017)
All publications
Articles
- [Review of] Susan Helen Ellison: Domesticating Democracy. The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia (2020)
- Political Gender Dilemmas of Conflict and Complementarity in Bolivia (2019)
- Two Hundred Years of Gendered Nation-Making in Bolivia (2010)
- To Be Well Seen: The Cultural Economy of the Urban Poor in Bolivia (2006)
Books
- Rome Encounters (2021)
- Istanbul Encounters (2016)
- London encounters (2015)
- Antropologi och tid (2013)
- Bodies and Borders in Latin America (2012)
- Ethnographic Practice and Public Aid (2009)
- To Make Do in the City (2003)
Chapters
- The making of Garbatella in the midst of tourism, gentrification, and Rome's urban heritage (2021)
- Stadens skifte äger rum (2017)
- Gentrification, middle class and tourism. Street observations at Westbourne Grove in London (2015)
- Tid för fältarbete (2013)
- Urban Aymara Speakers in Bolivia and the Processes of Culture and Identity Formation (2012)
- Embodied plurinational identities in the urban highlands of Bolivia (2012)
- Mockery and Marginalization (2010)
- Introduction (2009)
- Shortcuts to Anthropological Fieldwork in Sida-commissioned Assessments (2009)
- Multiculturalism and gendered citizenship in Bolivia (2007)