Delivering computer tablets to a rural area in northern Peru in times of a pandemic, Oliver Calle and Nina Laurie
Last week it was announced that the UK will be leading in post-El Niño Costero reconstructions in Peru…
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First impressions in the first days of COVID-19 in Brazil, Andreza de Souza Santos
Where are you coming from, asked the saleswomen from a shop already in São Paulo at a safe distance. I said I was coming from London and asked her, “aren’t you afraid to talk to me, I don’t mind looking around on my…
Cuidado radical y comunitario desde movimientos feministas durante la pandemia en el Ecuador
Colectivo Kaleidos: María Elissa Torres y Maka Suárez Lenny nos cuenta que los primeros días estaban desesperadas. El ambiente en Guayaquil era de caos total, muchas compañeras de la UNTHA (Unión Nacional de…
The UK has won the concession to undertake urgent reconstruction work still needed in Peru following the devastating caused by the El Niño Costero in 2017.
El Comercio Newspaper President Martín Vizcarra announced that the United Kingdom was the winner of the contract through which reconstruction works will be carried out in the areas affected by the El Niño Coastal…
IMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19 FOR PRENATAL CARE AND CHILDBIRTH IN BRAZIL, Cecilia McCallum and Leonildo Severino da Silva
At a time when the world is facing an unprecedented pandemic, all aspects of human life in this year 2020 are deeply affected. The disease designated as COVID-19, caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has not only…
NEW BOOK: The Politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil”, Andreza De Souza Santos
De Souza Santos, A. A. (October 2019) “The Politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil”, London: Rowman & Littlefield International. Who decides which stories about a city are remembered? How do…
The Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography – Kaleidos, Ecuador and COVID19
Ecuador, like so many other countries in the world is heavily affected by the COVID19 pandemic. We remain in a state of emergency though given the added economic difficulties we’ve begun to see some relaxations in our…
The COVID-19 lockdown: state against society in Jamaica, Huon Wardle with Laura Obermuller
The Jamaican government has used its ‘Emergency Powers Act’ many times since independence. Recently, bursts of violence, involving attempts by gangs to grasp control of the illegal drug trade on the island, have led to…
LANDSCAPE OF NEW BRAZILIAN CINEMA
The IGCCC is organising a workshop on THE LANDSCAPE OF NEW BRAZILIAN CINEMA with scholar – and now filmmaker – Lúcia Nagib and others, on Tuesday, 30 June 2020. Participants will be invited to see, in advance, Lúcia…
Historia de dos ciudades, Eduardo González Cueva.
Durante las primeras noches de la emergencia, las ambulancias pasaban continuamente ante nuestra casa, como el lamento interminable de la ciudad enferma. Sus luces urgentes exigían atención, pero nos habíamos fijado,…