Film Screening: In the Name of Lithium Join us on the 7th April for a film screening of In the Name of Lithium, followed by a Q&A session with the directors. Thursday 7th April | 6.30pm | School 3, St Salvator’s Quad…
CAS is proud to invite you to Patrick’s new monograph Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons. The book is available to buy from Pluto Press (paperback at £19.99), with the possibility of…
Indigenous people of Brazil are asking for your support for their fight to defend their lives and lands. Across Brazil, invasions and destruction of indigenous lands and attacks against indigenous peoples, are…
The Department of Social Anthropology and the Centre for Amerindian and Latin American Studies of the University of St Andrews are hosting an international event in remembrance of Professor Peter Gow (1958-2021) with…
Dr. Ana P Gutiérrez Garza presenting her Book Care for Sale: An Ethnography of Latin American Domestic and Sex Workers in London at Ciclo Conversaciones Metodológicas FLACSO México. Recording here:…
Peru facing rural Covid-19 disaster A disaster is looming in Peru caused by Covid-19 as thousands return to their rural homes where there are limited resources and facilities, according to research carried out at the…
At CAS we are deeply concerned about the recently announced plans to close the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS), both located within the School of Advanced…
The Peruvian Amazon is being hard-hit by the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. Among the most affected groups are the indigenous peoples, in particular the elderly, who in some cases may be the last speakers of the…
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…
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…