Susana Carmona Castillo (S.C.C.)

I am an anthropologist researching in the fields of development anthropology, political ecology, and STS, with a particular interest in mining and the extractive industries in Latin America and the Global South.

I work as a lecturer at UCM, where I have developed the courses Latin America: history politics and cultures, and Extractivism and "under" development in Latin America. I also tutor the courses "Sociological Perspectives", and "Ethnography and qualitative interviewing". 

I currently participate in the research project SinHambre of Universidad de Antioquia concerned with food systems and food security among the Wayuu people in Colombia. As for future plans, I am writing a project about Water management technologies and community participation in extractivism contexts, and one about Activist networks against coal extraction between Colombia and Europe. 

Professional career history

I have a Phd in Anthropology from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota Colombia. Dissertation: “Un hueco que camina”: gubernamentalidad y legitimación de una corporación minera. El caso de el Cerrejón en La Guajira, Colombia [“A walking pit”: governmentality and legitimation strategies of a coal-mining corporation. The case of Cerrejón, La Guajira, Colombia.] Research project awarded with the "Colombian Institute for Anthropology and History (ICANH) research funding 2016."

Before working at Maastricht University I worked as a research associate at Ruhr University Bochum. at the Chair of Cultural Psychology and Anthropology of Knowledge -  professor Estrid Sorensen. 

I have teach bachelor and graduate courses at Universidad del Rosario, Ruhr University Bochum. and Goethe University Frankfurt. 

I have participated of several research projects, including: 

  • Regimens of economic intervention and expert knowledge. Ranchería River Valley, La Guajira.
  • Prior Consultation and participation mechanisms. Spaces of participation of ethnic minorities and other communities in the projects of exploitation of natural resources, infrastructure and development.
  • Formulation of a concerted Model of Health Care for the indigenous communities affiliated to Comfama of the Municipality of Frontino - Antioquia.  

S.C.C. Carmona Castillo

Lecturer

University College Maastricht, Faculty of Science and Engineering
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