Hanne Cottyn

Post-doctoral researcher 

   History Department
   Ghent University
   UFO, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35, 9000 Gent
   lokaal 130.012 (3rd floor)
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Research Interests

-          Global Studies and World History

-          Andean Ethnohistory (Peru, Bolivia)

-          Rural history

-          Peasant and indigenous communities

-          Land rights, land reform, land regimes, land and natural resources policy

-          Resistance and social movements 

 

PhD Research

"Renegotiating communal autonomy. Communal land rights and liberal land reform on the Bolivian altiplano. Carangas, 1860-1930."

Supervisor Prof. Dr. Eric Vanhaute

Defended 20/07/2014

This research forms part of the research project "The end of peasant societies in an historical and comparative perspective. A comparative research project into the changing peasant societies in Europe (North Sea Area), Asia (Yangtze River Delta) and Latin America (Central Andes)" (FWO-Vlaanderen 2009-2012), under direction of Prof. Dr. Eric Vanhaute and with fellow researcher Yang Wang and Hanne Cottyn. This is a subproject of Polarizations and upward trends in the world-system (1500-2000), research project 2008-2012 under direction of I. Wallerstein (International Social Science Council, UNESCO, as part of the program 'Global Social Change. Financing: Gulbankian Commission). Theme: Trends of polarisation and the end of peasantries.

 

Publications

New publication: Cottyn, Hanne, Jahncke, Javier, Montoya, Luis, Pérez, Ela, and Mattes Tempelmann (eds.). 2016. Las luchas sociales por la tierra en América Latina: Un análisis histórico, comparativo y global. Conference proceedings. Lima: Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.

caratula On June 24th and 25th, 2015, the CCC research group, as member of the Ghent Centre for Global Studies, co-organized an international conference on "Social Struggles for Land in Latin America: An Historical, Comparative and Global Perspective", together with the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Peru) and the Red Muqui – Proposal and Action Network (Peru), at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in the city of Lima. The conference aimed to create a more profound dialogue between researchers, institutions, social organizations and rural communities, between historical and contemporary perspectives, and between comparative (cases of different countries) and global views, on change and continuity in rural Latin America. The contributions to the conference are now brought together in a new publication, co-edited by the Ghent Centre for Global Studies.

(re-submitted) with Vanhaute, Eric and Yang Wang. "A World-Systems Frontier Perspective to Land: Unravelling the Uneven Trajectory of Land Rights Standardization." Journal of World-Systems Research

(accepted) "The open-field system and the persistence of communal land systems: lessons from the Andes." In Open Fields. Edited by Erik Thoen, Christopher Dyer and Tom Williamson. CORN Series. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 

(accepted) with Vanhaute, Eric. "A historical, comparative and global perspective on land regimes and land reforms." In Handbook of Transregional Studies. Leipzig University.

(accepted) "Vivir Bien en las tierras de comunidad. La trayectoria histórica de los derechos comunitarios a la tierra en el aliplano boliviano." In Vivir Bien: Reciprocidad y ecología en los Andes. Edited by Koen De Munter, Jacqueline Michaux and Gilberto Pauwels. Oruro: CREAR and CEPA.

(forthcoming) with Vanhaute, Eric, and Yang Wang. "Peasantries" In Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell 

(2016) "Mantener la exvinculación a raya: reformas liberales y derechos comunitarios en Carangas, 1860-1930" Umbrales (La Paz, Bolivia), 29: 97-132.

(2016) with Jahncke, Javier, Montoya, Luis, Pérez, Ela, and Mattes Tempelmann (eds.) Las luchas sociales por la tierra en América Latina: Un análisis histórico, comparativo y global. Conference proceedings. Lima: Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.

(2015) with Vanhaute, Eric, and Yang Wang. “Peasantries.” In The World is Out of Joint: World-Historical Interpretations of Continuing Polarizations, edited by Immanuel Wallerstein. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers. 

(2012) “Entre comunidad indígena y Estado liberal: los vecinos de Carangas (siglos XIX-XX).” In Boletín Americanista, Special Issue Estrategias indígenas de representación en la Bolivia republicanaBoletín Americanista, no. 65: 39-59.

(2012) "¿Ruptura Sin Reforma? El Proceso De Reforma Agraria En Turco." In Turco Marka. Hombres, Dioses Y Paisaje En La Historia De Un Pueblo Orureño. Historia-Arqueología-Arquitectura, edited by Ximena Medinaceli, 157-86. La Paz: Instituto de Estudios Bolivianos (IEB).

(2011) “Reforma agraria y comunidades originarias desde una perspectiva del sistema-mundo. El proceso de titulación de tierras en Turco (Oruro, Bolivia).” Oruro (Bolivia), Latinas Editores, Cuadernos de Investigación CIPS, no. 1.

(2011) “La reorientación de las comunidades de Carangas dentro de los circuitos económicos del espacio andino (1860-1930).” Oruro (Bolivia), Latinas Editores, Cuadernos de Investigación CIPS, no. 2.

Teaching Activities

Teaching assistant - Master course "Research Studies Global Studies and World History", 2015-2016. (A004048 - Onderzoeksseminarie: wereldstudies en wereldgeschiedenis).

Research Activities

"A frontier perspective towards the commodification of land. Incorporation and resistance in the Andes." Paper presented at the Commodity Frontiers workshop. December 4-5 2015. International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

"Las luchas sociales por la tierra en América Latina." International Conference (organizing committee), June 24-25 2015. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. 

"The local trajectories of global frontiers of land control.” Panel organized at the WHA Conference (World History Association). July 16-18 2014. San José, Costa Rica.

"Keeping enclosure at bay: Liberal land reform and communal land rights in Carangas (Bolivia), 1866-1952." Paper presented at the U4 Conference (Ghent Centre for Global Studies). June 27 2014. Ghent, Belgium.

Frontiers: een wereldhistorisch perspectief op plattelandsgeschiedenis.” Presentation at the Spring meeting of the Dutch Association for Agrarian History. April 4 2014, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

“A story of thwarted enclosure: Land rights and ethnic boundaries in Carangas (Bolivia), 1866-1952.” paper presented at the Workshop Frontiers and Borders in Global and Transnational History” (UGent Research Group Communities Comparisons Connections, NW Posthumus network Drivers and Carriers of Globalization). September 2013. Ghent, Belgium.

“Global land commodification, national land reform and communal land tenure in Carangas (Bolivia), 19th-20th centuries.” paper presented at the Rural History Conference 2013, European Rural History Organisation (EURHO). August 2013. Bern, Switzerland.

"The balance of indigenous autonomy from and interaction with “the outside world” in the context of Bolivian state formation. Cross-border mobility and negotiation on the border in Carangas (1860-1930)." Presentation at the 21st WHA Conference (World History Association). June 2012. Albuquerque, USA.

“Indigenous mobility and transnational networks in the context of liberal state formation in Bolivia (1860-1930)." Presentation at the annual Postumus Conference (N.W. Posthumus Institute). May 24-25 2012. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

“Carangas en movimiento. La participación indígena en redes transfronterizas y «la experiencia andina del liberalismo boliviano» (1860-1930).” Presentation at the Coloquio internacional Aproximaciones a la etnohistoria  de Jach’a Carangas. April 9-10 2012. Oruro, Bolivia.

“Pastoralist communities, their struggles and archives on the Bolivian Altiplano.” Research Group meeting of the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies. October 5 2011. St. Andrews, United Kingdom.

“La reorientación de las comunidades de Carangas dentro de los circuitos económicos del espacio andino (1860-1930).” Presentation at the VIII Congreso Internacional de Etnohistoria. June 26-29 2011. Sucre, Bolivia. 

“Reforma agraria y comunidades originarias desde una perspectiva del sistema-mundo. El proceso de titulación de tierras en Turco (Oruro, Bolivia).” Presentation at the VIII Congreso Internacional de Etnohistoria. June 26-29 2011. Sucre, Bolivia.

“The Andean rural space at the crossroad of mining and peasant communities. The regional trajectories of Carangas and Paria, 1860-1930.” Presentation at the ESTER/GLOBALEURONET Research Design Course. November 23-27 2010. Vienna, Austria.

“Andean trajectories at the crossroad of mining and rural livelihoods. The competition over land and natural resources on the Bolivian highlands: connecting local strategies to world historical processes. Carangas and Poopó, 1880-1930.” Commodities of Empire Project. International Workshop Local forms of production as resistance against global domination: Anti-commodities (IISH). June 18-19 2010. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

“Andean trajectories at the crossroad of mining and rural livelihoods. The form(ul)ation of coping strategies in response to the competition over land and natural resources in the 19th and 20th centuries.” Presentation at the seminar “Work in progress” (N.W. Posthumus Institute, IISH). April 22-23 2010. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

“The Land Reform Project in Bolivia, 1953-2006. The Effects for Aymara Communities of the Altiplano through a World-Systemic Lens.” SLAS Conference 2010. April 9-10 2010. Bristol, United Kingdom.

Research Visits Abroad

1.9.2010-1.10.2010      Affiliated researcher CEPA, Oruro, Bolivia. Research in Oruro Department and National Archive, Sucre, Bolivia.

30.1.2011-20.7.2011    Affiliated researcher CEPA, Oruro, Bolivia. Research in Oruro Department and National Archive, Sucre, Bolivia. (FWO long-term research grant)

9.12.2011-23.4.2012    Affiliated researcher CEPA, Oruro, Bolivia. Research in Oruro Department, National Archive, Sucre, Bolivia, and in Iquique and Arica, North-Chile.