Pamela Calla

Clinical Associate Professor

Areas of Research/Interest

Gender and class
State formation
Education policies
Interculturality
Racism in Bolivia

 

Bio

Pamela Calla is a Bolivian anthropologist engaged with issues of gender, race, class, and state formation in Latin America. She is currently a clinical associate professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University and received the Dr. Martin Luther King Faculty Award in 2016-2017 at that same institution. She co-founded the Observatory on Racism in Bolivia (2007-2017) and the Red de Accion e Investigacion Anti-Racista en las Americas (2010-Present), an initiative launched by the Universidad de la Cordillera and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas. She is coeditor of Antropología del Estado: Dominación y prácticas contestatarias en America Latina (2007). She was an Associate Researcher of the "The State of the State in Bolivia", a project of the Informe sobre Desarrollo Humano, 2007, United Nations Development Project and coeditor and author of Observando el Racismo: Racismo y Regionalismo en el Proceso Constituyente Boliviano, Agenda Defensorial No. 11 and 13, Defensor del Pueblo and Universidad de la Cordillera

Publications

  • Epilogue: Making Sense of May 24th in Sucre. Toward an Anti-racist Legislative Agenda
    In Race and Racism in the Andes and Mesoamerica
    Laura Gotkowitz (Ed.) (Duke forthcoming)
  • Capítulo 2: Luchas legales y política de las calles en torno al racismo: Decentrando la patrarcalidad del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
    En Relaciones de Género e Identidades Indígenas en Mesoamérica y la Región Andina
    Ciesas, Mexico y Universidad de Essex, Gran Bretana. Mexico, 2010 (in press)
  • Violencia en el espacio público y las reconfiguraciones sociales. Reflexiones desde Bolivia y América Latina
    Public violence and social reconfigurations. Reflections from Bolivia and Latin America
    (co-edited with Helene Risor). La Paz: Plural, 2010 (in press)
  • Introducción a Observando el racismo. Racismo y regionalismo en el proceso autonómico: hacia una perspectiva de clase
    Introduction to Observing racism. Racism and regionalism in the autonomy process: towards a class perspective
    Agenda Defensorial 13, Revista 2, Defensor del Pueblo and Universidad de la Cordillera. La Paz: Presencia.