Pamela Calla

Clinical Associate Professor

Areas of Research/Interest

Gender and class
State formation
Education policies
Interculturality
Racism in Bolivia

 

Bio

Dr. Pamela Calla, an anthropologist, is Clinical Associate Professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University and director of the Observatory on Racism of the Universidad de la Cordillera in La Paz, Bolivia. Currently she also co-coordinates the "Network of Observatories on Racism in the Americas", an initiative launched by the Universidad de la Cordillera and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas. She is the author of works on race, racism, gender, sexism, ethnicity, interculturality and state formation in Bolivia and coeditor of Antropología del Estado: Dominación y prácticas contestatarias en America Latina. She was an Associate Researcher of the "The State of the State in Bolivia", a project ofthe 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.