Archive for May 1st, 2017
Erin Beck’s book now out
How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs
by Erin Beck. Duke University Press (May 2017)
Erin Beck is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon and a member of the CLLAS Executive Board.
“In How Development Projects Persist Erin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working in Guatemala and problematizes the accepted wisdom of how NGOs function. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork, she shows how development models and plans become entangled in the relationships among local actors in ways that alter what they are, how they are valued, and the conditions of their persistence. › Continue reading
Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies Gift Fund
Access the above link for giving to the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies Gift Fund. Online gifts may be made using the form available at this link; all gifts are processed by the University of Oregon Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization responsible for receiving and administering private donations to the University of Oregon.
Search
Upcoming Events
- April 25, 2018:
- May 1, 2018:
- May 9, 2018:
- May 31, 2018:
2017 Latino Roots Celebration
Recent Postings
- 2018 CLLAS Graduate Research Series: Latinx & Latin American Studies Intersections: Migration, Indigeneity & Belonging
- “The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories” 7th Annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
- Eye of the storm: UO students reach out to hard-hit Puerto Rico
- CLLAS TEACH-IN “Cuba’s Change of Leadership & Cuba-U.S. Relations”
- Environmental Justice, Race, and Public Lands: A Symposium
- Provost awards new Knight Chair to professor of anthropology Lynn Stephen
. . 
. . 