Americas

The first lecture of this year's ALMA Lecture Series titled 'Is This New? Unmasking ‘Uncertainty’ and Rising Fascism through Knowledge and Worldings from the Americas' by María Cárdenas is now available on YouTube.

Using the example of Mexico, ABI staff member Alke Jenss sheds light on the deepening militarization through infrastructure investment in the Berliner Gazette.

Miriam Bartelmann shares her expertise on the global expansion of the national Israeli water company to Argentina and transnational solidarity between Indigenous groups in Argentina and Palestinians in TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research.

Miriam Bartelmann, Viviana García Pinzón, and Fabricio Rodríguez share their insights from the first-phase conference of the Postcolonial Hierarchies network that took place in Tunis in October 2025 in TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research.

Starting from 2026, Alke Jenss will coordinate the network on "Dimensions of Regulation: Conceptualizing the Popular in the Drugs/Violence Nexus", funded by  Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld.

In this article at Phenomenal World, Alke Jenss and Hanna Schnieders discuss Costa Rica's proposed energy sector reform, laying out what it could mean to the role of the state and energy justice to disband Costa Rica's electricity provider ICE.

ABI staff member Fabricio Rodríguez wrote together with two interns at the ABI, Isaac Lanan and Robin Dietz, for the current issue of iz3w on the international impact of the elections in Ecuador.

ABI staff member Viviana García Pinzón's book "Trajectories of Governance" was selected as best book 2024 by the section "Defense, Public Security and Democracy" of the Latin American Studies Association.

Viviana García Pinzón discusses Trump's increasingly aggressive foreign policy in Latin America with Security in Context on the basis of Colombia-US tensions regarding radical deportations.

In this article published by Informationsstelle Peru e.V., Fabricio Rodríguez and Jhan Carlos Ayquipa Mallqui analyse the local challenges posed by the chinese-funded economic project aiming to boost the trade between China and Peru.