E-Mail: d.celleri(at)ish.uni-hannover.de

Tel.: 0049-(0)-511-7625174

Research project

Indigenous youth: Ethnicity, Class and Gender. The Case of Kichwa-Otavalos in Ecuadorian Highlands.

My research project is focused on the transformation processes in rural communities, which lead to gender, class and generational conflicts. It is being carried out in the Otavalo region, in the northern highlands of Ecuador, where ethnification  has been an adaptation strategy to these changes. This research explores  the intersections of gender, class and age in order to provide a different approach from frequently applied cultural perspectives focused on “indigenous identity”. The analysis on these intersections might leads us to a tangible explanation of the causes and consequences of migratory phenomena and generational and inter-ethnic conflicts that indigenous young people experience in their communities.

Education

2005-2009 Especialization on Transformation Studies and Gender Studies at the Leibniz University of Hannover

2003-2009 Diploma in Social Sciences at the Leibniz University of Hannover

2006-2009 Heinrich Böll Foundation, Full Scholarship

2002-2003 Studies in Environmental Management at the Technical University Loja, Quito

2002 Quito City Council/ Ocho y Medio Cinema Scholarship for training in video-Documentals production, Quito

2001- 2003 Studies of Sociology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito

Scientific experience

Since 2010 Research associate (Phd) at the Research Network for Latin America – Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging at the Leibniz University of Hannover

2005-2009 Research Assistant at the Institute of Sociology of the Leibniz University of Hannover. Occupation: Responsable of the Documentation Center for Latinamerica, Assistant professor in several seminars

2002-2003 Research Assistant at the project: “Social policies of Ecuadorian governments” (since 1960 till 2002). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) and Latin American Faculty for Social Studies (FLACSO)

Work experience

2008 Constituent Assembly of Ecuador. Occupation: Assistant of the Social Justice and Plurality Comission, Montecristi

Publications

• Célleri, D.; Chávez, H. E. (2008): „Assemblée constituante, un processus contradictoire pour un résultat schizophrène“, in: France Amérique Latine Magazine. Summary of the unpublished manuscript: „Asamblea Constituyente, un proceso Constituyente con resultados contradictorios“.