E-Mail: j.m.schramm(at)uni-koeln.de

Phone: 0049-(0)-221-470-5477

Research project

Working Title - Social perception of natural resources and local identity at the Salar de Uyuni

Bolivia's economic, political and social development was and is widely influenced by the resource wealth of the country that holds both opportunities for development as well as (ecological) risks and a high potential for conflict. The repeated resource nationalism carried out by the Morales government answered the long-term experience with a neoliberal influenced resource policy and meets the demands of the majority of the population. This repossession is closely linked with the social question in Bolivia, an entanglement, which in terms of Othering coincides with processes of identity formation and changes the social perception of natural resources. In the frame of the research project this connection is transferred to the local level and investigated - from a historical perspective - in the region around the Salar de Uyuni in the south west of the country. The concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and belonging are used to grasp change, negotiation processes and the human-environment relationship at the Salar.

Education

2001-2008 Diploma in Latin American Area Studies at the University of Cologne

2000-2001 Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth

Scientific experience

since 2010 Research associate (Phd) at the Research Network for Latin America – Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging at the University of Cologne.

2004-2005 Tutor at the Institute for Roman Studies at the University of Cologne

Work experience

2009-2010 Project Assistant Emergency Response Teams at the Arbeiter Samariter Bund Köln

Stay abroad

2010 Teamleader in Fond Parisien, Haiti

2009 Subteamleader in Pasie Laweh, Sumatra

2001 Volontary Work in San Andrés, Guatemala