Juan Ricardo Aparicio
Associate Professor
Universidad de los Andes
| Location | Bogota, Colombia |
| Gender and Title | Male |
| japarici@uniandes.edu.co | |
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| Website | https://cienciassociales.uniandes.edu.co/profesores/juan-ricardo-aparicio/ |
| Bio | I am an associate professor in the Department of Languages and Culture at the University of the Andes, where I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on critical theory in the Social Sciences, the conceptual genealogies of Cultural Studies, and the traditions of Latin American critical thought. Linked to these theoretical frameworks are my research interests in humanitarian governance, development, social movements, the state, and the post-agreement era in Colombia. My ethnographic research is conducted in locations where experiences of trauma, forced displacement, and massacres intersect with complex humanitarian interventions, as well as with new frontiers of capital accumulation and reterritorialization through extractive industries such as mining and agribusiness. These regions include Mapiripán, Montes de María, Sumapaz, and Urabá. My work engages theoretical debates with ethnographic inquiry into everyday life, focusing on issues of subjectivity, affect, and the question of the common. I was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Humanitarian Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, from August 2023 to 2024. I am also a member of the Board of the International Humanitarian Studies Association for the 2023-2026 term, a member of the editorial board of the journal Cultural Studies, and previously served as the representative for Spanish-speaking Latin America in the Cultural Studies Association. I have received research grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for anthropological research and from the Ford Foundation for Predissertation Research. Among my recent publications is the co-authored article with Rodrigo Mena-Fluhmann, “No hay Desastres Naturales”: Debates y propuestas para el diseño crítico de las acciones humanitarias” en la Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (2025) and the co-authored article with Laura Macías, “Hurricanes, Reconstruction, and Resistance: Thinking Through Vulnerability in the Caribbean,” in Disasters (2025). |
Expertise
| Expertise | Country | Affiliation | Local |
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| Cultural anthropology | Colombia |
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| Researcher on IDPs and humanitarian governance in Colombia. | |||