Ursula Johanna Regehr
Universität Bern
Institut für Sozialanthropologie
desiguALdades.net: Visiting Doctoral Researcher (01/08/2010 - 31/01/2011)
CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland
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Academic Career:
| Since 08/2010 | Doctoral Researcher desiguALdades.net, Berlin, Germany |
| Since 2007 | Member of the editorial team of “Tsantsa”, Journal of the “Schweizerische Ethnologische Gesellschaft” |
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08/2005 – 01/2010 |
Academic assistant at the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern |
| 01/2004 – 05/2005 | Scholarshipholder of a “Stipendium für angehende Forschende” of the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Theodor Engelmann Stiftung and the Janggen-Pöhn-Stiftung |
| Since 10/2003 | Doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Faculty of Philosophy and History |
| 10/1997 – 07/2002 | Licentiata philosophiae in Ethnology and Geography at the University of Basel, Faculty of Philosophy and History |
Teaching Experience:
| 2008 / 2009 |
„Einführung in die Sozialanthropologie” (Introduction to Social Anthropology), University of Bern
„Übung zur Geschichte sozial- und kulturanthropologischer Theorien” (Tutorial: History and Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology), University of Bern |
| 2007 / 2008 |
„Einführung in die Sozialanthropologie” (Introduction to Social Anthropology), University of Bern
„Amazonien – Traurige Tropen?” (Amazonia – Tristes Tropiques?), University of Bern |
| 2006 / 2007 |
„Systematikübung” (Tutorial: Systematics), University of Bern
“Indigene Völker und Nationalstaat in Paraguay” (Indigenous people and nation state in Paraguay), University of Bern |
| 2005 / 2006 | „Systematikübung” (Tutorial: Systematics), University of Bern |
Segregated and Split Society: Social and Political Dimensions of Inequality in the Chaco
This project focuses on group-based inequalities in the Gran Chaco (Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia). For the short-term scholarship for doctoral students of desiguALdades.net. I propose to explore the socio-political aspect of inequality. My central research issues concerns: (1) the construction of cultural differences and social hierarchies; (2) the persistence of unequal distribution of power between different cultural groups and their asymmetric access to public and political institutions; and (3) social policies of development and poverty reduction deployed with international funds by local NGOs and their long-term effects. The production and reproduction of enduring political inequalities in the Chaco region will be studied in the context of multiple processes of colonization and nation-building as well as under the influence of current trans-regional dynamics of democratization and the global expansion of market-oriented economy.
Publications:
Ursula Regehr 2006: Zur Konstruktion von Indigenität. Soziale Praxis und gesellschaftliche Machtstrukturen im paraguayischen Chaco. Tsantsa, 11:115-118.
Ursula Regehr y Verena Regehr (comp.) 2004: Cayin ô Clim Lhavos. Nosotros, gente de Cayin ô Clim. Catálogo de la exposición de dibujos de Asque Eurides Modesto Gómez, Jorge Carema, Osvaldo Pitoe. Asunción: Imprenta Q R.
Presentations:
09.05.2010:
„Der asymmetrische Blick – die Ethnographie des Chaco als Spiegel gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit” (An asymmetric perspective. The ethnography of the Chaco as mirror of social inequality), Conference of the Association „Indiamus“, Museum der Kulturen Basel
21.10.2009:
“Dimensionen sozialer Ungleichheit im Chaco. Ansätze und Modelle zur Analyse und Erklärung“ (Dimensions of social inequality in the Chaco. Approaches and models for analysis and explanation), Doctoral Group at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
28.11.2008:
“Subaltern Studies in Latin America“, Seminar of Subaltern Studies, University of Zürich and University of Bern
14.05.2008:
“Die Persistenz von Ungleichheit im Chaco: ökonomische und politische Grundlagen” (The persistence of inequality in the Chaco: economic and political bases), Colloquium at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
14.06.2007:
“From genocidal massacres to structural violence. Internal colonialism and social relations in the Paraguayan Chaco”, Workshop on Genocide denial in legal and public discourse, Karman Center, University of Bern
30.01.2007:
„Die soziale Konstruktion von Ungleichheit und Hierarchie im Chaco” (The social construction of inequality and hierarchy in the Chaco), Colloquium at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
05.04.2006:
“Feldforschungsbericht: Indigene und Siedler im Kontext multipler Kolonisierungsprozesse im paraguayischen Chaco” (Fieldwork report: indigenous people and settlers in the context of multiple processes of colonization in the Paraguayan Chaco), Colloquium at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
