Carolina Hormaza

Carolina Hormaza is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Ibero-American History, and a member of the Center for Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University. She finished her PhD in History at Bielefeld University, with a thesis on German geographical knowledge production on agrarian colonisation in Latin America in the mid-20th century. Her research interests include global history, particularly the continuities of German colonialism in development ideas, and its entanglements with Latin American agrarian and environmental history. Carolina has also researched agrarian history and armed conflict in Colombia throughout the 20th century, as a researcher at the Colombia Historical Memory Center and at the German Agency for International Cooperation, among other institutions.

Universität Bielefeld

ichormazaj@uni-bielefeld.de

Project

Regionalising the Tropics: German geographers and the Knowledge Production on Agrarian Colonisation in Latin America in the mid-20th Century

Publications

Rios Oyola, Sandra M., and Carolina Hormaza. “The role of civil servants in the dignification of victims in Meta, Colombia”. Third World Quarterly 44, núm. 4 (2023): 795-813.

Hormaza, Carolina. “Fronteras políticas y límites naturales. El espacio vital y el espacio natural en los estudios sobre la Amazonía andina colombiana del geógrafo Ernesto Guhl Nimtz.” In La Amazonía andina en el siglo XXI : neoextractivismos, fronteras y resistencias, (Eds.) María Fernanda López and Fernando García, 1st ed., 29–55. CLACSO, 2024. https://doi.org/10.54871/ca24as21

Hormaza, Carolina. “La fotointerpretación y la geografía alemana sobre la colonización agraria en Costa Rica 1958-1968” in Allevi, José Ignacio y Rinke, Stefan. (Eds.). Saberes globales y expertos locales en América Latina en el siglo XX. Darmstatd: Wbg Academic. (In print)

Hormaza, Carolina; Urquijo, M. “Land Use in the Amazon from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950: The Transformation of the Amazonian Territory into Capital and its Incorporation into the Global Market.” In López Sandoval, M. F., Pádua, J. A., & Zarrilli, A. G. (eds.) 2024. Land Use—Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I. (Vol. I, pp. 231–257) Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag

Ciesielski, Markus, and Carolina Hormaza. “Shifting Perceptions or Shifting Attention? The Local Press, Venezuelan Migration, and Hostile Perceptions in Colombia.” Estudios Sobre El Mensaje Periodistico 30, no. 1 (2024).
https://search.ebscohost.com/&jrnl=11341629&AN=176370163&crl=c.

Hormaza, Carolina “Ten years of young protest in Colombia. The current movement and its long history.” [original: “Zehn Jahre junger Protest in Kolumbien. Die aktuelle Bewegung hat eine lange Vorgeschichte.”] Co-author Markus Ciesielski, ILA 448, 09-2021, reprint in: Beuler-Extradienst (online) https://extradienst.net/2021/09/21/zehn-jahre-junger-protest/

Hormaza, Carolina “La reforma agraria como ejercicio de planificación: experiencias de los proyectos de colonización del INCORA en el Caquetá entre 1964-1974.” Tesis de maestría. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá. 2016

Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica, La tierra no basta. Colonización, baldíos, conflicto y organizaciones sociales en el Caquetá, CNMH, Bogotá. 2017

Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica, Tierras y conflictos rurales. Historia, políticas agrarias y protagonistas, CNMH, Bogotá. 2016

Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica, Petróleo, coca, despojo territorial y organización social en Putumayo, CNMH, Bogotá. 2015