Carolina Hormaza

Carolina Hormaza is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Bielefeld (Germany) and a member of the Center for Inter-American Studies. In her doctoral thesis, Carolina analyzes the ideas of German geography on agrarian colonization in Latin America between 1950 and 1970. Her research interests include the global history of science and its intertwining with the agrarian history of Latin America in the 20th century. Carolina is spokesperson since June 2022 of the young researchers group of the German Association for Latin American Research ADLAF. Carolina has also done research on the restoration of the Dignity of Victims in Colombia. She has been a researcher in institutions of historical memory and advisor in reparation programs for victims in the framework of the implementation of the peace agreement in Colombia.

Universität Bielefeld

ichormazaj@uni-bielefeld.de

Project

The last Länderkundler in the Tropics: German geography on agrarian colonization in Latin America from 1947 to 1975.

The project analyzes how the last generation of regional geographers (Länderkundler) reformulated classical concepts of German geography to explain agrarian colonization in Latin America between 1945 and 1970.

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