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Christiaan Beyers

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 07/22/2019 - 15:43
First Name
Christiaan
Last Name
Beyers
Email
chrisbeyers@trentu.ca
Phone
705-748-1011 ext. 5219
Location
Champlain College K3
Campus
Peterborough
Job Title
Associate Professor
Job Designation
Director of Trent in Ecuador Program
Accreditation
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (York), D.Phil. (Sussex)
Home Department
International Development Studies
Areas of Expertise
Latin America
Venezuela Migration
Urban Land Justice
Citizenship & Rights
Publications
Forthcoming. ‘Governing Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador: Regularization and Contested Authority in a Weak State’. (Co-authored with Joshua Low)

2025. ‘Of benches and rubble: The aesthetics of difficult memory in two South African museums’. Memory Studies, 18(4), 1082-1100.

2024. ‘The transnational politics of community: Intervention, solidarity, and resistance’, Espacios Transnacionales: Revista Latinoamericano-Europeo de Pensamiento y Acción Social, No. 21, pp. 16 - 28

2020. ‘Government Through Inaction: The Venezuelan Migratory Crisis in Ecuador.’ Journal of Latin American Studies, 52, 3 (pp. 633-657) (Co-authored with Esteban Nicholls).

2017. ‘Rights struggles over “development”: Land, shelter and citizenship in urban South Africa’. Canadian Journal of Development Studies 38 2 (pp. 234-252).

2017. ‘Preliminary Reflections on Irregular Migration and Assistance Policy in Ecuador’, Espacios Transnacionales: Revista Latinoamericano-Europeo de Pensamiento y Acción Social, 7, 4 (pp. 86-97).

2016. ‘Reconciling Competing Claims to Justice in Urban South Africa: Cato Manor and District Six’, in Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary African Studies, eds. Carolyn Bassett and Marlea Clarke. 34, 2 (pp. 203-220).

2015. ‘After Restitution: Community, Litigation, and Governance inn South African Land Reform’. African Affairs, 114, 56 2015. (pp. 432-454) (co-authored with Derick Fay)

2015. ‘Moral Subjectivity and Affective Deficit in the Transitional State: On Claiming Land in South Africa’. Social Analysis Special Issue: Affective States – Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions, eds. Mateusz Laszczkowski and Madeleine Reeves. 59, 4 (pp. 66-82)

2015. ‘Will and communality in Bakhtin, from a Nietzschean Perspective’. Studies in East European Thought, 67, 3-4 (pp. 145-164).
Areas of Research

Citizenship, rights and identity; Forced migration; Transitional justice; Memory and memorialization; Land struggles in South Africa; Migration in the Andes; Bakhtin.

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