Alberto G. Florez-Malagon
Adjunct Research Professor
| Degrees: | B.A. (Universidad de los Andes); M.A. (State University of New York); PhD (State University of New York) |
| Email: | Alberto.Florez-Malagon@uottawa.ca |
| Website: | University of Ottawa Faculty Page |
Alberto Flórez-Malagón holds a Ph.D. in History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Before his appointment with the University of Ottawa he was a Senior Program Officer in the Program of Peace, Conflict and Development at the International Development Research Center, IDRC, in Ottawa. He worked in Colombia as an associate professor at Javeriana and Los Andes universities, as well as for the Colombian Institute for Development of Science and Technology (COLCIENCIAS) where he directed the National Social Sciences and Humanities Program. He was a visiting fellow and lecturer at Laval, Concordia and McGill universities. He has published several books and articles on local dynamics of conflict, rural studies, environmental history, historiography, cultures of food, cultural studies and transdisciplinarity in Latin America. His current research interest revolves around global, cultural, and power issues, mainly the strategies for the historical construction of ideologies and identities with emphasis in Latin America.
Publications
Books or Monographs Authored
Una isla en un mar de sangre. El Valle de Ubaté durante la Violencia (Centros Editorial Javeriano-CEJA/La Carreta Editores, 2005), 253 pp.
El campo de la historia ambiental y las perspectivas para su desarrollo en Colombia (IDEADE, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2000), 122 pp.
“Ecología y Política Internacional. El Caso Colombiano”(Ecology and International Politics. The Colombian Case), (co-author Luis Guillermo Baptiste), Documentos Ocasionales. (Bogotá: Centro de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de los Andes, 1990)
Books edited
El poder de la carne: Historias de ganaderías en la primera mitad del siglo XX en Colombia (The power of meat. Livestock Histories in Colombia in the First Part of The Twentieth Century), editor (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2008). Introduction and Chapters III, IV and VIII.
Pensamiento colombiano en el siglo XX, with Santiago Castro, Guillermo Hoyos and Carmen Millán, eds., Vol. 1. (Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2007). Introduction.
Desafíos de la transdisciplinariedad (Challenges of Transdisciplinarity) with Carmen Millán, editors., (Bogotá: CEJA, 2002) Introduction and Chapter VIII.
Social Sciences and Transdisciplinarity: Latin American and Canadian Experiences. Collected Papers, with Rosalind Boyd, eds. (Montreal: CDAS, McGill University, 1999) Introduction and Chapter IV.
Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Cinema and Social Differentiation: the Impact of Mexican Films in Bogotá, Colombia, 1940-1970”, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 39(2), July 2014, 244-261.
“From Alfaro to the Present, what has actually changed? “/“De Alfaro a la actualidad, Qué ha cambiado en realidad?” (Bilingual edition) Línea Sur. Foreign Policy Review 4 (January/April 2013), 223-233. URL: http://cancilleria.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/LineaSur-4.pdf.
Co-author Ingrid Bolívar, “Cultura y poder: El consumo de carne bovina en Colombia” in Nómadas 22 (April 2005) , 174-85
Co-author Ingrid Bolívar, “La investigación sobre la violencia: categorías, preguntas y tipo de conocimiento” in Revista de Estudios Sociales 17 (February 2004), 32-41
La disciplina histórica en Latinoamérica. Una historia con los estudios culturales” in Revista de Estudios Sociales 12 (June 2002), 66-71
“Crisis disciplinar y estudios culturales” (Disciplinary Crisis and Cultural Studies) in Colombia. Ciencia y Tecnología, Colciencias 19:4 (October – December 2001), 3-8
“La historia en su encerramiento. Una visión iconoclasta al quehacer histórico en Colombia” in Fronteras, Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History, 5 (2000), 9-34
“Fuerzas Mercenarias en las Luchas de Independencia del Siglo XIX” in Memoria y Sociedad, Department of History, Javeriana University, 4:8 (September 2000), 89-118
“An Island in a Sea of Blood. The Ubaté Valley during La Violencia, 1948-1958” in Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Canada, 23: 45 (Fall, 1998), 27-54
“Antropología Histórica, Antrohistoria,…?” in Memoria y Sociedad. Department of History, Javeriana University, 3:5 (August 1998), 147-60
“El Proceso de Paz del Período Betancur, 1982-1986” Memoria y Sociedad. Department of History, Javeriana University, 2:3 (February 1997), 35-56
“La Historia Ambiental: Hacia una ubicación disciplinar” in Ambiente y Desarrollo, Institute of Environmental Studies for Development, IDEADE, Javeriana University, 4:6-7 (May, 1996), 99-122.
“De Nuevo la Neutralidad Valorativa? (Free value research, again?)” in Cuadernos de Desarrollo Rural, Institute of Rural Studies, Javeriana University, 32 (1994), 71-3
“Elementos para una Nueva Historiografía Agraria. La Obra de James Scott” (Elements for a New Agrarian Historiography: the Writings of James Scott) in Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, National University of Colombia, 21 (April, 1993), 139-56
“Algunos problemas acerca del Manejo Internacionalizado del Ambiente en el Tercer Mundo” (Some Limitations for an Internationalized Environmental Management of the Third World) with Luis Fernando Medina, Cuadernos de Agroindustria y Economía Rural. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Instituto de Estudios Rurales, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 28 (1992), 79-88
“La Escuela de la Economía Moral. Algunas de sus Limitaciones para el Análisis de lo Político en lo Campesino” (The Moral Economy School. Its Limitations for the Study of Pesantries) in Cuadernos de Agroindustria y Economía Rural. Faculty of Economics, Unit of Rural Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 26 (1991), 133-50
Honours
2006 Recipient of the “Divisa de Honor Javeriana,” (Universidad Javeriana Honour Award), Javeriana University.
2003 Winner of the Florestán Fernández Award for Virtual Teaching (with Santiago Castro and Carmen Millán). Latin American Social Sciences Council, CLACSO, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2002 Nominated as Jury of the National Prize of Sciences. Arturo Angel Escobar Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia.
1995-6 Elected Member of the Directive Board. Colombian Association of Historians, Bogotá, Colombia.
Scholarly Activities and Service
2012-2013 Program Track Coordinator. Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, CALACS, 2013, Carleton University, Ottawa, Fall 2012-Winter 2013.
2012- 2013 Book Review Editor, Histoire sociale/Social History Journal, Fall 2012-Winter 2013.
2010 Jury. Call for submissions to roundtable on “Education and health: public policy, local projects an social development in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.” Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), Ottawa, Canada.
2009 Jury. Call for submissions to grant competition on “Gangs and Violence in Central America.” International development Research Centre, IDRC, Ottawa, Canada
2008-present Member of the Editorial Committee, Journal Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura. Department of History. Colombian National University.
2004-2005 International Evaluator. Competition for Grants for the Development of Research. National Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama
2000- 2006 Member of the Editorial Committee, Journal Fronteras. Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History
2002-2004 Member of the International Scientific Committee. ECOS-NORD Program for the Scientific Cooperation between France and Colombia
1997-1999 Member of the Executive Committee. Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
1997-1999 McGill University: Visiting Fellow, Center for Developing Area Studies, CDAS.
Organizer of the Workshop “Social Sciences and Transdisciplinarity. Latin American and Canadian Experiences”, financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, SSHRC.
1995-1999 Consultant, Colombian Institute for Higher Education Development, ICFES. Bogotá and Barranquilla. Evaluation of academic programs.
1995-1996 Director, Journal Memoria y Sociedad. Department of History. Javeriana University.
1995-1996 Member of the Editorial Committee, Journal Universitas Humanística. Faculty of Social Sciences. Javeriana University.
1990-1993 Member of the Editorial Committee, Journal Historia Crítica. Department of History. Andes University.
1991 Consultant, Center for Aesthetic Researcher, Andes University and ICFES. Project: “Data Base for a History of the Chocó Region”.
1989-1990 Researcher, Organization of American States and Andes University. Center for International Studies (CEI). Project: “Series on International Relations”.