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Institut d'études européennes (bureau R41.4.101)
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 39
1050 Bruxelles
Belgique
Adresse postale
Université libre de Bruxelles
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 172/01
1050 Bruxelles
Belgique
Dr. José Antonio Gutiérrez is post-doctoral researcher at REPI. He has experience working on conflict, illegal economies, and contentious politics, with a particular expertise in Colombia. He has also worked on gender, rural research and sustainability. He has frequently worked in multinational and transdisciplinary teams in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. He has worked as researcher in two H2020 projects: PRUV -Preparedeness and Resilience to Address Urban Vulnerability (Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 691060) as researcher with University College Dublin, and Ploutos -Data Driven Sustainable Agri-Food Chains (grant agreement No. 101000594), as post-doctoral researcher with Teagasc, the agriculture and food development authority of Ireland. At present, he is exploring dynamics of organised violence in post peace agreement societies.
He defended his PhD thesis on “Insurgent Institutions: Refractory communities, armed insurgency and institution-building in the Colombian conflict” in January 2019, at University College Dublin. His ethnographic research explores social fabric and institution-building in insurgency controlled areas. His doctoral research was kindly funded by the Andrew Grene Scholarship of the Irish Research Council and the Conflict Resolution Unit of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Government of Ireland (GOIPG/2015/2479). In 2014 he was research assistant on the Historical Commission of the Conflict and its Victims in Colombia, in the context of the peace negotiations between the FARC-EP rebels and the Government of Colombia. He has lectured in Colombia (USTA) and Ireland (UCD, TCD).
He is a member of the European Society for Rural Sociology, the Marie Curie Alumni Association, and of the International Transformative Justice Network. He is Research Fellow of the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction of the Dublin City University (IICRR, DCU) and is associated to the Colombian think tank Centro de Investigación y Acción para la Paz y los Derechos Humanos (CIPADH).
- November 2020-June 2022: Teagasc Post Doctoral Research Fellow, H2020 Ploutos project– Data Driven Sustainable Agri-Food Chains.
-January 2020- : Lecturer, School of Law, Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia).
-January 2017-December 2019: Researcher, H2020 PRUV project -Preparedness and Resilience to Address Urban Vulnerability.
-September 2015-August 2017: Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin.
-September 2014-December 2014: Assistant Researcher at Historical Commission on the Conflict and its Victims, Colombia.
-September 2007-August 2014: Research and Development Officer, Latin American Solidarity Centre (Dublin)
Rural Studies, Conflict Studies, Rebel Governance, Illegal Economies, Transitional Justice, Transformative Justice, Sustainability Studies, Gender Studies.
Localisation
Institut d'études européennes (bureau R41.4.104)
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 39
1050 Bruxelles
Belgique
Adresse postale
Université libre de Bruxelles
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 172/01
1050 Bruxelles
Belgique
Journal Articles
- “¿Y si hubieran cumplido? Las drogas ilegales y el acuerdo de paz más allá de los (obvios) incumplimientos”, Análisis Político, 103: 144-166. https://doi.org/10.15446/anpol.v34n103.102172
- “The unspoken red-line in Colombia: gender re-ordering of women ex-combatants and the transformative peace agenda”, Cooperation and Conflict, co-authored with Emma Murphy (online). https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367221099085
- “Tillyian process without a Tillyian effect: Criminalised economies and State-building in the Colombian conflict”, Journal of Political Power, 15(1): 29-55, co-authored with Estefanía Ciro. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2031109
- “State, Political Power and Criminality in Civil War –Revisiting Old Debates from Different Angles”, Journal of Political Power, 15(1): 1-13, introduction to special issue, co-authored with Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2036050
- “Creating a Rainbow for Sustainability: the Case of Sustainable Beef”, Sustainability, 14(8): 4446, co-authored with Richard Lynch, Maeve Henchion and John Hyland. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14084446
- “Rebel governance as State-building? Discussing the FARC-EP’s governance practices in Southern Colombia”, Participazione e Conflitto, 15(1): 17-36. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v15i1p17
- “Eating, Shitting and Shooting: a Scatological and Culinary Approximation to the Daily Lives of Rebels”, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (published online) https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2021.1886432
- “The counter-insurgent paradox. How the FARC-EP successfully subverted counter-insurgent institutions in Colombia”, Small Wars & Insurgencies (published online) https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2020.1797345
- “Rebels-turned-narcos? The FARC-EP’s political involvement in Colombia’s cocaine economy”, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 44(1): 26-51, co-authored with Frances Thomson https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1793456
- “Whatever we have, we owe it to coca’. Insights on armed conflict and the coca economy from Argelia, Colombia”, International Journal of Drug Policy, 89, March 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103068
- “Towards a New Phase of Guerrilla Warfare in Colombia? The Reformation of the FARC-EP in Perspective”, Latin American Perspectives, 47(5): 227-244, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X20939118
- “A Walk with the Lads’: Masculinities’ Perspectives, Gender Dynamics and Resilience in Soacha, Colombia”, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (published online) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101652
- “The Nation Against the State: the Irish Question and Britain-based Anarchists in the Age of Empire”, Nations and Nationalism, 26(3): 611-627, 2019, co-authored with Federico Ferretti https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12584
- “What do Rebels do when they Rule?”, Journal of Political Power, 11(1): 125-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2018.1433762
- “Participatory Action Research (PAR) and the Colombian Peasant Reserve Zones: The Legacy of Orlando Fals Borda”, Policy & Practice: a Development Education Review, Issue 22, Spring 2016
- “Revolutions of the Possible: Understanding the Rise (and Crisis) of the New Latin American Left”, Policy & Practice: a Development Education Review, Issue 22, Spring 2016 (co-authored with Renán Vega Cantor)
- “Exploring the problems of Solidarity”, Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 6(2): 26-34, 2014 (co-authored with Hilary Darcy and David Landy)
- “Conference Review. ‘International Solidarity: Practices, Problems, Possibilities’, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, 6 December 2013”, Irish Journal of Sociology, 22(2), November 2014 (co-authored with David Landy, Hilary Darcy and Joanna Orr) https://doi.org/10.7227/IJS.22.2.11
Books
- “Nuevas Tendencias del Derecho: la Justicia Transformativa”, a book on transformative justice and its potential in post-peace agreement Colombia, co-authored with Eric Hoddy & Daire McGill, Universidad Santo Tomás: Medellín, 2022 (forthcoming)
- “Siempre de Pie, Nunca Rendidos” A Social History of the Sugar Cane Cutters in Colombia, co-authored with Renán Vega Cantor, Teoría & Praxis and Desde Abajo: Bogotá, 2019.
- “Problemas e Possibilidades do Anarquismo”, Faisca: Sao Paulo, 2011
- “Los Orígenes Libertarios del Primero de Mayo, de Chicago a América Latina (1886-1930)” Quimantú: Santiago de Chile, 2010 (Editor)
Book Reviews
- “Clientelistic Warfare”, by Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín. Journal of Political Power, 15(1): 183-188, https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2033101.
- “Workers & Nationalism. Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890–1918”, by Jakub S. Benes. Nations and Nationalism, 24(4), 2018 https://doi-org.ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/10.1111/nana.12467
- “Socio-Economic Rights from Below: Social Contestation and Constitutionalism in Ireland (1848–2016)” by Thomas Murray. Journal of Political Power, 10(2), 2017 https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2017.1336343
- “Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes”, by Ananda Cohen Suarez. Visual Studies, 32(3), 2017 https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2017.1320094
- “Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti”, by Jeb Sprague. Social Movement Studies, 15(4), 2016. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2015.1082467
- “Soapbox rebellion. The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909–1916” by Matthew May. Social Movement Studies, 15(3), 2016 https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2015.1082468
- “Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy” by Andrew Sanders. Irish Journal of Sociology, 24(1), 2016 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.7227/IJS.0016e
- “The Anglo-Irish Agreement, Re-thinking its Legacy”, Arthur Aughey and Cathy Gormley-Heenan. Irish Journal of Sociology, 24(1), 2016 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.7227/IJS.0016d
- “Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture, 1910–1950”, by Lindsay J. Twa. Visual Studies, 31(4), 2016 https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2015.1123954
- “FARC. The Longest Insurgency”, by Garry Leech. Social Movement Studies, 14(4), 2015. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2014.971737
Development Education Resources
- “Experiencias de construcción de resiliencia en Altos de la Florida, Soacha (Colombia)”, Bogotá: Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados, 2019.
- “Priceless Land: Forced Displacement and Land Restitution in Colombia from an Irish and International Perspective”, LASC: Dublin, 2014 (co-written with Karen Jeffares)
- “Irish Investment in Latin America”, LASC: Dublin, 2010
- “Recipe for Disaster –Who’s Cooking the Global Meal” LASC: Dublin, 2010