Main Seminar: Bolivia: The End Of A Cycle, With Tensions As Unresolved As Ever

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): John Crabtree, LAC and José Alejandro Peres-Cajías, Universidad de Barcelona

John Crabtree is a Research Associate at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford where for several years he has run a course on the Politics of the Andean Countries. He has written widely on this subject, most recently a co-authored book (with Francisco Durand and Jonas Wolff) 'Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru in Comparison' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023). He is currently co-editing (with Gonzalo Delgado) 'Mining and the Peruvian State: Social and Environmental Sustainability' (Routledge, forthcoming). He has a masters degree from the University of Liverpool and a PhD from Oxford Brookes University.

José Peres-Cajias is an Assistant Professor at the Economic History Department, University of Barcelona. Previously, he was a full-time professor at the School of Production and Competitiveness (Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo”). He received a Ph.D. (Cum Laude) in Economic History from the University of Barcelona in 2013 for a thesis on the evolution of Bolivian Public Finances from 1882 to 2010. His research aims at understanding the long-term economic development of developing regions by looking at the interplay of institutions, natural resources and trade. He published different articles in international journals, nine books and contributed to several chapters of books published by international and Bolivian publishers. He is now leading a project on state capacity in Latin America at the subnational level.