Team

Anke Kaulard holds a PhD in sociology and teaches in the Department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She is a former fellow of the trAndeS program of the PUCP and the Free University of Berlin with a focus on inequalities and sustainable development in the Andean region. Since 2003 she has been working on action-research issues, previously in development cooperation projects and in technical assistance to subnational governments in Peru. She is a researcher at the Center for Sociological, Economic, Political and Anthropological Research - CISEPA. Her research focuses on subnational analysis of state-society relations, intersectional inequalities and local development. She works with cooperatives, producer associations and indigenous peoples of the Amazon to make visible their demands for climate, economic and social justice.

Natalia Caniguan is a social anthropologist from the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano and holds a master's degree in Local and Regional Human Development from the Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She is a researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies (CIIR). From 2017 to 2022, she served as the director of the Institute of Indigenous and Intercultural Studies at the Universidad de La Frontera. She is currently the president of the College of Anthropologists of Chile (2023-2025). Her work focuses on public policy in intercultural contexts, particularly on topics such as indigenous municipalities and mayors, using ethnography of the state as a primary methodology. She has also conducted research in education, health, and tourism in intercultural territories, emphasizing the role of the state and public policies. Her notable publications include "Recapitulating 2021: Covid, Constituent Convention, and State of Emergency in Wallmapu" (Anuario del Conflicto Social 13, 2022); "Walking and Telling the Territory: Reclaiming Mapuche Planning Through Storytelling and Land-Based Methodologies" (with M. Ugarte et al., Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal 6(4-6), 2022); "Sociopolitical constructions of territory" (CUHSO 30(2), 2021); and "Indigenous territorial movement and local governments" (Antropologías del Sur 6(11), 63-78, 2019).