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Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Schilling, Janpeter; Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut; Flemmer, Riccarda and Rebecca Froese (2020, in press): 'A Political Ecology Perspective on Resource Extraction and Human Security in Kenya, Bolivia and Peru'; The Extractive Industries and Society. (Link)

  • Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut and Riccarda Flemmer (2020): ‘Mobilising Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) from Below: A Typology of Indigenous Peoples’ Agency.‘ International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 27: 291–313. (Link)

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (2018): ‘Stuck in the Middle. Indigenous Interpreters and the Politics of Vernacularizing Prior Consultations in Peru’; Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 23 (3): 521–40. (Link)

  • Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut; Flemmer, Riccarda and Anna Hujber (2018): ‘Contesting the Hydrocarbon Frontiers: De-Politicizing State Strategies and Local Responses in Peru (2007–2012)’; World Development, 108: 74–85. (Open Access)

  • Flemmer, Riccarda and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor (2016): ‘Unfulfilled promises of the consultation approach: the limitations to effective indigenous participation in Bolivia’s and Peru’s extractive in-dustries’; Third World Quarterly 37 (1): 172-188. (Link)

  • Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut and Riccarda Flemmer (2015): ‘Conflict Transformation through Prior Consultation? Lessons from Peru’; Journal of Latin American Studies 47 (4): 811-839. (Link)

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (2015): ‘Lecciones de los primeros procesos de la consulta previa en el sector de hidrocarburos en Perú’; Iberoamericana, 15 (58): 166-171. (Open Access).


Articles and Contributions in Edited Volumes

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (In Press): ‘Luchas de pueblos indígenas, académicos y las “políticas de la traducción”.’ In El diálogo de saberes y las prácticas jurídicas militantes en América Latina, edited by Orlando Aragón Andrade, under contract with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Ediciones.

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (2019): ‘Prior Consultation as a Door Opener: Frontier Negotia-tions, Grassroots Contestation, and New Intercultural Politics in Peru.’ In The Prior Consultation of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: Inside the Implementation Gap, edited by Claire Wright and Alexandra Tomaselli, Routledge Studies in Development and Society. London: Routledge, 106–18. (Link)

  • Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut; Flemmer, Riccarda (2013): ‘Why is Prior Consultation Not Yet an Effective Tool for Conflict Resolution? The Case of Peru’, GIGA Working Paper No 220, April 2013, Hamburg. (Open Access)

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (2012) ‘Die Consulta Previa in Peru. Zur umkämpften Implementierung des Konsultationsrechts unter Alan García (2006–2011)’, Selected Student Paper 37, Aachen: Institut für Politische Wissenschaft der RWTH Aachen, award with the Springorum-Denkmünze 2013. (Open Access)


Editorships

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (ed., 2018): ‘The Laws of Extraction – Environmental Rights and Legal Regulations in Struggles over Natural Resources in the Americas: An Introduction’ as guest editor of fiar – Forum for inter-american research of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS), 11 (3): 7–15. (Open Access)

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (ed., 2018): ‘Entrevistas con líderes indígenas: ¿Mecanismos participativos para lograr justicia ambiental y formas democráticas de la gobernanza de recursos naturales?’ In Special Issue ‘The Laws of Extraction/ Las leyes de la extracción’ of fiar – forum for inter-american research of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS), 11 (3): 62–70. (Open Access)


Miscellaneous

  • Titttor, Anne and Riccarda Flemmer (2016): Educational material (Unterrichtsmaterial für die Sekundarstufe II), Dossier: ‘Ressourcenkonflikte im Nord-Süd Kontext und Rohstoffreichtum in Lateinamerika’; Bielefeld: kipu-Verlag. (Link)


Policy advice

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (2016): ‘Peru: Politökonomische Kurzanalyse 2016 (PÖK)’, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development/ Bundesministerium für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (BMZ).

  • Schilling-Vacalfor, Almut and Riccarda Flemmer (2015): ‘Rohstoffabbau in Lateinamerika: Fehlende Bürgerbeteiligung schürt Konflikte’; GIGA Focus Lateinamerika, 05/2015, GIGA: Hamburg. (Link)

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (2015): ‘Peru: Krisenfrühwarnung für 2016 (KIK)’, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development/ Bundesministerium für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (BMZ).

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (2014): ‘Peru: Krisenfrühwarnung für 2015 (KIK)”, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development/ Bundesministerium für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (BMZ).

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (2013): ‘Peru: Krisenfrühwarnung für 2014 (KIK)”, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development/ Bundesministerium für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (BMZ).

  • Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut and Riccarda Flemmer (2013): ‘Das Recht auf vorherige Konsultationen: Rechtsnormen, Praxis und Konflikte in Lateinamerika’, Eschborn/Bonn: GIZ/BMZ.

  • Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut and Riccarda Flemmer (2013): ‘El derecho a la consulta previa: Normas jurídicas, prácticas y conflictos en América Latina’, Eschborn/Bonn: GIZ/BMZ.

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (2012): ‘Peru: Krisenfrühwarnung für 2013 (KIK)”, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development/ Bundesministerium für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (BMZ).


Blog and Media Contributions

  • Flemmer, Riccarda (2016): ‘The Wrong Kind of Right? Prior Consultation between Contestation and Meaninglessness in the Peruvian Amazon’, Voelkerrechtsblog.de. (Link)

  • Expert interview in Endt, Christian and Katrin Langhans, ‘Opfer der Gier. Nie wurden so viele Umweltaktivisten getötet wie 2015’, Süddeutsche Zeitung 20.06.2016 (Link).

  • Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut and Riccarda Flemmer (2015): ‘Das Recht auf freies, vorheriges und informiertes Ein-verständnis nicht isoliert sehen!’; Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker Österreich: Kampagnen-Heft Bedrohte Völker 02/2015, S. 6-7.

  • Interview in Peruvian TV channel Enlace Nacional 16.02.2015, ‘Research about irregularities in the implementation of prior consultation processes’ (Investigan irregularidades en procesos de consulta previa), First part and Second part.


Conferences and Talks

  • Postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Organisation und conference paper ‘Between words and worlds: Interpreting in ontological conflicts about forestry legislation and hydrocarbon extraction in the Peruvian Amazon’, part of the co-organised double session ‘Comparative perspective(s) on ontological conflicts in extractivism, conservation and development - Part 1 and 2’ (P003-F1/2) Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), Brighton, UK, 24–26 June 2020.

  • Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Conference paper ‘Between Words and Worlds: Indigenous Interpreters in the ‘Ontological Politics” of Prior Consultation about Hydrocarbon Extraction in Peruvian Amazonia’, part of the panel ‘One Amazonia, Many Ontologies: Interculturality and Crisis’, 38th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Guadalajara, Mexico, 13–16 May 2020.

  • Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Invited talk ‘The Contested Meaning of Prior Consultation and FPIC. Indigenous Grassroots and the Politics of Translating Rights in Struggles over Resources in the Peruvian Amazon”, Workshop ‘Politics of Indigenous Participatory Rights”, Prof. Martin Papillon, Université de Montréal, Canada 30 April–01 Mai 2020.

  • Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Conference paper ‘The Contested Meaning of Prior Consultation and FPIC. Indigenous Grassroots and the Politics of Translating Rights in Struggles over Resources in the Peruvian Amazon’, part of the panel ‘Lo que los conflictos extractivos producen y las ambivalencias de estas producciones’, Congress of the Society for Latin American Studies SLAS 2020 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 17–18 April 2020.

  • Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Conference paper ‘The Politics of Translation in Global IR: Lessons from Struggles over Recognition in Latin America’, part of the panel ‘The Contributions of IR Researchers from the Global South’, 61st ISA Annual Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii, 25–28 March 2020.

  • Participation in the Conference ‘Translation in/of World Politics: Language, Practices, Power’, Prof. Felix Berenskötter/ BISA Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group, SOAS University of London, UK, 17–18 January 2020.

  • Invited talk ‘Potentials and Pitfalls of Indigenous FPIC (Free, Prior And Informed Consent)’, part of the COP-Side Event ‘Telling the wood from the trees: Climate change and human rights in forest conservation’, UN Climate Change Conference, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, 18 June 2019.

  • Conference paper ‘The Contested Meaning of Prior Consultation and FPIC. Indigenous Grassroots and the Politics of Translating Rights in Struggles over Resources in the Peruvian Amazon’, part of the panel ‘The Politics of FPIC in Latin America: Comparative Perspectives’, 37th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Boston, USA, 24–27 May 2019.

  • Conference paper ‘Struggling for Alternatives to Resources Extraction:Indigenous Grassroots and Sustainable Development in the Kemito Ene Cooperative of the Asháninka in Peru’, trAndeS Spring School on ‘Social Inequalities and Sustainable Development: Local – National – Global tensions in Andean Territories’ in Lima, Peru, 29 October–02 November 2018.

  • Conference paper ‘Luchas de pueblos indígenas, académicos y las ‘políticas de la traducción’’, Primer foro de pensamiento crítico, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) in Buenos Aires, Argentinien, 19–23 November 2018.

  • Invited comment on ‘Grounded Normative Theory: Political Theorizing with Those Who Struggle’ by Brooke Ackerly, Luis Cabrera, Fonna Forman, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Chris Tenove, Antje Wiener; part of the panel ‘The Global IR Project’, General Conference European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in Hamburg, 22–25 August 2018.

  • Conference paper ‘Prior Consultation as an Opportunity: Frontier Negotiations, Grassroots Contestation, and Intercultural Politics in Peru’, part of the panel ‘What do contentious politics tell us about power? Resource frontiers and the reconfiguration of society’, 36th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Barcelona, Spain, 26–29 May 2018.

  • Invited talk ‘Indigenous Environmental Justice and Climate Change in Latin America’ with indigenous leader Ruth Buendía (Central Asháninka del Río Ene–CARE, Peru), Workshop, University of Stockholm, Sweden, 29 November–02 December 2017.

  • Invited lecutre ‘Derechos de Pueblos Indigenas y la Extracción de Recursos en la Amazonía Peruana’ with indigenous leader Ruth Buendía (Central Asháninka del Río Ene–CARE, Peru), Ciclo de conferencia de trAndeS en el semestre de invierno 2017/18: Desigualdades sociales y desarrollo sostenible en la región andina, Freie Universität Berlin, 23 November 2017.

  • Talk for activists and public ‘Indigene Selbstbestimmung und Fairer Handel – Ruth Buendía zu Gast in der W3’, academic co-presenter, interpreter und moderator, http://hamburgmalfair.de/, Werkstatt 3, Hamburg, 20 November 2017.

  • Organisation and conference paper ‘Missing the Middle in Prior Consultations: Cultural Differences and the Absence of Intermediaries in the Peruvian Amazon’, part of the co-organised panel ‘Localizing Prior Consultation in the Americas’, IV Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies ‘Human Rights in the Americas’ (IAS) in Santa Barbara, USA, 04–06 October 2016.

  • Organisation and conference paper ‘State strategies to undermine community resistance: Analyzing public participation about hydrocarbon projects in the Peruvian Amazon (2007-2012)’, with Dr Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and Anna Hujber, part of the co-organised panel ‘Conflict and Cooptation in Political Ecology. Discursive Strategies and Material Practices within Ecological Struggles in Latin America’, First Bianual Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN): Political Ecologies of Conflict, Capitalism and Contestation (PE-3C) in Wageningen, Netherlands, 07–09 July 2016.

  • Conference paper ‘Visibilizing the Roots of Socio-environmental Conflict: A Systematic Analysis of Contention about Hydrocarbon Projects in the Peruvian Amazon” (with Anna Hujber, Universität Hamburg), 34th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in New York, USA, 27–30 May 2016.

  • Conference paper ‘Lost in Translation: Complexities of Intercultural Dialogue and the Absence of Intermediaries in Prior Consultations in the Peruvian Amazon’, Seventh Multidisciplinary Meeting on Indigenous Peoples (EMPI VII) on ‘Indigenous Peoples & Inequalities: Between Socio-Economic Growth and Crisis’ in Mailand, Italy, 12–13 May 2016.

  • Invited talk ‘Unfullfilled Promises of the Consultation Approach. Limitations to Effective Participation in Peru‘s First Hydrocarbon Consultations’, Seminar ‘America indigena e stati nazionali: temi e problem’ of the International Americanist Association of Italy, Universität Padua, Italy, 11 May 2016.

  • Conference paper ‘The wrong kind of right? First state-led prior consultations in the Peruvian Amazon from the perspective of critical legal pluralism’, part of the co-organised panel ‘Prior Consultation in Latin America, Rechtsoziologentagung ‘Die Versprechungen des Rechts’, Berlin 09–11 September 2015.

  • Conference paper ‘Democratizing Natural Resource Governance: Exploring Pitfalls and Potential for Citizen Participation and Prior Consultation in Peru’ (with Ana Estefanía Kim, Ohio State University), Eighth Congress of the Latin-American Association for Political Science (ALACIP) in Lima, Peru 22–24 July 2015.

  • Organisation and talk final project workshop DSF project ‘Consultation, Participation and Conflict. A Comparative Study on Bolivia and Peru’ with international participants from academia, indigenous and state entities.

  • Organisation and conference paper ‘El derecho controversial de consulta previa. Una perspectiva desde el pluralismo jurídico crítico de las primeras consultas liderados por el Estado en la Amazonía Peruana’, part of the co-organised double panel ‘Mecanismos de participación en la gobernanza ambiental’, 33rd International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in San Juan, Puerto Rico 27–30 May 2015.

  • Conference paper ‘Room for diversity? First state-led prior consultations in the Peruvian Amazon from the perspective of critical legal pluralism’, Sixth Multidisciplinary Meeting On Indigenous Peoples (EMPI) on ‘Tensions and opportunities generated by the inter-relation between indigenous and non-indigenous views” in Gent, Belgium, 10–11 June 2015.

  • Conference paper ‘Challenging the Routine in Peru’s Hydrocarbon Sector – the Potential of Prior Consultations, Indigenous Mobilizations, and Conflicts for Change’, International Conference of the International Sociological Association in Yokohama, Japan, 13–17 July 2014.

  • Conference paper ‘Konfliktreiche Konsultationen – Die Praxis der ‚consulta previa‘ in den Öl- und Gassektoren Perus und Boliviens’ (with Dr. Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and Dr. Annegret Mähler), Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF) in Berlin, 26–28 June 2014.

  • Conference paper ‘Understanding the Consultation – Conflict Link. Lessons from Bolivia’s Gas and Oil Sector’ (with Dr. Almut Schilling-Vacaflor), part of the panel ‘Prior Consultations as a Solution to Socio-Environmental Conflicts?’, 32nd International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Chicago, USA, 21– 24 May 2014.

  • Organisation and participation in the international experts’ symposium on prior consultation, VIII. RELAJU Congress 24–26 October 2012 in Sucre, Bolivia, documentation of results for the German Development Agency (GIZ).