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Prof. Dr. Gisela Canepa

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

Web: https://www.pucp.edu.pe/profesor/gisela-canepa-koch/

January 2015 - June 2015

Research Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Research Focus
  • ethnic, regional and national identity policies
  • the role of digital technologies in relation to knowledge policies
  • neoliberalism as a cultural regime
Education and professional career

Principal Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) in the area of Anthropology and coordinator of the Visual Anthropology Research Group (GIAV-PUCP). PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, Illinois (USA). She has obtained several research grants, such as the George Foster Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2014-2015).

Selected Publications

Canepa, G. E. (Editor) y Kummels, I. (Editor). (2018). Fotografía en América Latina. Imágenes e identidades a través del tiempo y el espacio. Lima: IEP

Canepa, G.E. 2017). Entre el museo e Internet: regímenes interpretativos y nuevos usos de la fotografía etnográ ca de la costa norte peruana, in: Transiciones Inciertas. Archivos, conocimientos y transformación digital en América Latina. (pp. 315 - 344). Buenos Aires/Berlin. Universidad de la Plata, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI, Instituto Ibero-Americano de Berlín).

Canepa, G. E.(2017). Cultural management and neoliberal governmentality: the participation of Perú in the Exhibition Inca-Kings of the Andes, in: Entangled Heritages. Postcolonial perspectives on the Uses of the Past in LatinAmerica. (pp. 87 - 108). New York. Routledge.

Canepa, G. E.(2017). Tecnologías del Duelo, in: Black Mirror. Porvenir y Tecnología. (pp. 127 - 142). Barcelona. Editorial UOC.

Canepa, G. E. (Editor) y Kummels, I. (Editor). (2016). Photography in Latin America. Images and Identities Across Time and Space. Bielefeld. Transcript.