Charlotta Widmark

Charlotta Widmark is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Uppsala University's Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and serves as Director of Studies at the Advanced and Research Level in her department. Her work focuses on identity, power, and social change in Latin America, particularly Bolivia and Peru, with emphases on indigenous peoples, urbanization, gender, and multiculturalism.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (dissertation: To Make Do in the City: Social Identities and Cultural Transformations among Aymara Speakers in La Paz, 2003)

Research Interests:

• Latin American democratization processes and indigenous-state relations
• Social inequality and urban transformation in Andean cities
• Gender equality challenges in multicultural policies
• Urban anthropology and spatialized cultural change
• Development anthropology and policy implementation

Recent Research Projects:

• "Social inequality, Spatialized Cultural Transformations and Life Trajectories" (2019): Re-study of La Paz's urban outskirts
• Interdisciplinary research node "The good city – Urbanism and social change" (2012-2015)

Teaching:

• Economic anthropology, anthropology and religion, academic writing at undergraduate level
• Advanced courses: Ethnography and Anthropology in Practice

Key Themes in Publications:

• Urban spatial dynamics and heritage in global cities (Rome, Istanbul, London)
• Gender-political tensions in Bolivian multiculturalism
• Ethnographic methodologies in development contexts

Labs/Teams: Led interdisciplinary urban studies initiatives including the "The good city" research node analyzing urban space and social change in European cities.