Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar (Universidad de los Andes)
- Position
- Phase 1 Co-Investigator
- Location
- Colombia
- Faculty
- Anthropology
- School
- Universidad de los Andes
- Faculty profile link
- https://curlinea.uniandes.edu.co/alejo_castillejo/
- Position
- Associate Professor of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes
- @AleCastillejoC
Professor Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar is associate professor of anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. He has significant ethnographic experience in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies. His work has dealt, over the last 20 years, with the impact that different forms of violence have had on the existential landscape of human experience. In this context, he has conducted fieldwork in Colombia and South Africa among victims’ organizations and former combatants. Professor Castillejo-Cuéllar was also international observer to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru as well as consultant to the National Commission for Reconciliation in Colombia. Since 2011, he has also led the Critical Studies Program on Political Transitions (PECT), an interdisciplinary academic initiative and network of researchers from the global South interested in the study of the social worlds that emerge during the aftermath of violence, with particular attention to the questions of subjectivity and everyday survival.
He is currently working on the book “After the traces of the body: ethnophonies, (im)materialities and the sensorial life of the missing in Colombia”.
Alejandro is the Principle-Investigator of the Phase 1 Colombia project 'Tales of the Future.'
Resource Archive
Search or browse the resource archive for films, reports, toolkits and other resources produced by the Changing the Story and its commissioned projects. Items written by Prof Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar are listed below:
| Title | Summary | Author | Categories | Tags | doc_categories_hfilter | doc_tags_hfilter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tales of the Future – Colombia | Blog (2018/04/05) Tales of the Future – Colombia | Dr Simon Dancey, Emily Morrison, Prof Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Colombia, Phase 1 | format: blog, language: english | colombia phase1 location | blog language-english |
| The Arts of Survival (English) | Written by Alejandro Castillejo Cuellar and investigators Alex Sierra and Juanita Frankey, the following critical review of the Phase 1 Colombia project Tales of the Future: Senses, Creativity and the … | Prof Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Colombia, Phase 1 | format: report, language: english, SDG 11 Sustainable Cities, SDG 16 Institutions, subject: reflections | colombia phase1 location | report language-english sdg-11-sustainable-cities sdg-16-institutions subject-reflections |
| How do young people in conflict settings view peace? | Listen to the jungle, the rivers and the voices of young people from the Atrato River populations, one of the areas hardest hit in the country by the conflict. Alejandro … | Prof Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Colombia, Phase 1 | language: spanish, SDG 11 Sustainable Cities, SDG 16 Institutions, subject: peace | colombia phase1 location | language-spanish sdg-11-sustainable-cities sdg-16-institutions subject-peace |
| Peace in a Small Scale | 'Peace in a Small Scale: Colombia and the Social Imagination of the Future' by Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar and with the research assistance of Alex Sierra. This paper was presented as part … | Prof Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Colombia, Event, Phase 1, Young Changemakers | format: film, language: english | colombia event phase1 changemakers location | film language-english |
| Desde las fronteras de la precariedad | Blog (2018/12/21) Desde las fronteras de la precariedad | Prof Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Colombia, Phase 1 | format: blog, language: spanish, subject: reflections | colombia phase1 location | blog language-spanish subject-reflections |
| The Arts of Survival (Spanish) | Written by Alejandro Castillejo Cuellar and investigators Alex Sierra and Juanita Frankey, the following critical review of the Phase 1 Colombia project Tales of the Future: Senses, Creativity and the … | Prof Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Colombia, Phase 1 | format: report, language: spanish, SDG 11 Sustainable Cities, SDG 16 Institutions, subject: reflections | colombia phase1 location | report language-spanish sdg-11-sustainable-cities sdg-16-institutions subject-reflections |
| A Critique of Transitional Discourse | Written by Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar (Phase 1 Colombia Project 'Tales of the Future). The following article is a product of Alejandro's research and raises the need to question "Transitional scenarios," their … | Prof Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Colombia, Phase 1 | format: article, language: spanish, SDG 11 Sustainable Cities, SDG 16 Institutions | colombia phase1 location | article language-spanish sdg-11-sustainable-cities sdg-16-institutions |
| Small Scale Peace: Fractures of Everyday Life and Transitional Policies | Journal article Read Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar (Phase 1 Colombia Project 'Tales of the Future) article titled 'Small Scale Peace: Fractures of Everyday Life and Transitional Policies in Colombia published in Revista … | Prof Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Colombia, Phase 1 | format: article, language: spanish, SDG 11 Sustainable Cities, SDG 16 Institutions | colombia phase1 location | article language-spanish sdg-11-sustainable-cities sdg-16-institutions |
| Del ahogado el sombrero, a manera de manifiesto | Del ahogado el sombrero, a manera de manifiesto: esbozos para una crítica al discurso transicional. Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology. By Alejandro Castillejo Cuéllar, 2018. | Prof Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Colombia | format: article, language: spanish | colombia location | article language-spanish |
| Introducción del editor invitado: la paz en pequeña escala | Introducción del editor invitado: la paz en pequeña escala, Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar (2019) | Prof Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Colombia | format: article, language: spanish, SDG 11 Sustainable Cities, SDG 16 Institutions | colombia location | article language-spanish sdg-11-sustainable-cities sdg-16-institutions |