Carolina Hormaza

Carolina Hormaza

Carolina Hormaza is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Ibero-American History, and a member of the Center for Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University. She finished her PhD in History at Bielefeld University, with a thesis on German geographical knowledge production on agrarian colonisation in Latin America in the mid-20th century. Her research interests include global history, particularly the continuities of German colonialism in development ideas, and its entanglements with Latin American agrarian and environmental history. Carolina has also researched agrarian history and armed conflict in Colombia throughout the 20th century, as a researcher at the Colombia Historical Memory Center and at the German Agency for International Cooperation, among other institutions.

Universität Bielefeld
ichormazaj@uni-bielefeld.de

Publications

Edited volumes

Hormaza, Carolina, Georg Fischer, Philipp Wolfesberger, and Olaf Kaltmeier, eds. 2026. Moving Frontiers in Agrarian Colonisation: Latin American Histories of Land, Labour and Landscapes. London: White Horse Press. (Forthcoming)

Hormaza, Carolina, Kaltmeier, Olaf, Adrian Gustavo Zarrilli, and Mariano Torres, eds. 2026. Convirtiendo la Tierra en Capital: Reflexiones desde América Latina. Bielefeld: Kipu-Verlag. (Forthcoming)

Book chapters

Hormaza, Carolina, and Miguel Urquijo. ‘Land Use in the Amazon from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 The Transformation of the Amazonian Territory into Capital and Its Incorporation into the Global Market’. In Land Use - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I, 1st ed., edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, María Fernanda López Sandoval, José Augusto Pádua, and Adrián Gustavo Zarrilli. Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag, 2024. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470114.

Hormaza, Carolina. ‘Fronteras políticas y límites naturales. El espacio vital y el espacio natural en los estudios sobre la Amazonía andina colombiana del geógrafo Ernesto Guhl Nimtz’. In La Amazonía andina en el siglo XXI : neoextractivismos, fronteras y resistencias, 1st ed., edited by María Fernanda López Sandoval and Fernando García. CLACSO, 2024. https://doi.org/10.54871/ca24as21.

Hormaza, Carolina. ‘La fotointerpretación y la geografía alemana sobre la colonización agraria en Costa Rica 1958–1968.’ In Saberes globales y expertos locales en América Latina en el siglo XX, edited by Stefan Rinke and José Ignacio Allevi, vol. 57. Historamericana. Herder, 2024. https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-44072.

Articles

Ciesielski, Markus, and Hormaza, Carolina. “Shifting Perceptions or Shifting Attention? The Local Press, Venezuelan Migration, and Hostile Perceptions in Colombia.” Estudios Sobre El Mensaje Periodístico 30, no. 1 (March 18, 2024): 35–47. https://doi.org/10.5209/esmp.91518.

Rios Oyola, Sandra M. and Hormaza, Carolina. (2023). The role of civil servants in the dignification of victims in Meta, Colombia. Third World Quarterly, 44(4), 795–813. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2158078

Articles in magazine/Newspapers

Ciesielski, Markus, and Hormaza, Carolina.  “Ten years of young protest in Colombia. The current movement and its long history.” [original: “Zehn Jahre junger Protest in Kolumbien. Die aktuelle Bewegung hat eine lange Vorgeschichte.”] ILA 448, 09-2021, reprint in: Beuler-Extradienst (online) https://extradienst.net/2021/09/21/zehn-jahre-junger-protest/

Publications (as research support)

Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica (2017), La tierra no basta. Colonización, baldíos, conflicto y organizaciones sociales en el Caquetá. Bogotá: Imprenta Nacional.

Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica, (2016), Tierras y conflictos rurales. Historia, políticas agrarias y protagonistas. Bogotá: Imprenta Nacional.

Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica (2015), Petróleo, coca, despojo territorial y organización social en Putumayo. Bogotá: Imprenta Nacional.