Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, book reviews, and interdisciplinary conferences
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
2024
Masek, Vaclav, and Milián Lemus, Briseida (2024). “¿Institucionalizar el estallido en Guatemala? Del Movimiento Estudiantil de 2015 al Movimiento Semilla de 2023.” Escripta. julio-diciembre 2023. Vol. 3, No. 10:144-175.
2023
Masek, Vaclav. (2023). “Guatemala’s Indigenous-Led National Strike Rejects Authoritarianism.” NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 55, No. 4. DOI: 10.1080/10714839.2023.2280317.
Masek, Vaclav. (2023). “La paradoja del desarrollo: consultas comunitarias en la posguerra guatemalteca.” Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1: 276-300. DOI: 10.26754/ojs_ried/ijds.801.
Masek, Vaclav. (2023). “O Paradoxo Do Desenvolvimento: Consultas Comunitárias Na Guatemala do Pós-Guerra.” Humanidades e Ciencias Sociais: Perspectivas Teóricas, Metodológicas e de Investigação. São Paulo: Editora Artemis. https://www.editoraartemis.com.br/artigo/33337/
Masek, Vaclav. (2023). “Review of Testimonio: Canadian Mining and the Aftermaths of Genocide in Guatemala, ed. by Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell.” Journal of Latin American Geography, Vol. 22, No. 2. pp. 255-257.
2021
Masek, Vaclav; Navia, Patricio; Perelló, Lucas. (2021). “Demand without supply? Mass partisanship, ideological attachments, and the puzzle of Guatemala’s electoral market failure.” International Area Studies Review. pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/22338659211072939
Masek, Vaclav; Aguasvivas, Luis. (2021). “Consolidando el Poder en El Salvador: El caso de Nayib Bukele.” Revista Ecuador Debate. Vol. 17, No. 112. pp. 157-175. Quito: FLACSO Andes. http://hdl.handle.net/10469/17482.
2020
Masek, Vaclav. (2020). "Review of Out of the Shadow: Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala, ed. by Julie Gibbings and Heather Vrana." NACLA Report on the Americas, 52(4), pp. 466–467. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2021.1840188.
2019
Navia, Patricio; Perelló, Lucas; Masek, Vaclav. (2019). “The Determinants of Perception of Corruption in Guatemala, 2006–2016.” Public Integrity. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999922.2019.1600964.
Teaching
RAships
Fall 2022 & Spring 2023
USC Annenberg School of Communication. “Comparing Pandemic Responses in Latin America’s Education Sector.” Prof. Manuel Castells.
TAships
Spring 2022
USC Dornsife College of Arts and Sciences. Grassroots Participation in Global Perspective. Prof. Hajar Yazdiha.
Fall 2021
USC Dornsife College of Arts and Sciences. Introduction to Sociology. Prof. Juliana McGene.
Adjunct Instructor
Fall 2019
NYU CLACS / Columbia SIPA. U.S.-Latin America Relations After World War II. Prof. Jorge Castañeda (NYU) and Jeffrey Delaurentis (Columbia).
NYU College of Arts and Sciences. Latin America’s 21st Century. Prof. Jorge Castañeda (NYU).
Fall 2018
NYU CLACS / Columbia SIPA. U.S.-Latin America Relations After World War II. Prof. Jorge Castañeda (NYU) and John Coatsworth (Columbia).
NYU College of Arts and Sciences. Latin America’s 21st Century. Prof. Jorge Castañeda (NYU).
Conferences
2024
Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Bogotá, Colombia
Track: Despojos y desplazamientos: violencias, extractivismo y economías ilegales en zonas rurales e indígenas
Panel: Cracking the Commodity Consensus
Presentation: “Resistencias: Grassroots Movements in Guatemala’s Extractive Frontier.”
Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Conference on Nationalism and Memory at the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland
Presentation: “Mnemonic Frames in "Unsettled" Times: Mobilizing the Past After Political Violence.”
Inaugural British Journal of Sociology Conference at the London School of Economics. London, England
Panel: New Research Avenues into Social Movements
Presentation: Organic Mechanisms - Mobilizing Frames in the Age of Climate Change
Indigeneity and Socialism in the Americas at University College. London, England
Panel: War of Position in the Andes
Presentation: Building Socialist Hegemony - Gramsci and Mariáteguis Social Theory
2023
Southern California Association of Latin American Studies (SCALAS) at CSU Northridge. Los Angeles, CA
Panel: The State of Independent Journalism in Latin America
Presentation: Press Freedom Under Siege in Guatemala
III Jornadas de la Red Intercátedras de Historia de América Latina Contemporánea (RIHALC). Córdoba, Argentina
Mesa: Movimientos estudiantiles latinoamericanos: Historias con presente
Ponencia: ¿Institucionalizar el estallido? El caso del Movimiento Semilla (2015-2023)
XX World Congress of Sociology at the International Sociological Association (ISA). Melbourne, Australia
Research Council 48 - Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change
Panel: Social Movements and Transitional Justice ‘from below’: Exploring Grassroots Activism in Armed Conflicts and Post-Conflict Contexts
Presentation: Temporal Imaginations: Collective Memory and Collective Action in Post-Peace Guatemala
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS). Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Session on Extractivism(s) in Neoliberal Guatemala
Presentation: Revisitando las resistencias pacíficas contra el extractivismo multinacional pos-paz
Conference on Latin American Geography (CLAG).Tucson, AZ
Session on Time, Space, and Identity
Presentation: “Temporal Imaginations: Collective Memory and Collective Action in Post-Peace Guatemala”
2022
International Conference at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research (CAGR) at USC. Los Angeles, CA
Session on Genocide Denial
Presentation: Denial and Distortion in Post- “Peace” Guatemala
American Sociological Association (ASA). Los Angeles, CA
Panel: Emergent Graduate Research on the Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations
Table 2: “Indigenous Movements and Identities”
2022 Postgraduates in Latin American Studies (PILAS) Conference at Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Cambridge University. Cambridge, United Kingdom
Panel: Rethinking Land Restitution and Indigenous Resistance
Paper: “Temporal Imaginations: Memory in Social Movement Action”
VI Congreso Internacional de Estudios del Desarrollo (CIED) del Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). Barcelona, Spain
Panel: Violencia política, el conflicto armado y el desarrollo
Paper: “The Development Paradox: Community Consultations in Postwar Guatemala”
Paper awarded an Honorable Mention by REEDES during the VI CIED Award Ceremony.
2022 Chicago Ethnography Conference at the University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI
Panel: Community, Land, Memory
Paper presentation: “Meaning-Making in Social Movements.”
Jornadas de Litigio Estratégico en Derechos Humanos de la Universidad de la Pampa (UdelaPampa). Santa Rosa, Argentina
Panel: Minería y DD.HH.
Paper presentation: “La minería en El Estor: el desafío de la consulta comunitaria.”
2021
I Congreso de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Guatemala City, Guatemala
Paper presentation: “La consulta comunitaria en El Estor.”
American Sociological Association (ASA). Chicago, IL.
Panel presider: ASA Latino/a/x Roundtable - “Navigating Education”
2020
XII Coloquio Antropología y Sociología, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Guatemala City, Guatemala
Paper presentation: “Banderas Blancas: ¿(Des)confianza en el Estado?”
Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA). Guadalajara, Mexico
Panel presentation: “Partisanship in Nonpartisan Democracies: The Post-war Multiparty System in Guatemala”
