publications & talks | publicaciones y presentaciones

articles, essays, book chapters

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2023. “Agrarian Reform in the Age of Finance.” Society for Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots series. August 1, 2023. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/reforma-agraria

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2023. “Reforma Agraria En La Era de Las Finanzas.” Society for Cultural Anthropology Hot Spot series. August 1, 2023. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/reforma-agraria

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2023. “Compounding Financial Frontiers: Capital Seeds and Seeds for Capital.” Journal of Cultural Economy, 16(3), 350–362. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2023.2189145

Ballestero, A., Andrea Muehlebach, and Gloria Pérez-Rivera. 2023. What is a financial-frontier? Journal of Cultural Economy, 16(3), 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2023.2176345

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2022. “Creating Financial Enclosures: The Confluence of Displacement, Aid, and Narcoparamilitary Credit in Colombia.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 43(4), 514–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2022.2086228

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2021. “Forced Displacement and the Financialization of the Poor.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Poverty in the Global South. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032632391

blog posts and open learning

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2021.“Becoming Workers: Internally Displaced Youth in ‘Post-Conflict’” Colombia. Youth Circulations blog. http://www.youthcirculations.com/blog/2021/5/3/becoming-workers-internally-displaced-youth-in-post-conflict-colombia

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2014. “Colombia in the 19th Century”. Introductory essays for the J. Léon Helguera Collection of Colombiana at Vanderbilt University 19th Century digital collection. http://exhibits.library.vanderbilt.edu/colombia19c/

recent presentations

Pérez-Rivera, G. C., Nakamura, T., Pang, C., and Dolcecore, G. 2025. (Re)Imagining First-in-Family Student Experience Through Participatory Arts-Based Action Research. Symposium for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2025. Banff, AB. 15 October.

Pheasant-Neganigwane, K., Waucash-Warn, J., Pérez-Rivera, G. C., Pang, C., and Manywounds, A. 2025. Big Aunty Energy: Reflections on the Creation of and Learnings From the Aunties | Anti Art Exhibit at MRU, Teaching and Learning Expo, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, August 28.

Pérez-Rivera, G. C. 2025. Canada’s Housing Crisis and Migration: What Do We Know and Why We Should Care. Sociology and Anthropology Department Colloquium, MRU, Calgary, March 18.

Pérez-Rivera, G. C. 2025. Financialization of Housing Across Canada. Guest lecture to PL8110: Advanced Graduate Planning Studio, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, March 4.

Pérez-Rivera, G. C. 2024. Indigenous Communities Under Fire: Reflections on Indigenous Territories and War in Colombia. Mount Royal University Journey to Indigenization: Truth, Reconciliation & Decolonization, Calgary, AB, September 24. 

Pérez-Rivera, G. C. 2024. Colombian Insurgencies and Para-estates a Historical Review, World Anthropological Union Congress, Johannesburg, South Africa, November 15.

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2022. “Forced Displacement and Narcoparacredit in Colombia: the Back Story.” Mount Royal University Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium. Calgary, AB, October 5.

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2021. “La tierra, la deuda, el narco-paramilitarismo y las finanzas populares después del conflicto”. Webinar for the Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography, Kaleidos at the Cuenca and FLACSO Universities in Ecuador. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcWdKyqecdo

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2021. “Narcotrafficking, Informal Work, and Food Insecurity”. Human Stories. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/gloria-c-prez-rivera-narcotrafficking-informal-work-and-food-security

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2021. “Narcotráfico, Trabajo Informal y Seguridad Alimentaria”. Human Stories. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/gloria-c-prez-rivera-narcotrfico-trabajo-informal-y-seguridad-alimentaria

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2020. “Narco-paramilitary Micro-credit as Financial Inclusion: How Money Laundering from Cocaine Trafficking Became Credit for the Poor in Colombia and Latin America, Anthropology of Crime and Criminalization.” Workshop organized by The University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, October 7-9.

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2020. “Vivir del Dia y Pagar Gota a Gota: Financialization in the Aftermath of Internal Displacement in Cartagena, Colombia”. Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, May 13.

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2020. “Narcos and Moneylenders: Dealing in Debt in Colombia”. Got Anthropology Speakers Series at the Toronto Public Library, Toronto, ON, February 4.

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2019. “Reconciliation in the aftermath of the Colombian conflict: from women victims to women entrepreneurs”. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), San Francisco, CA, November 14.

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2019. “Gota a Gota, Drop by Drop: Narco-paramilitarism and the Militarization of Credit for the Poor in Colombia”. 118th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, BC, November 22.

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2019. “When credit becomes a critical element of economic reconstruction in the aftermath of internal displacement.” 14th Annual Refugee and Migration Studies Student Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, October 5.

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. 2018. “Financialization in the Everyday Economies of Internally Displaced Persons in Cartagena, Colombia.” 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, November 14.