Newcastle University

Introduction

I arrived at Newcastle in September 2007 from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, where I worked in the area of cultural studies. My research has focused on the politics of cultural representation in Colombia and has included work on nationalism, class, race and ethnicity, participatory democracy and the media. Much of this has been done from the perspective of discourse analysis but I'm particularly interested in interdisciplinary projects involving historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political analysts. My next research project will be a comparative study of participatory democracy in vulnerable communities in Colombia, Venezuela and Panama.

Research Interests

Participatory democracy in Colombia, Venezuela and Panama; Nationalism in Colombia; Representations of race, class and gender in Colombia; Cultural studies in Colombia, Venezuela and Panama; History of Colombia; Political discourse analysis

Other Expertise

Critical theory; Social Theory; Marxist theory

Current Work

Nationalism in Colombia; Participatory democracy in Colombia

Future Research

Participatory Democracy in Venezuela and Panama

Postgraduate Supervision

Nationalism in Latin America; Participatory democracy; Discourse analysis on a range of themes; Race and ethnicity in discourse; Political discourse in Colombia, Venezuela and Panama

Currently supervisor for Ana Cecilia Almanza (Instituto de Altos Estudios para el Desarrollo, Bogota) and her thesis "¿PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA EN LA GESTION MUNICIPAL?: Una reflexión de casos de Bogotá 2004 - 2006 desde un horizonte comparado"

Funding

COLCIENCIAS/UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES (BOGOTA)
"Sobre la crisis de la democracia en Colombia: un estudio de los discursos de nación, estado y democracia en Colombia" (2005).
15,000,000 COP

Undergraduate Teaching

Cultural Diversity in Latin America
Cultural Politics in Colombia

Postgraduate Teaching

Narratives of Cultural Identity

• Morgan N. ¿Para vivir todos del mismo lado?: violencia simbólica y multiculturalismo en Colombia. Revista Iberoamericana 2008, 223, 497-513.
• Morgan N. ¿Reinventar la patria?: nación, estado y ciudadanía en la Colombia de Alvaro Uribe. In: Moraña, M, ed. Cultura y Cambio Social: Proceedings of the South by Midwest Conference. 2008.
• Morgan N. El mundo es de los vivos: miedo, desconfianza y el orden social colombiano. Estudios. Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales 2008, 16(31), 85-109.
• Morgan N, Cedeño J. Estado de violencia, planes globales, economías clandestinas. Estudios. Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales 2006, 26-27, 53-74.
• Morgan N. Ese oscuro objeto del deseo: raza, clase, género y la ideología de lo bello en Colombia. In: Rutter-Jensen, C, ed. Pasarela paralela: escenarios de la estética y el poder en los reinados de belleza. Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2005, pp. 44-56.
• Morgan N, Lobo G. ¿Lo decimos con cariño?: estratifiación racial y el discurso de lo negro en Colombia. Revista de Estudios Colombianos 2004, 27-28, 36-39.
• Morgan N, Lobo G. Lo decimos con cariño? Articulating Blackness in Colombia: Affection, Difference or Inequality?. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 2004, 10(1), 83-97.
• Morgan N. Política e identidad cultural en la desesperanza de José Donoso. Revista de Estudios Sociales 2002, 13, 90-98.
• Morgan N. "If even Inocencio was guilty...": Cynicism and Political Culture in Colombia. 2013.
• Morgan N. Less Than We Bargained For?: Understanding Participatory Politics in Bogotá and Caracas. 2012. Submitted.
• Morgan N. Patriotism without the People: Chávez on the Frontier of Colombian Nationalism. 2012. Submitted.
• Morgan N. The Triumph of Hope: Nation, State and Democracy in Colombia. 2012. Submitted.
• Morgan N. James J. Brittain, Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia: The Origin and Direction of the FARC–EP. Journal of Latin American Studies 2011, 43(2), 355-357.
• Morgan N. La gestion social: más que un gesto. Revista de asuntos políticos 2010, 6, 35-37.