Newcastle University

Introduction

Patricia Oliart is Lecturer in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. She graduated in Sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her Masters degree is in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and she holds a PhD in Human Geography at Newcastle University.

Research Interests

She has worked as a lecturer, consultant and researcher on issues related to gender, ethnicity, cultural change, and education in urban and rural areas in the Andes and Amazonia.

Other Expertise

Past and current research interests also include racist and anti-racist discourses in state building processes in Post colonial Latin America, contemporary cultural life among rural Andean migrants in Latin American and European cities, (language, music, landscape changes and migrations), new narratives of Colonial times among Indigenous intellectuals after 1992.

Postgraduate Supervision

Jane Carnaffan, ESCR funded PhD in Human Geography: Peru-Land of the Incas? An analysis of Discourses of Development, Culture and Gender in ‘Home stay’ tourism in Peru.
Penelope Johnson, PhD in Translation Studies: Translation and the image of the other. The English translations of Pablo Neruda's Canto General.
Ximena Cordoba, AHRC funded PhD in Iberian and Latin American Studies, working on the Carnaval de Oruro.
Sarah Bennison, AHRC funded PhD in Iberian and Latin American Studies, working on water rituals in the Peruvian Highlands
Fernando Gonzáles-Velarde, PhD in Iberian and Latin American Studies, working on tourism, culture, and uses of space in the Northern Coast of Peru.

Undergraduate Teaching

LAS 1010 Introduction to Latin America
SPA 2025 Representaciones de Revolución, Dictadura y Democracia (with Nick Morgan and Jorge Catala-Carrasco)
LAS4003 Culturas de la Juventud en España, Portugal y América Latina

Postgraduate Teaching

LAS8100 Research Methods in Latin American Interdisciplinary Studies
Contributor to SOC8101 The Shaping of Latin America I and LAS8103 The Shaping of Latin America II
Willing to teach and co-supervise PG work on gender and interracial relations, intercultural policies, environment and culture, popular culture, and ethno genesis processes in contemporary Latin America.

• Oliart P. Políticas educativas y la cultura del sistema educativo en el Perú. Lima, Peru: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Tarea, 2011.
• Oliart P. Mediocridad y corrupción: Los enemigos de la educación estatal en el Perú. In: Pasara, L, ed. Perú ante los desafíos del siglo XXI. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, 2011.
• Oliart P, Biffi V. Territorialidad Indigena, conservacion y desarrollo. Discursos sobre la biodiversidad en la Amazonia Peruana. Lima, Peru: Instituto del Bien Comun, 2010.
• Oliart P. Indigenous Women's Organizations and the Political Discourses of Indigenous Rights and Gender Equity in Peru. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 2008, 3(3), 291-308.
• Vasquez T, Oliart P. La descentralizacion educativa 1996-2001. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2007.
• Oliart P. Género, sexualidad y adolescencia en la provincia de Quispicanchi. In: Mujica, RM; García, JM, ed. Quispicanchi: Género y Sexualidad. Lima: IPEDEHP - Fe y Alegria, 2005.
• Oliart P. Desafíos políticos, económicos y científicos de la Megadiversidad. In: Fernando Eguren, Patricia Oliart and Marisa Remy, ed. Perú: El problema Agrario en Debate : SEPIA X. Seminario Permanente de Investigacion agraria, 2004.
• Oliart P. Para qué estudiar?: La problemática educativa de niñas y mujeres en áreas rurales del Perú. In: Schicra, I, ed. Género, etnicidad y educación en América Latina. Madrid: Ediciones Morata, 2004, pp. 49-60.
• Oliart P. El Estado Peruano y las Políticas Sociales dirigidas a los Pueblos Indígenas en la Década de los 90. University of Texas at Austin: Centre for Latin American Social Policies, 2003. Available at: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/PDF/overviews/perusocpolpuebind.pdf.
• Oliart P, ed. Territorio, cultura e historia. Materiales para la renovación de la enseñanza sobre la sociedad peruana. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2003.
• Montero C, Oliart P, Ames P, Uccelli F. La escuela rural: Modalidades y prioridades de intervención. Lima: UMC-Ministry of Education, 2001.
• Oliart P, Feixa C. Youth Studies in Latin America: On Social Actors, Public Policies and New Citizenship. Young, Nordic Journal of Youth Research 2012. Submitted.
• Mannarelli M, Laurie ND, Oliart P, Richardson D. Desarrollo rural y sexualidad : reflexiones comparativas [Rural Development and Sexuality: Comparative Reflections]. Lima, Peru: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2008.