Starting my fellowship at the LCSS, Hannover. During one year, I will work on a global sociology of universities, focusing on how universities change and how the involved actors speak about those changes. This will start with a review of the university reforms in Ecuador since the 1950s.
Posts by Philipp Altmann
Por si les interesa, justo está en curso el Encuentro CTS Ecuador 2026. En la EPN o en línea. Y el miércoles con una presentación mía...
ctsecuador.org/octavo-encue...
revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/CS...
Worrying data. In Latin America, only El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua have worse results. academic-freedom-index.net
The first 18 copies of my book sold. Hey, there's more potential there: it's an investigation into the changes in the indigenous movement that led to the uprisings of 2019 and 2022. And it provides clues to understanding the uprising of 2025. Here it is: www.routledge.com/Ecological-N...
Still a few free copies available of my article on how inequality was conceptualized in Ecuadorian sociology.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/G7PQY...
2025 was also the year when I (and Timmo Krüger) could finish a research started in 2019, on the diffusion of the concept of Buen Vivir in Germany, particularly, its environmentalist movement. All in this book, with other fascinating contributions on Buen Vivir or Vivir Bien: t.co/rs3mt1XPE2
2025 wasn't a great year for me. Yet, I could finish a few long-term projects. One is a short book that updates research on the indigenous movement in Ecuador, particularly the uprisings of 2019 and 2022. This discount code should still be active: 25AFLY4
www.routledge.com/Ecological-N...
Hi everyone. I am new here, tired of the platform-formerly-known-as-twitter (and nostalgic of what it was a few years back). Any ground rules for bsky?