Comments: Sofia José Santos (FEUC/CES), José Manuel Pureza (FEUC/CES) and Tatiana Moura (CES)


About
Over the last few years, Dirk Kruijt has carried out analyses of civil wars, insurgency and counter-insurgency using interviews and oral history, emphasising the role of political leaders, generals and guerrilla commanders. More recently, he has focused on the analysis of urban violence.

In this first Masculinities in Debate, organised by the Observatório Masculinidades.pt/CES, the X-MEN project and the Master in International Relations - Peace, Security and Development Studies of FEUC, the speaker will share examples of these works, discussing topics such as men and women in the Armed Forces, forgotten women commanders in the guerrillas, the military family and gender roles in youth “bands”, focusing on the cases of Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua), Colombia, Cuba and Argentina.

Bio note

Dirk Kruijt is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies (Utrecht University). He has published on inequality and social exclusion in Latin America; military governments; insurgency and counter-insurgency; peace negotiations and post-war reconstruction; and urban violence and non-state actors. He was founding President of the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS).

He recently published as co-editor Ethnography as Risky Business: Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts (Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt, and Dennis Rodgers, eds. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019), Latin American Guerrilla Movements: Origins, Evolution, Outcomes (Dirk Kruijt, Eduardo Rey Tristán and Alberto Martín Álvarez, eds., New York: Routledge, 2020), and The Latin American Military and Politics in the 21st Century: A Cross-National Analysis (Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings, eds, New York: Routledge, 2022).