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In this episode, the guest of Global Development Review Podcast is Dr. Christopher L.Carter.


Dr. Christopher L.Carter is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and Research Associate at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley. In his book project, he examine the emergence as well as the political and social effects of indigenous autonomy in the Americas. The research for this project won the 2020 APSA Best Fieldwork Award. He also has published or has forthcoming work on local governance in Latin America, methods for causal inference, and the regulation of gig economy labor in the United States. All of his work employs a multi-method approach, using experimental and natural experimental data as well as extensive interviewing and archival research.


Dr. Christopher L.Carter received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020. He completed a Master's in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge as a Gates-Cambridge scholar, and he hold a B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied as a Morehead-Cain scholar.


In this episode of GDR Podcast, Dr. Christopher L.Carter will have a conversation with Jaffer Latief Najar about the following:


  1. What are their everyday experiences of Indigenous communities, and how do they navigate and negotiate with the state, regarding their rights and issues.  
  2. Who are indigenous communities or groups in the Americas
  3. What is the current legal and political position of indigenous communities in the Americas. What are their everyday struggles?
  4. What does indigenous autonomy means, and what is this policy?, How indigenous communities see and react to such a policy of autonomy, granted by states?
  5. The role of resource extraction by state and private actors. How do we understand the theory of resource extraction, and how state and private actors are involved in it?  
  6. The local governance practice of the indigenous communities in the Americas.
  7.  The indigenous-state relations in contemporary Americas, particularly in the context of Latin America


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