Isabel Peñaranda Currie

PhD Candidate, City & Regional Planning

ipenaranda@berkeley.edu

Website(s)

Academia.edu

Website(s)

https://isabelpenaranda.academia.edu/

ipenaranda@berkeley.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS

EDUCATION

MA, Planificación Urbana y regional en CIDER, Universidad de los Andes

BA, Anthropology & Sustainable Development, Columbia University

PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT

My research relates to the political economy of urban policies in Latin America, specifically relating to land markets and value and informal settlements. I also continue to research forms of peripheral urbanization, in the Colombian Amazon and California.

Publications

Peñaranda, I., Otero, S., Uribe, S. (2021). “What is the state made of? Coca, roads, and the materiality of state formation in the frontier”. World Development. 141: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105395

Peñaranda, I. (2021). “The spatial legacy of failure: a study of state-directed colonization programs in Caquetá, Colombia (1959 – 1981)”. Territorio – Milan

Peñaranda, I. (2020). “Failure, politics and regional development: what developmentalism and infrastructure can reveal about the present “post-conflict” programs”. Political and Legal Anthropology Review.