International Certificate: Feminist Economics, Fiscal Policy, and Gender-Sensitive Budgets in Intercultural Contexts) (2012), CIDES-UMSA and UN Women, La Paz, Bolivia
M.A. Political Science (International Relations focus) (2009), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
Diplomado Internacional: Economía Feminista, Política Fiscal y Presupuestos Sensibles a Género en Contextos Interculturales
Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies (2005)
B.A. International Affairs, and Modern Languages (French and Spanish) (2003)

Introduction

Hanna Dahlstrom is a PhD Student at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Her research examines alliances between indigenous and feminist social movements for autonomy in the urban context of Eastern Bolivia and how they theorize on decolonization and depatriarchalization in the context of the politics of the state and the new constitution. She is also interested in anti-racism and feminism in Sweden, Swedish colonial history and neocolonialism, as well as art and political change.

Biography

Hanna Dahlstrom is a PhD Student at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Her research examines alliances between indigenous and feminist social movements for autonomy in the urban context of Eastern Bolivia and how they theorize on decolonization and depatriarchalization in the context of the politics of the state and the new constitution implemented by popular referendum in 2009.

She is also interested in anti-racism and feminism in Sweden, Swedish colonial history and neocolonialism, as well as art and political change.

Prior to coming to UBC Hanna completed an MA in Political Science with a focus on International Relations with distinction at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, AZ, USA, and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies as well as BA degrees in International Affairs and Modern Languages from the same institution. She also studied Feminist economics, Fiscal Policy, and Gender-sensitive budgeting in intercultural contexts at the Centro de Estudios de Desarrollo – Universidad Mayor de San Andrés & UN Women.

Hanna’s master’s thesis titled “Decolonizing Development Discourse: Engendered Representation of the Huaorani, Indigenous Rights and Oil” interrogated representations of gender, race, and class in media discourse through a postcolonial feminist and indigenous feminist lens.

Together with Agneta Enstrom she wrote a book about Swedish construction company Skanska’s work in the oil and gas business on indigenous territories in Latin America as a contribution to the debate on global climate justice. Beyond discourse of corporate social responsibility, the book examines the multinational company from multiples perspectives such as of the environment, gender, race, class, and indigeneity, based on the authors’ interviews with indigenous and human rights organizations, company bosses, and own observations, to discuss strategies to confront the impunity of multinational corporations.

Hanna has worked in solidarity organizations and popular education in Sweden, Latin America, and on the US-Mexico border with students, small farmers, feminist and urban movements, and indigenous peoples.

Research

In undergoing social and political transformation the government of Evo Morales has implemented many changes in policy to reverse the effects of colonial history and neoliberalism. While Bolivia has constitutionalized the rights of Mother Nature, it is planning a new nuclear program. Though it created a Vice-Ministry for Decolonization and a Unit for Depatriarchalization with programs of collective indigenous weddings, yet we see no state-sponsored same-sex marriages. How do diverse movements think of feminism and how can their theories help our understanding of social and political change in postcolonial nation-building? This research examines alliances between indigenous and feminist social movements for autonomy in the urban context of Eastern Bolivia and how they theorize on decolonization and depatriarchalization in the context of the politics of the state and the new constitution.

She is also interested in anti-racism and feminism in Sweden, Swedish colonial history and neocolonialism, as well as art and political change.

Publications

PUBLICATIONS (refereed)

Dahlström, Hanna, and Agneta Enström. (2009). Att göra sig svensk: Skanska, olja och förintelse i Amazonas (To appear Swedish/play dumb: Skanska, oil, and destruction in the Amazon). Stockholm, Sweden. Yelah and Notis förlag. ISBN10 9197736112.

www.yelah.net/files/skanska_inlaga_FINAL.pdf

Dahlström, Hanna. (2008). ”Oljan i Ecuador – företagens myter och huaoranifolkets verklighet”  (Oil in Ecuador – corporate myths and the Huaorani people’s reality) pp.56-63 in Ursprungsfolk i Världen (Indigenous Peoples of the World). Anna Klint, ed. Stockholm, Sweden, Föreningen Fjärde Världen (Fourth World Organization). ISBN 9163328933.

Bengtsson, Elin, Björklund, Frida, Dahlström, Hanna et. Al. (2008). Alerta – Reportage från ett Ecuador i förändring (Alert- Reports from Ecuador in a process of change). Stockholm, Sweden, Nixon. ISBN 10 9197720844.

http://latinamerikagrupperna.se/es/alerta-reportage-fran-ett-ecuador-i-forandring

Non-refereed:

Dahlstrom, Hanna. (2012). God, Oil, and the Theft of Waorani DNA: A Tale of Biopiracy in Ecuador. Nov. 8. Upside Down World.

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/ecuador-archives-49/3961-god-oil-and-the-theft-of-waorani-dna-a-tale-of-biopiracy-from-ecuador

Alzérreca, A., H. Dahlstrom, and W. Michel. (2011). Recomendaciones para mejorar las condiciones de las mujeres. Extraídas de las diez sesiones del Foro Permanente para las Cuestiones Indígenas de las Naciones Unidas (Recommendations for improving the conditions of women. Extracted from the ten sessions of the Permanent Forum for Indigenous Questions of the United Nations). UNFPA, Bolivia. Re-compilation and editing.

Dahlstrom, Hanna. (2009). Decolonizing Development Discourse: Engendered Representation of the Huaorani, Indigenous Rights, and Oil. MA Thesis. Northern Arizona University.

Dahlström, Hanna, and Agneta Enström. (2008). “Utveckling på vems villkor? – Skanskas verksamhet i ecuadorianska Amazonas” (Development on whose terms? – Skanska’s activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon) Swedwatch Report no.20.

Dahlstrom, Hanna, and Kristen McNutt (2005, March). “Deteriorating Political and Economic Crisis of Women in Iraq under US Occupying Forces: A Briefing Paper of International Educational Development.” Association of Humanitarian Lawyers, presented to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland.

Conference papers and presentations: 

Dahlstrom, Hanna (2008, April). Chair of panel on Gender, transnationalism, and neoliberalism in South America, and presented paper: “Embodying and Resisting Civilization and Pollution: Gendered Impacts of Global Oil Exploitation in the Ecuadorian Amazon”at the  Rocky Mountain Latin American Studies Conference Flagstaff, AZ.

Biscay, Pedro, H. Dahlström, and J. Proaño (2008, May). Research presentation on Skanska and oil exploitation at the Peoples’ Tribunal against European Multinationals (TPP) at the Cumbre de los Pueblos (People’s Summit) organized by Enlazando Alternativas, Lima, Peru.

Hanna Dahlstrom is a PhD Student at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Her research examines alliances between indigenous and feminist social movements for autonomy in the urban context of Eastern Bolivia and how they theorize on decolonization and depatriarchalization in the context of the politics of the state and the new constitution. She is also interested in anti-racism and feminism in Sweden, Swedish colonial history and neocolonialism, as well as art and political change.