Paul Dosh, director of Building Dignity, a grassroots development organization in Lima, Peru, will present “Demanding the Land: Urban Movements & Building Dignity in Peru” on Wednesday, Oct. 8 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum. Dosh will present an engaging session of social movements scholarship and community-based activism, complemented by elements of spoken word poetry and documentary photography. This event is free and open to the public.
A member of the Carleton Class of 1996, Dosh is currently a professor of political science at Macalester College in St. Paul. As a Carleton student, Dosh integrated his interests in political science scholarship and social justice activism in the Americas. He earned his PhD at UC Berkeley and also taught at Carleton and San Quentin Prison. A Fulbright-Hays scholar, he is the recipient of several teaching awards, the author of Demanding the Land: Urban Popular Movements in Peru and Ecuador, and founding director of Building Dignity, a community center that trains emerging youth and adult community leaders in the informal settlements of Lima, Peru.
Building Dignity is a non-profit organization that works in the community of Lomo de Corvina (Lima, Peru), where 55,000 pobladores – people struggling for economic justice – collaborate to over come steep obstacles. Eighty-one percent of adults lack adequate employment, school drop-out rates soar 35% above the national average, and approximately 75% of the population lives at or below the poverty line. Building Dignity aims to enhance educational opportunities, train local leaders, and support neighborhood-led development in Lima, Peru. More at www.buildingdignity.org.
This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Departments of Political Science and Latin American Studies. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4117. The Gould Library is accessible via Highway 19 in Northfield.
