Research project funded by ICIP wins award in Mexico

Ignacio Iturralde’s dissertation Comunidades encadenadas. Análisis de la cultura política y el caciquismo en un distrito de Oaxaca (1915-2014) (Chained Communities: Analysis of Political Culture and Caciquismo in a District of Oaxaca, Mexico (1915-2014)) has received the award for best doctoral thesis during the 2016 INAH Awards, presented annually by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico. Iturralde received an FI-ICIP research grant for novice researchers to conduct this thesis.
While working on his doctoral thesis, Iturralde published the paper Autonomía comunitaria y caciquismo: identidad étnica, control social y violencia en una comunidad mixe de Oaxaca (Autonomy, Community and Caciquismo (Ethnicity, Social Control and Violence in a Mixe Village in Oaxaca, Mexico) in the ICIP Working Paper collection.