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Stener Ekern

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Visiting address Kristian August gate 17 Domus Juridica 7.etg 0164 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 6706 St Olavs plass 0130 Oslo

Background

Born 1954 in Canada. Superior level exam (hovedfag) in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen in 1986, Doctor (Dr. Polit.) in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo in 2006, based on fieldworks in Nicaragua (1984-8) and Guatemala (2000-03). Broad work experience from Norwegian development cooperation (NORAD, Caritas Norway, the Norwegian Programme for Indigenous peoples), UN (Commission on the Truth for El Salvador). Since 1997 he has worked as a researcher at the NCHR where he also has carried out numerous evaluations of aid projects involving human rights (legal refor, ombudsman institutions etc.)

Teaching and tutoring

Political and legal anthropology; indigenous peoples and development. Areas: Latin Amerika, in particular Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay and Chile. Teaches in anthropology and human rights, indigenous peoples, particularly the Mayan peoples of Guatemala as well as Latin American history.

Tags: Human Rights, Political and Legal Anthropology, Cultural Diversity, South and Central America, Indigenous Peoples

Publications

Books

  • 1998 (1986]: Street Power. Culture and Politics in a Nicaraguan Neighbourhood. Bergen: Norse Publications. (Bergen Studies in Social Anthropology.) 187 pp.
  • 2006: Making Government: Community and Leadership in Mayan Guatemala. Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo: Unipub. 293 pp.
  • 2010: Chuwi Meq'en Ja'. Comunidad y liderazgo en La Guatemala K'iche'. Guatemala: Cholsamaj. 285 pp.

Journal Articles

  • 1995: ”La Purisima: Reflejo de la idiosincrasia del pueblo nicaragüence?", Mesoamerica 30:355-370.
  • 2010: "The modernizing bias of Human Rights: stories of mass killings and genocide in Central America, Journal of Genocide Research 12 (3-4): 219-241.
  • 2011: "The Production of Autonomy: Leadership and Community in Mayan Guatemala." Journal of Latin American Studies 43 (1):93-120.
  • 2012: "Human rights and World Heritage: preserving our common dignity through rights-based approaches to site management" (with William Logan, Birgitte Sauge and Amund Sinding-Larsen), International Journal of Heritage Studies 18 (3):213-225. 

Chapters in Anthologies

  • 1998:”Development Aid to Indigenous Peoples is an Exercise in Crossing Boundaries”. In: Human Rights in Developing Countries Yearbook 1997, Kluwer Law International, pp 3-34.
  • 2005: “Visions of the Right Order: Contrasts between Mayan Communitarian Law in Guatemala and International Human Rights Law.” In: Human Rights in Development Yearbook 2003 Human Rights and Local / Living Law. The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp 265-291.
  • 2008: "Are Human Rights Destroying the Natural Balance of All Things?". In: Pedro Pitarch, Shannon Speed and Xochitl Leyva Solano (eds), Human Rights in the Maya region. Global Politics, Cultural Contentions and Moral Engagements, Duke University Press, pp 123-144.
  • 2015: "Los indigenas ante dos modos de justicia: Reconociendo y desconociendo la autoridad comunal en Guatemala." I: Manuela Camus, Santiago Bastos og Julian Lopez Garcia (red): Dinosaurio reloaded. Violencias actuales en Guatemala. Guatemala: FLACSO, s 221-246.
  • 2015: "Seeing and Not Seeing the Communal Authority: Indigenous Law and State Law in Guatemala." I: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Dalee Sambo Dorough, Gudmundur Alfredsson and Petter Wille (red) Indigenous People's Rights in International Law. Emergence and Application. Kautokeino & Copenhagen: IWGIA & Galdu Cala, s 446-468.
  • 2015: "Las atracciones de los Pueblos indigenas: Mas alla de tu propio mundo?" I: Pensamiento social noruego sobre America Latina. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, s 229-246.   
  • Ekern, Stener (2018). Between relations and rights: writing constitutions in Mayan Guatemala. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. ISSN 0732-9113. 50(2), p. 167–187. doi: 10.1080/07329113.2018.1434724. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener & García-Godos, Jemima (2017). Konklusjon. Norske bilder av Latin-Amerika: Kan stereotypier overvinnes? In Marsteintredet, Leiv (Eds.), Norge i Latin-Amerika: Forbindelser og forestillinger. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202548483. p. 325–344. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2016). Towards a Mayan Theory of Human Rights: Sacred Equilibria and the Consequences of Disrespect. Nordic Journal of Human Rights. ISSN 1891-8131. 34(4), p. 272–288. doi: 10.1080/18918131.2016.1248060. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2015). Las atracciones antropológicas de los pueblos indígenas: ¿Más allá de tu propio mundo? In Bull, Benedicte (Eds.), Pensamiento social noruego sobre América Latina. Consejo Latinoamericano de Sciencias Sociales (CLACSO). ISSN 9789877221244. p. 229–246. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2015). Seeing and not seeing the communal authority: indigenous law and state law in Guatemala. Gáldu čála. ISSN 1504-4270. p. 446–468. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2015). Los indigenas ante dos modos de justicia: Reconociendo y desconociendo la autoridad comunal en Guatemala. In Bastos, Santiago; Camus, Manuela & Garcia, Julian Lopez (Ed.), Dinosaurio reloaded. Violencias Actuales en Guatemala.. FLACSO Guatemala. ISSN 9789929585379. p. 221–245. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener; Logan, William; Sauge, Birgitte & Sinding-Larsen, Amund (2012). Human rights and world heritage: preserving our common dignity through rights-based approaches to site management. International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). ISSN 1352-7258. 18(3), p. 213–225. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2012.656253. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2011). The Production of Autonomy: Leadership and Community in Mayan Guatemala. Journal of Latin American Studies. ISSN 0022-216X. 43, p. 93–119. doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1000180X. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2010). La comunidad maya en tiempos de cambio: la base del movimiento maya? In Amigo, Santiago Bastos & Brett, Roddy (Ed.), El movimiento maya en la década después de la paz (1997-2007). F y G Editores. ISSN 9789993984016. p. 201–233. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2010). The modernizing bias of human rights: stories of mass killings and genocide in Central America. Journal of Genocide Research. ISSN 1462-3528. 12(3-4), p. 219–241. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2008). Are Human Rights Destroying the Natural Balance of All Things? The Difficult Encounter between International Law and Community Law in Guatemala. In Pitarch, Pedro; Speed, Shannon & Solano, Xochitl Leyva (Ed.), Human Rights in the Maya Region. Duke University Press. ISSN 9780822343134. p. 123–143. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2008). Visiones del buen orden. Contrastes entre la ley maya comunitaria en Guatemala y la ley internacional de los derechos humanos. In Reyes, Virgilio & Sosa, Mario (Ed.), Lo político y la política. Una mirada desde la antropología. Asociación Guatemalteca de Antropología Política. ISSN 9789993993117. p. 7–27. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Ekern, Stener (2010). Chuwi meq'en ja'. Comunidad y liderazgo en la guatemala k'iche'. Cholsamaj. ISBN 9789929802100. 286 p. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Ekern, Stener (2021). mapuche. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). kalin'a og kalinago (kariber). Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). araukaner. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). arawak. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). tupinambá. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). pwelche. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). ildlendere (selk'nam (ona), haush, yaghan, kawéskar, chono). Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). querandí. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). muisca. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). søramerikanske urfolk. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). guaraní (språk). Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). guaraní (folkegruppe). Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). wayúu (guajiro). Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). pampasfolkene. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). chibcha. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). La comunidad como espacio de acción política maya en la Guatemala maya. Elementos para un análisis. Prensa Comunitaria (Guatemala). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2021). Menneskerettighetsbasert tilnærming til Norges verdensarv. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). pipil. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). moche. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). Guatemalas politiske system. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). Tikal. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). Guatemalas geografi. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). maya. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). taino. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). yanomami. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). amerikanske urfolk. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). økonomi og næringsliv i Guatemala. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). indianer. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). zapotek. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). Tekun Umam. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). Guatemalas befolkning. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). Atitlán-sjøen. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). El Mirador. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). Human Rights, Culture and Community, Heritage. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). Derechos Humanos, Cultura y Comunidad, Patrimonio Cultural. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2020). dødsstraff. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Guatemalas historie. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). El Salvadors befolkning. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). El Salvadors geografi. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Rigoberta Menchú Tum. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Efraín Ríos Montt. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Guatemalas samtidshistorie. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). fotballkrigen. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). San Salvador. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). El Salvadors samtidshistorie. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Mauricio Funes. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). El Salvadors politiske system. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). FMLN - Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Massemedier i El Salvador. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Roberto D'Aubuisson. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). El Salvadors historie. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Økonomi og næringsliv i El Salvador. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Quetzaltenango. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Kjell Laugerud. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). José Napoleón Duarte. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2019). Óscar Romero. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2018). A Comparative Perspective on Language Rights in Europe and the Americas. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2017). Human Rights and Cultural Diversity: Core Issues and Cases. Andrew Fagan. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 248 pp. ID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs. ISSN 2155-160X. 7. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2016). Human Rights as Law and as a Democratic Value. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2016). Human Rights as Law and as a Democratic Value: Experiences from Norway. In Čačová, Zuzana & Lenčo, Peter (Ed.), Ľudské práva vo výchove a vzdelávaní: aktuálny stav, výzvy a inšpirácie. Open Society Foundation. ISSN 9788089571123. p. 7–25. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2015). Pluralismo juridico en comunidades indigenas. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2015). Importancia de la investigacion para la construccion de la Cultura de Paz. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2015). Gobierno maya y gobierno local en Guatemala: Experiencias de participacion politica en un pais latinoamericano. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2015). Los indigenas ante dos modos de justicia. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2015). Relatos Ausentes: La comision de la verdad de El Salvador. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2011). Betsy Konefal, For Every Indio who Falls: A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, 1960-1990. Journal of Latin American Studies. ISSN 0022-216X. 43, p. 611–612. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2011). Menneskerettigheter, politikk og valg i Guatemala. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2011). Mellomamerikansk historie fra den neolittiske revolusjon til ca 1900, med særlig vekt på El Salvador. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2010). Quiet Genocide: Guatemala 1981-1983. Journal of Latin American Studies. ISSN 0022-216X. 42, p. 433–436. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2010). The Quiet Revolutionaries: Seeking Justice in Guatemala. Journal of Latin American Studies. ISSN 0022-216X. 42, p. 433–436. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2010). Inseguridad y violencia en la Guatemala maya: el arte de unificar criterios (en Totonicapán). Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2010). Introduction to Human Rights-based Approaches to Development. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2010). An Indigenous Perspective on the Latin American Bicentenary. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2010). Rettighetsbasert utvikling - en innføring hvordan menneskerettigheter kan brukes som planleggingsinstrument i bistandsprosjekter. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2008). Guatemala - definisjonsmakt og bruksrett. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2008). "Allmenningsprinsippet". Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2008). Verdens beste rett - Hva i all verden er menneskerettighetene. [Journal]. Dagbladet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2008). Retten til respekt. [Journal]. Dag og Tid. Full text in Research Archive
  • García-Godos, Jemima & Ekern, Stener (2007). Norske bilder av Latin-Amerika. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2007). Evolving Forms of Democracy and Rule of Law in Guatemalan Mayan Communities. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2007). Mayakvinne stiller til presidentvalg i Guatemala. [Radio]. Studentradioen i Bergen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener; Jones, Peris Sean; Zyberi, Gentian & Joaquim, Yannick Bernardo (2020). COVID-19: Human rights tradeoffs, challenges and policy responses. Norwegian centre for human rights, UiO. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2018). Building a better world by establishing a Truth Commission: Incomplete healing in El Salvador. Chr. Michelsen Institutt. ISSN 9788280626776. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener & Leifsen, Esben (2008). Repaso del proyecto "Fortalecimiento del Instituto de la defensa pública penal (IDPP), Defensorías indígenas, fase II".Implementado por (IDPP) con fondos de la Embajada Real de Noruega y administrado por PNUD Guatemala (GTM 0041 –GUA-05/048), 2004-2008. Senter for menneskerettigheter. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener & Mesgrahl, Kristine (2007). Review of HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation System, International)Commissioned by NORAD, with field visits to Jakarta, Tunis, Cairo and Geneva. Senter for menneskerettigheter. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekern, Stener (2007). Programa de formalización de activos de los pobres y las clases medias. Informe de un taller comisionado por la Embajada de Noruega en Guatemala. Senter for menneskerettigheter. Full text in Research Archive

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