Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga

Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga is Professor at the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. He received a PhD in Anthropology of the University of California, Davis. His main topic of interest is human movement. His dissertation entitled “Errant Journals: Stories of Movement of Africans in Dakar, Senegal” develops the concept of errance as an alternative to understand the travel stories of Africans who look for better horizons beyond the African continent. His most recent project, located in the Northwest tip of Colombia, is entitled “Following the thread of errance: itineraries of South-South travelers through Uraba.” The main ethnographic site for this project is Necoclí, a port in the Gulf of Urabá where the journeys of people from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America periodically get suspended. Other research interests are, on the one hand, economic anthropology and, on the other, audiovisual and its potential for ethnographic writing. At the ASCL, he plans to write two chapters of a book that gathers research conducted in Senegal, the Colombia-Panamá border and other locations in South America. He will be working with the CRG Africa in the World - Rethinking Africa's global connections.