Elena Butti
@elenabutti.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Geneva Graduate Institute | PhD University of Oxford
youth | gangs | activism | housing | Latin America | www.elenabutti.com
youth | gangs | activism | housing | Latin America | www.elenabutti.com
I’m much looking forward to deliver a guest lecture at ETH Zurich this coming Monday on informal housing, criminal actors and urban extractivism in Colombia!
Thank you David Kostenwein, Daniela Sanjinés Encinales & Jennifer Duyne Barenstein for the invitation.
Thank you David Kostenwein, Daniela Sanjinés Encinales & Jennifer Duyne Barenstein for the invitation.
October 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I’m much looking forward to deliver a guest lecture at ETH Zurich this coming Monday on informal housing, criminal actors and urban extractivism in Colombia!
Thank you David Kostenwein, Daniela Sanjinés Encinales & Jennifer Duyne Barenstein for the invitation.
Thank you David Kostenwein, Daniela Sanjinés Encinales & Jennifer Duyne Barenstein for the invitation.
We had a most insightful workshop last week in Geneva, discussing the intersection between housing struggles and "illegality". Thanks to my co-organizer Guillaume Dumont, our discussants @hanna-hilbrandt.bsky.social, Matthew Richmond, Miguel Martínez, Martijn Koster & the @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social!
September 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
We had a most insightful workshop last week in Geneva, discussing the intersection between housing struggles and "illegality". Thanks to my co-organizer Guillaume Dumont, our discussants @hanna-hilbrandt.bsky.social, Matthew Richmond, Miguel Martínez, Martijn Koster & the @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social!
Profundamente inspirador participar en este encuentro en Medellín la semana pasada junto a tantos queridos colegas!
Para saber más sobre nuestro Colectivo Juvenicidio y Resistencias Sociales (JUVIR) 👉 www.upf.edu/web/juvenici...
Para saber más sobre nuestro Colectivo Juvenicidio y Resistencias Sociales (JUVIR) 👉 www.upf.edu/web/juvenici...
September 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Profundamente inspirador participar en este encuentro en Medellín la semana pasada junto a tantos queridos colegas!
Para saber más sobre nuestro Colectivo Juvenicidio y Resistencias Sociales (JUVIR) 👉 www.upf.edu/web/juvenici...
Para saber más sobre nuestro Colectivo Juvenicidio y Resistencias Sociales (JUVIR) 👉 www.upf.edu/web/juvenici...
When I visited Gaza in 2019, what struck me most wasn’t the destruction – it was the life.
Now, @WeAreNotNumbers has published its first book: powerful essays by young Gazans (2014–2024).
$15. A youth-led project. A way to see Gaza beyond the numbers.
shorturl.at/p57IQ
Now, @WeAreNotNumbers has published its first book: powerful essays by young Gazans (2014–2024).
$15. A youth-led project. A way to see Gaza beyond the numbers.
shorturl.at/p57IQ
We Are Not Numbers
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July 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
When I visited Gaza in 2019, what struck me most wasn’t the destruction – it was the life.
Now, @WeAreNotNumbers has published its first book: powerful essays by young Gazans (2014–2024).
$15. A youth-led project. A way to see Gaza beyond the numbers.
shorturl.at/p57IQ
Now, @WeAreNotNumbers has published its first book: powerful essays by young Gazans (2014–2024).
$15. A youth-led project. A way to see Gaza beyond the numbers.
shorturl.at/p57IQ
Hello Montreal! So glad to be joining @sasemeeting.bsky.social 2025 as part of a panel series on illegal markets organized by Matias Dewey & Gabriel Feltran! #SASE2025
July 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Hello Montreal! So glad to be joining @sasemeeting.bsky.social 2025 as part of a panel series on illegal markets organized by Matias Dewey & Gabriel Feltran! #SASE2025
Reposted by Elena Butti
📸 The winners of our #PhotoCompetition are:
🏆 Luisa.Lupo, Public Prize – TRACES OF VIOLENCE
🎖️ Nora.Doukkali, Jury Prize – STOLEN TIME
👉 shorturl.at/M8umu
Thanks to all 26 participants, the 580 voters, and the jury:
@juliebillaud.bsky.social, Tobias.Marshall, Antoine.Tardy, @elenabutti.bsky.social
🏆 Luisa.Lupo, Public Prize – TRACES OF VIOLENCE
🎖️ Nora.Doukkali, Jury Prize – STOLEN TIME
👉 shorturl.at/M8umu
Thanks to all 26 participants, the 580 voters, and the jury:
@juliebillaud.bsky.social, Tobias.Marshall, Antoine.Tardy, @elenabutti.bsky.social
RESEARCH PHOTO COMPETITION AT THE GENEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE | IHEID
www.graduateinstitute.ch
May 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
📸 The winners of our #PhotoCompetition are:
🏆 Luisa.Lupo, Public Prize – TRACES OF VIOLENCE
🎖️ Nora.Doukkali, Jury Prize – STOLEN TIME
👉 shorturl.at/M8umu
Thanks to all 26 participants, the 580 voters, and the jury:
@juliebillaud.bsky.social, Tobias.Marshall, Antoine.Tardy, @elenabutti.bsky.social
🏆 Luisa.Lupo, Public Prize – TRACES OF VIOLENCE
🎖️ Nora.Doukkali, Jury Prize – STOLEN TIME
👉 shorturl.at/M8umu
Thanks to all 26 participants, the 580 voters, and the jury:
@juliebillaud.bsky.social, Tobias.Marshall, Antoine.Tardy, @elenabutti.bsky.social
📍 Curious about my recent research on informal housing, migration, and gangs in one of Latin America's largest informal settlements?
📆 Join us TODAY at 3.30 CET for a seminar co-hosted by
@gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social & @gvagrad.bsky.social - in person & online!
🔜 Info: shorturl.at/BwFDk
📆 Join us TODAY at 3.30 CET for a seminar co-hosted by
@gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social & @gvagrad.bsky.social - in person & online!
🔜 Info: shorturl.at/BwFDk
May 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
📍 Curious about my recent research on informal housing, migration, and gangs in one of Latin America's largest informal settlements?
📆 Join us TODAY at 3.30 CET for a seminar co-hosted by
@gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social & @gvagrad.bsky.social - in person & online!
🔜 Info: shorturl.at/BwFDk
📆 Join us TODAY at 3.30 CET for a seminar co-hosted by
@gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social & @gvagrad.bsky.social - in person & online!
🔜 Info: shorturl.at/BwFDk
📸 The Geneva Graduate Institute is holding a research photo competition!
🤓 And I have the honor of being part of the jury - with @juliebillaud.bsky.social, Antoine Tardy, and Tobias Marschall.
💡 You can view the portfolios here shorturl.at/75aqX
📥 and vote your top 3 here shorturl.at/rVNj0
🤓 And I have the honor of being part of the jury - with @juliebillaud.bsky.social, Antoine Tardy, and Tobias Marschall.
💡 You can view the portfolios here shorturl.at/75aqX
📥 and vote your top 3 here shorturl.at/rVNj0
RESEARCH PHOTO COMPETITION AT THE GENEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE | IHEID
www.graduateinstitute.ch
May 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
📸 The Geneva Graduate Institute is holding a research photo competition!
🤓 And I have the honor of being part of the jury - with @juliebillaud.bsky.social, Antoine Tardy, and Tobias Marschall.
💡 You can view the portfolios here shorturl.at/75aqX
📥 and vote your top 3 here shorturl.at/rVNj0
🤓 And I have the honor of being part of the jury - with @juliebillaud.bsky.social, Antoine Tardy, and Tobias Marschall.
💡 You can view the portfolios here shorturl.at/75aqX
📥 and vote your top 3 here shorturl.at/rVNj0
Join us this Thursday at the Université de Genève for a discussion of my recent research on gang-controlled informal housing markets and urban extractivism in Colombia!
💬 Discussed by Armelle Choplin
📍 Thursday 8 May 2025 - 12h30-13h30
🏫 Uni Mail, salle M 4020
lnkd.in/eEA_g6fE
💬 Discussed by Armelle Choplin
📍 Thursday 8 May 2025 - 12h30-13h30
🏫 Uni Mail, salle M 4020
lnkd.in/eEA_g6fE
May 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Join us this Thursday at the Université de Genève for a discussion of my recent research on gang-controlled informal housing markets and urban extractivism in Colombia!
💬 Discussed by Armelle Choplin
📍 Thursday 8 May 2025 - 12h30-13h30
🏫 Uni Mail, salle M 4020
lnkd.in/eEA_g6fE
💬 Discussed by Armelle Choplin
📍 Thursday 8 May 2025 - 12h30-13h30
🏫 Uni Mail, salle M 4020
lnkd.in/eEA_g6fE
📢 Are you an outstanding young activist? Or do you know someone who is?
Nominations for the Young Activists Summit close in five days!
➡️ Info here www.youngactivistssummit.org/events
@ActivistsSummit
Nominations for the Young Activists Summit close in five days!
➡️ Info here www.youngactivistssummit.org/events
@ActivistsSummit
Events | Young Activists Summit
An Official Summit is held annually at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Thousands of young people from all over the world participate online in four languages.
www.youngactivistssummit.org
April 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
📢 Are you an outstanding young activist? Or do you know someone who is?
Nominations for the Young Activists Summit close in five days!
➡️ Info here www.youngactivistssummit.org/events
@ActivistsSummit
Nominations for the Young Activists Summit close in five days!
➡️ Info here www.youngactivistssummit.org/events
@ActivistsSummit
I'm excited to share that I’ve recently signed a book contract with NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social !
The book brings together a decade of doctoral & post-doctoral ethnographic work on adolescentes involved at the bottom of the organized crime hierarchy in contemporary urban Colombia. Stay tuned!
The book brings together a decade of doctoral & post-doctoral ethnographic work on adolescentes involved at the bottom of the organized crime hierarchy in contemporary urban Colombia. Stay tuned!
April 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'm excited to share that I’ve recently signed a book contract with NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social !
The book brings together a decade of doctoral & post-doctoral ethnographic work on adolescentes involved at the bottom of the organized crime hierarchy in contemporary urban Colombia. Stay tuned!
The book brings together a decade of doctoral & post-doctoral ethnographic work on adolescentes involved at the bottom of the organized crime hierarchy in contemporary urban Colombia. Stay tuned!
Only a few days left to send us your abstracts! Hurry up!👇
📚 News! With Guillaume Dumont we are organizing a Paper Development Workshop on 'Housing, Illegality and Criminal Actors' at the Geneva Graduate Institute on 9-10 September 2025.
➡️ To apply, please send us a 500 word abstract & a short bio by March 31st.
👉 Full CfP at rb.gy/dzk23x
➡️ To apply, please send us a 500 word abstract & a short bio by March 31st.
👉 Full CfP at rb.gy/dzk23x
March 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Only a few days left to send us your abstracts! Hurry up!👇
Students interested in anthropology - consider joining the London Anthropology Day!
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Home - London Anthropology Day
London Anthropology Day (LAD) is a FREE annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, undergraduate or graduate students interested in Master's degrees, careers advisers and teachers, org...
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March 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Students interested in anthropology - consider joining the London Anthropology Day!
londonanthropologyday.co.uk
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📍 For Venezuelan migrants in Medellín, building one's own home in an informal settlement can be a key act of rooting and integration, despite having to deal with extractivist gang practices and the threat of violent state evictions.
👉 Curious to know more? Check out my latest short docu-film!
👉 Curious to know more? Check out my latest short docu-film!
El sueño de la casa propia - Short documentary by Elena Butti
YouTube video by Elena Butti
youtu.be
March 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
📍 For Venezuelan migrants in Medellín, building one's own home in an informal settlement can be a key act of rooting and integration, despite having to deal with extractivist gang practices and the threat of violent state evictions.
👉 Curious to know more? Check out my latest short docu-film!
👉 Curious to know more? Check out my latest short docu-film!
Great postdoc opportunity for PhD students from LATAM!
Tinker Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin American Studies in Stanford, CA for Stanford University
Exciting opportunity in Stanford, CA for Stanford University as a Tinker Postdoctoral Fellowship ...
careers.lasaweb.org
March 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Great postdoc opportunity for PhD students from LATAM!
📻 Ayer salimos en Radio UNAL con un conversatorio sobre la migración Venezolana en Medellín!
Puedes escuchar aquí 👉 radio.unal.edu.co/detalle/la-m...
Puedes escuchar aquí 👉 radio.unal.edu.co/detalle/la-m...
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📻 Ayer salimos en Radio UNAL con un conversatorio sobre la migración Venezolana en Medellín!
Puedes escuchar aquí 👉 radio.unal.edu.co/detalle/la-m...
Puedes escuchar aquí 👉 radio.unal.edu.co/detalle/la-m...
📍Curious about my recent research on informal housing, migration, and gangs in one of Latin America's largest self-built settlements?
📅 Mark your calendar for my upcoming seminar at @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social on May 15 - in person & online!
🔜Info shorturl.at/4uc2k
📅 Mark your calendar for my upcoming seminar at @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social on May 15 - in person & online!
🔜Info shorturl.at/4uc2k
February 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
📍Curious about my recent research on informal housing, migration, and gangs in one of Latin America's largest self-built settlements?
📅 Mark your calendar for my upcoming seminar at @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social on May 15 - in person & online!
🔜Info shorturl.at/4uc2k
📅 Mark your calendar for my upcoming seminar at @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social on May 15 - in person & online!
🔜Info shorturl.at/4uc2k
El próximo miércoles, yo y Lirio Gutiérrez (UNAL Medellín), estaremos facilitando una mesa redonda sobre la migración venezolana en la ciudad.Tendremos ponentes de las instituciones y sociedad civil. Participación abierta!
📅 26 Febrero 2025
🏫 UNAL Medellín
📅 26 Febrero 2025
🏫 UNAL Medellín
February 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
El próximo miércoles, yo y Lirio Gutiérrez (UNAL Medellín), estaremos facilitando una mesa redonda sobre la migración venezolana en la ciudad.Tendremos ponentes de las instituciones y sociedad civil. Participación abierta!
📅 26 Febrero 2025
🏫 UNAL Medellín
📅 26 Febrero 2025
🏫 UNAL Medellín
📚 News! With Guillaume Dumont we are organizing a Paper Development Workshop on 'Housing, Illegality and Criminal Actors' at the Geneva Graduate Institute on 9-10 September 2025.
➡️ To apply, please send us a 500 word abstract & a short bio by March 31st.
👉 Full CfP at rb.gy/dzk23x
➡️ To apply, please send us a 500 word abstract & a short bio by March 31st.
👉 Full CfP at rb.gy/dzk23x
February 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
📚 News! With Guillaume Dumont we are organizing a Paper Development Workshop on 'Housing, Illegality and Criminal Actors' at the Geneva Graduate Institute on 9-10 September 2025.
➡️ To apply, please send us a 500 word abstract & a short bio by March 31st.
👉 Full CfP at rb.gy/dzk23x
➡️ To apply, please send us a 500 word abstract & a short bio by March 31st.
👉 Full CfP at rb.gy/dzk23x
📚 First Open Access Paper of 2025!
🔎 In this paper, I critically reflect on my use of participatory research methods in youth research.
🙌 Thanks Carles Feixa & Nele Hansen for coordinating this wonderful Social Sciences special issue!
➡️Link surl.li/ityokl
🔎 In this paper, I critically reflect on my use of participatory research methods in youth research.
🙌 Thanks Carles Feixa & Nele Hansen for coordinating this wonderful Social Sciences special issue!
➡️Link surl.li/ityokl
February 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📚 First Open Access Paper of 2025!
🔎 In this paper, I critically reflect on my use of participatory research methods in youth research.
🙌 Thanks Carles Feixa & Nele Hansen for coordinating this wonderful Social Sciences special issue!
➡️Link surl.li/ityokl
🔎 In this paper, I critically reflect on my use of participatory research methods in youth research.
🙌 Thanks Carles Feixa & Nele Hansen for coordinating this wonderful Social Sciences special issue!
➡️Link surl.li/ityokl
Reposted by Elena Butti
here's @gvagrad.bsky.social stater pack! Just follow all
Here comes the Geneva Graduate Institute starter pack go.bsky.app/NFEFPC4
January 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
here's @gvagrad.bsky.social stater pack! Just follow all
This is the neighbourhood where I work and live in Colombia. It's a 30.000 people self-built settlement in the Medellín outskirts with no state services. With local leaders we developed this fundraising campaign to build the first school. If interested in donating, you can do it here bit.ly/4grNjJl
CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES
YouTube video by Escuela Nueva Jerusalén
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2024 at 10:53 AM
This is the neighbourhood where I work and live in Colombia. It's a 30.000 people self-built settlement in the Medellín outskirts with no state services. With local leaders we developed this fundraising campaign to build the first school. If interested in donating, you can do it here bit.ly/4grNjJl
Yesterday at the IHEID we had a timely & honest discussion on the complexities of contemporary ethnography. For more, check my chapter on the subjective dimensions of ethics & safety, published in Inclusive Ethnography (SAGE 2024) edited by amazing C. Procter & B. Spector 📚
December 11, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Yesterday at the IHEID we had a timely & honest discussion on the complexities of contemporary ethnography. For more, check my chapter on the subjective dimensions of ethics & safety, published in Inclusive Ethnography (SAGE 2024) edited by amazing C. Procter & B. Spector 📚
Next Tuesday we close the year together with my brilliant colleague and friend Caitlin Procter talking of ethics, safety & (mental) health in ethnographic fieldwork. Join us for a timely conversation at the Geneva Graduate Institute Anthropology and Sociology Department!
December 6, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Next Tuesday we close the year together with my brilliant colleague and friend Caitlin Procter talking of ethics, safety & (mental) health in ethnographic fieldwork. Join us for a timely conversation at the Geneva Graduate Institute Anthropology and Sociology Department!
Second roundtable: juvenicidio & resistencias. Featuring Rayen Rovira, Salvador Cruz, Candy Chevez, Wilson Agudelo, German Muñoz, Elena Butti
@wennergrenorg.bsky.social @UPFBarcelona @JOVIS
@wennergrenorg.bsky.social @UPFBarcelona @JOVIS
November 28, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Second roundtable: juvenicidio & resistencias. Featuring Rayen Rovira, Salvador Cruz, Candy Chevez, Wilson Agudelo, German Muñoz, Elena Butti
@wennergrenorg.bsky.social @UPFBarcelona @JOVIS
@wennergrenorg.bsky.social @UPFBarcelona @JOVIS