BIOGRAPHIE

 Lukas Becker is a PhD researcher at the Department of History, Economics, and Society at the University of Geneva. He holds a Master of Arts in History from the University of Zurich. For is master's thesis, he looked at the role of the archives of social movements in the armed conflict in Barrancabermeja, Colombia in the 1990s and early 2000s. His PhD thesis, focusing on the role of social and labor movements in the Colombian oil industry as well as the environmental history of oil towns across Latin America, is part of the SNF Eccellenza Project “AnthropoSouth: Latin American Oil Revolutions in the Development Century”.