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Belén García

Student Assistant

Belén García is a student assistant for the SevenFrontiers: The Global South in the Age of Early Industrial Capitalism project. Her research focuses on Latin America’s mining frontier during the period of “informal empire” (1816–1870), with a particular emphasis on local perspectives and the extractive dynamics that shaped labour, land use, and social relations in the region. Her studies aim to investigate the multidimensional relationships between imperial/transnational actors, regional elites, and popular sectors, drawing on Latin American scholarship on resource extraction and capitalist expansion.

In parallel, she is part of the Observatory of Extractive Industries (OIE), an initiative that collects, organizes, and democratizes data on natural resource exploitation in Central America, developing methodologies for making archival and statistical material accessible, a practice closely tied to her interest in how archives preserve and challenge narratives in the Global South.

She holds a BA in Media and Culture from the University of Amsterdam and is currently pursuing a Dual Master’s in Archival and Information Studies at the same university.

Belen Garcia