Bladimir Carabalí
Postdoctoral Fellow (2025)
Bladimir Carabalí has centered his work on the study of inequalities affecting Afro-Colombian communities. His research focuses on the demographic impacts of the armed conflict, with particular emphasis on mortality patterns among the predominantly Black population of the Pacific Coast of Colombia, a region marked by long-standing structures of social exclusion and abandonment. During his postdoctoral fellowship at CSAAD, Carabalí is revising his most recent work Social Suffering and Armed Violence in the Black Geographies of Colombia. In this work, he offers a critical analysis of how racialized historical processes in Colombia’s Pacific region intersect with contemporary armed conflict to deepen marginalization, violence, and social suffering in these Black territories.
Carabalí holds a BA in Economics from Universidad del Valle (Colombia), an MA in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and a PhD in Demography from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil. His academic trajectory has focused on understanding the ethnic-racial structures of inequality vis-à-vis mortality, fertility, migration, access to health care, educational achievements and labor market. This work has allowed him to rigorously engage with the complex demographic and social dynamics of regions with high concentrations of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian populations.
Dr Carabalí has served as a visiting professor and researcher in several academic institutions and organizations institutions and organizations focusing on inequality, human rights, and population dynamics. More recently he has worked as a consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Colombia on demographic issues concerning Afro-descendant populations and as an expert for the Colombia’s National Truth Commission.