Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies

HCIAS Publications and Science Communication

HCIAS Publications and Science Communication is a platform run by the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS). The HCIAS is an interdisciplinary center of Heidelberg University, Germany, dedicated to research, teaching, and knowledge transfer. Research at the HCIAS contributes to current debates on the social, cultural, ecological, and communicative realities of Ibero-America with diverse perspectives from the humanities and the social sciences. We are committed to making this knowledge accessible to both the scientific community and society at large through academic publications and science communication in multiple formats.

Recent publications by HCIAS Scholars

Inequalities | Transformations | Sustainability

Hernández Westpfahl, R. (2026) State selectivities in Mexico’s 4th transformation: Indigenous consultation in the San José Mining Project, Oaxaca, Mexico. Journal of Political Ecology 33(1), Article 8349. https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.8349

Politics | Communication | Participation

Ecker, A. (2025). Coalition bargaining duration. In T. Bräuninger, M. Debus (Eds.), Handbook on Coalition Politics, (pp. 399-417). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.  https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803929569.00034

Language | Communication | Cognition

Loureda, Ó., Teucher, M., Cruz, A., Hernández Pérez, C., & Gelormini-Lezama, C. (2025). Cognitive processing of anaphoric encapsulation and coreference in native Spanish speakers: an experimental approach with eye tracking. Discourse Processes, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2025.2558307

Migrations | Multilingualism | Identities

Moreno-Fernández, F. (2025). Para una demografía del español de Panamá. In Boletín de la Academia Panameña de la Lengua (Época VIII, n. 1, pp. 35-54). Academia Panameña de la Lengua. ISSN: L 3122-6167.

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