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Ariadna Estévez

Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Ariadna Estévez holds a PhD in Human Rights (University of Sussex, UK). She is a full-time researcher (tenured professor) at the Centre for Research on North America (CISAN) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is National Researcher (Level 2) and teaches the courses The Necropolitical Apparatus of Forced Migration and Research Seminar On Biopolitics and Necropolitics, at UNAM’s Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. She is convener of the Diploma in Human Rights Critique at the Instituto de Estudios Críticos 17 (Institute of Critical Studies 17), where she also teaches feminist and critical approaches to human rights. She is co-coordinator of the Research in Progress Seminar on Critical Legal Studies and Migration, at UNAM’s Institute of Legal Research (CISAN-IIJ). Currently she is writing the book "Making people disposable: the necropolitical production and management of forced migration" (Lexington Books/UNAM, upcoming). Her research interests include:
-Biopolitics and necropolitics in North America
-Forced migration and asylum in North America
- Human rights critical studies
- Geographies of death and necropolitical spaces
- Post-sructuralist methodologies (genealogy, biopolitics, governmentality, necropolitics, discourse analyses)
- Critical studies of political, criminal and gender violence
- Socio-legal analysis of film and tv series

Experience

  • –present
    Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)