Silvia Rodríguez Maeso
Biography
PhD in Political Sociology (University of the Basque Country). Silvia is Principal Researcher at CES and member of the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe). She lectures in the PhD Programmes: "Democracy in the 21st Century" (FEUC/CES) and "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies" (CES/IIIUC). She is currently coordinating the research projects: COMBAT - "Combating racism in Portugal: an analysis of public policies and antidiscrimination law" (FCT, 2016-2019); and POLITICS - "The politics of anti-racism in Europe and Latin America: knowledge production, decision-making and collective struggles" (ERC, 2017-2022). Silvia has developed her research interests and teaching activity in postgraduate courses in the areas of critical theories of race and (anti-)racism and decolonial thinking with a focus on the analysis of the relation between power and knowledge production, public policies and socio-legal discourse. She is currently developing research within collaborative projects on racialization and residential segregation, police violence and public policies in European context and in Abya Yala.
ORCIDLatest Publications
Article in Scientific journal
Rodríguez Maeso, Silvia; (2018), ""Europe" and the Narrative of the "True Racist": (Un-)thinking Anti-Discrimination Law through Race", Oñati Socio-legal Series, 8, 6, 845-873
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Irazuzta, Ignacio; Rodriguez Maeso, Silvia; Villalon, Adriana (2017), Las víctimas en la escuela vasca: iniciativas políticas para una 'educación sentimental', in Gabriel Gatti (org.), Un mundo de víctimas. Barcelona: Anthropos, 309-330
Article in Scientific journal
Irazuzta, Ignacio; Rodríguez Maeso, Silvia; Villalón, Adriana M. (2017), "'Victims as Educators': Sentimental Education in a Peace-Building Context", Journal of Human Rights Practice, 9, 1, 50-67
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