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Cristina Rojas

Indigeneity, postcolonialism, civilization, violence and politics

• MA (Universidad Pedagógica, Bogotá), EdM (Harvard), PhD (�Ӱ�ԭ��)
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Distinguished Research Professor

Cristina Rojas is a distinguished research professor in the Department of Political Science and was the director of the Institute of Political Economy at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University (Canada). Her academic research includes political ontology, indigeneity, peace and citizenship studies. Presently she is doing a research project “Territory Making as World Making: a Participatory Comparison of Indigenous-state Conflicts in Bolivia and Paraguay” financed with an SSHRC grant. She won the Distinguished Fellow Award (2019) from the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies; and the Eminent Scholar Award from the Global Development Section, International Studies Association (2016). The Faculty of Public Affairs �Ӱ�ԭ�� University granted the Research Award (2015) and the Graduate Students Mentoring Award (2015). She is the author of Civilization and Violence: Regimes of Representation in Nineteenth Century Colombia, co-editor of Narratives and Imaginings of Citizenship in Latin America and Elusive Peace: International, National and Local Dimensions of Conflict in Colombia.

Selected Publications

Alternativas civilizatorias: propuestas de las comunidades negras desde la emancipación de la esclavitud hasta el acuerdo de paz. In Civilización y Violencia. La busqueda de la Identidad en el siglo XIX en Colombia. 2^nd Edition, 2023, pp. 323-352.

Countering governmentality: enacting diverging territorialities by former enslaved people in Cauca, Colombia (1849–1886). In William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (Eds). Handbook on Governmentality, Edward Elgar. Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA, USA, 2023, 389-404.

Ontological disputes between Indigenous communities and the state in Bolivia. Third World Thematics, A TWQ Journal, 3:4, 2018, 479-495

Contesting the Colonial Logics of the International; Toward a Relational Politics for the Pluriverse. International Political Sociology. 10:4, 2016, 369-382

Contestando as Lógicas Coloniais do Internacional: rumo a uma política relacional para o Pluriverso, (translation to Portuguese), Special Issue Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais UFGD, 2020, 519-543  

Civilization and Violence. Regimes of Representation in Nineteenth Century Colombia. University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 1-170.