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Cristina Rojas

Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science

Professor

Cristina Rojas is professor in the Department of Political Science  at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ 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 Paraguayâ€� 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 ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ 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

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

Narratives and Imaginaries of Citizenship in Latin America, Routledge, 2014. With Judy Meltzer.

“Acts of Indigenship: Historical struggles for equality and colonial difference in Boliviaâ€�, Citizenship Studies, forthcoming issue August 2013.

“Reversing Interventionism in Twentieth-first-century South Americaâ€�, with Gustavo Morales (second author), in Arne Bigsten (ed) 2013, Globalization and Development. Rethinking Interventions and Governance, Routledge, 129-144

“Transformations in imaginings and practices of citizenship in Latin Americaâ€�, with Judy Meltzer (main author), in Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies, forthcoming.

“Securing the State and Developing Social Insecurities: The Securitisation of Citizenship in Contemporary Colombiaâ€�. Third World Quarterly. 30:1, 2009.

“International Political Economy/Development Otherwiseâ€�. Globalizations. Vol.4:4, December 2007.

“Governing through the social: representation of poverty and global governmentalityâ€�, in Global Governmentality; Wendy Larner and William Walters (eds). Routledge Press, 2005.

Civilization and Violence. Regimes of Representation in Nineteenth Century Colombia. University of Minnesota Press. 2002.