Cristina Rojas
Indigeneity, postcolonialism, civilization, violence and politics
| Degrees: | MA (Universidad Pedagógica, Bogotá), EdM (Harvard), PhD (Carleton) |
| Email: | cristina.rojas@carleton.ca |
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 Carleton 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 Carleton 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. 2nd 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.