Beatriz Juárez-Rodríguez
Areas of Interest Political anthropology, race and racism, social movement and the state in Latin America, Black and Afro-Latin feminisms, African diaspora, memory and territory, social justice, community-based methodologies, and the interrelationship between scholarship, pedagogy, and political engagement.
About Dr. Juarez Rodriguez's teaching and research interests include Afrodescendants rights, race and racism, social movement, anthropology of the state, Black and Afro-Latin feminisms, memory and territory, African diaspora, social justice, and collaborative methodologies. Her publications and community-based research projects focus on Ecuador, El Salvador, and Venezuela.
In earlier research, Dr. Juarez Rodriguez conducted a political ethnography among Black women’s organizations in the north highland region of Ecuador, that aimed to analyse their political practices and anti-racist discourses to show how Black women were and still are challenging state exclusionary and racist public policies. She continues to work on how Black women in Ecuador are resignifying their past, theorizing their present and imagining their future by analysing their anti-racist and feminist pedagogies and political praxis.
Dr. Juarez Rodriguez is currently a co-researcher in the project Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador, a SSHRC-funded international research partnership that is committed to documenting the history of Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992) from the perspective of the survivors of different state-sponsored massacres. Following a collaborative and participatory methodology, Dr. Juarez Rodriguez's research team is developing a historical memory community book in Las Vueltas community in Chalatenango, El Salvador, that aims to revitalize, mobilize, and amplify local historical narratives, cultural practices, and collective actions that have been silenced by official historical narratives. For more information: https://www.elsalvadormemory.org/what-we-do
Supervisions Completed
Karla Salgado-Navarrete. MA program. Migration and Diaspora Studies. Major Research Essay on Exploring Anti-Immigration Sentiments within Mexican Migration Policies and News Outlets emerging from the Venezuelan Migration Crisis.
Publications Juárez Rodríguez, Beatriz. Black Women’s Practices in the Struggle for Peace and Justice in Ecuador. In Critical Feminist Peace and Conflict Studies: Bringing Critique, Vision, and Praxis. McLean, Lisa and Jafari Sheherazade eds. University of Edinburgh Press [Forthcoming]
Juárez Rodríguez, Beatriz. 2023. Black women’s geographies of resistance and the Afro-Ecuadorian Ancestral Territory of Imbabura and Carchi. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.18(4):528-550.
Juárez Rodríguez, Beatriz and Barbarita Lara. 2023. Panteón Viejo “Jardín de la Memoria de los Ancestros Martina Carrillo”. Una apuesta político-territorial de la diáspora africana en el Ecuador [“The Garden of Ancestral Memory Martina Carrillo. A Political-Territorial Project of the African Diaspora in Ecuador"]. Cadernos do Lepaarq. XX (40):19-39.
Juárez Rodríguez, Beatriz. 2018. “Estado Vivido y Estado Anhelado: Etnografía de lo Político a Partir de los Marcos Discursivos Producidos en la Comunidad Rural de El Jobito, estado Miranda” [“Lived State and Desired State: Political Ethnography in the Rural Community of El Jobito, Barlovento”]. Journal Fermentun 28 (82): 308-340
Caballero, Hortensia, Krisna Ruette, and Beatriz Juárez (invited editors) (2018) “Introducción: Hacia una Etnografía de lo Político en la Venezuela Contemporanea” [“Introduction. Toward a Political Ethnography in Contemporary Venezuela”]. Journal Fermentun 28 (82): 215-242. Juárez Rodríguez, Beatriz. 2013. “Representación e Imagen del Policía de Caracas: Apuntes para el Debate sobre la Convivencia Ciudadana.” [“Representations and Images of the Caracas Policeman: Notes for the Debate on Citizen Coexistence”]. Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales 19 (1):111-146.
