Arturo started following the work of Luis Gomez Romero, McGill University, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas.
Arturo started following the work of Raquel (Lucas) Platero, Complutense University of Madrid, Ciencia Política y de la Administración III.
Arturo started following the work of Luis Eslava, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School.
University of Kent, Canterbury
Department Member, School of Law
Thesis Title: Sexual Rights in Latin America, Lessons of Resistance and Empowerment from Mexico City
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Dr. Kate Bedford
Professor Didi Herman |
About
My PhD project aims to explore the specific role of Latin American discourses in the global debate around sexual rights. While a fixed concept of sexual rights is still not established, I recognize them as a site of encounter between human rights claims and sexuality for groups of feminists, women, LGBT, and HIV related activists, who stand up for their emancipatory potential when they participate in legal reforms on gender and sexuality, and use them as a strategy of resistances against states that cannot be assumed as competent, purposive, coherent and capable.
I am interested in the continuity of the project for emancipation of sexual rights, if not in sequential legal reforms, in the empowerment of the activists and the networks that they participate with, and the question for ‘sexual subjectivity’ and micropolitics. My broader interests range from feminist legal theory, postcolonial and transnational feminism, sexuality, queer studies, to Latin American feminisms and politics.
