scholarship

“The Spanish Empires and Its Legacies: From Violence and Mistranslation to Decolonizing Indigenous Sexualities,” co-authored with Julis César Calderón in Colonialisms and Queer Politics, edited by Matthew Waites, Sonia Correa and Gustavo Gomes. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (forthcoming 2025)

“Love Beyond the State: Ancestral Marriage from a Kichwa Nation to the UN and Back,” in The Oxford Handbook of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory, edited by B. Ackerly, L Cabrera, M. Deveaux, F. Forman, GFuji Johnson, and Gina Starblanket. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2025)

“Gender and Sexuality” with Momin Rahman in Vicki Robinson and Diane Richardson (eds) Introducing Gender and Women's Studies, MacMillan (6th edition, 2025).

“Sexual Removals: Indigenous Genders and Sexualities as Territory” in Ann McGrath and Lynette Russell (eds) The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History. New York: Routledge. p 365-378. (2022)

“Les passeports amérindiens comme acte anticolonial,” in MIGREUROP, Atlas des Migrations dans le Monde. Paris: Armand Colin. (2022)

“Gender and Sexuality” with Momin Rahman in Vicki Robinson and Diane Richardson (eds) Introducing Gender and Women's Studies, MacMillan 5th edition (2020).

“Despojo como genocidio: extractivismo contra pueblos indígenas en Abya Yala” in Alberto Lozano and Abelardo Rodriguez, Seguridad y Asuntos Internacionales, Mexico: Siglo XXI. (2020)

“No Sex Revolution on the Left: LGB Rights in Ecuador” with María Amelia Viteri in Paula Gerber, Worldwide Perspectives on Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals: Culture, History and Law. Santa Barbara: Praeger Press. (2021)

“Sex, Tongue and International Relations” with Caroline Cottet in Sexuality and Translation in World Politics, co-editor with Caroline Cottet (E-International Relations). (2019)

“Indigenous Sexualities: Resisting Conquest and Translation” with Josi Tikuna in Sexuality and Translation in World Politics, co-editor with Caroline Cottet (E-International Relations). (2019)

“Ecuador: The Citizen’s Revolution Against Its Citizens,” With Grace Jaramillo in Franscesc Badia I Dalmases and Sergio Costa (eds) Condemned to Inequality: From the Pink Tide to the Turn to the Right (p.56-63). (2019)

“Kichwa Women Gendering Collective Rights in Ecuador” in Márcia Calazans, Mary Castro, and Emilia Piñeiro, America Latina: corpos, trânsitos, e resistências. Porto Alegre: Editora Fi. (2018)

“Indigenous Politics of Resistance: An Introduction,” New Diversities 19(2): 1-6. (2017)

“Activismo y academia: Complementariedad en la resistencia” with Rasu Manuel Paza and Yaku Pérez Guartambel in Catherine Walsh, Pedagogías decoloniales: Prácticas insurgentes de resistir, (re)existir) y (re)vivir. Quito: Abya Yala. (2016)

“Simultaneous Translations--Finding My Core in the Periphery” in Elizabeth Dauphinee and Naeem Inayatullah, Narrative Global Politics. London: Routledge. (2016)

“Inventing Rights of Our Own: Indigenous Rights with Gender Parity in Ecuador,” in David Lehman, The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Latin America. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. (2016)

“Queering Amazonia: Homo-Affective Relations among Tikuna Society” with Josi Tikuna in María Amelia Viteri and Manuela Picq, Queering Narratives of Modernity Peter Lang/FLACSO: 113-134. (2016)

“Droit à l’autodétermination contre extractivisme: Comment la résistance autochtone modifie les relations internationales,” in Yves-Marie Abraham and David Murray, Creuser jusqu’où? Extractivisme et limites à la croissance. Montreal: Eco-société: 271-283. (2015)

“Extrativismo: a pedra no caminho do desenvolvimento,” in Pedro de Souza, Brasil, Sociedade em Movimento. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra/Celso Furtado: 213-222. (2015)

“Peripheral Prides: Contributions of LGBTQ Studies to Post-Colonial Thought” in Manuela Picq & Markus Thiel, Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ Claims Shape International Relations. New York: Routledge Intervention Series: 108-123. (2015)

“Self-Determination as Anti-Extractivism: How Indigenous Resistance Challenges IR” in Marc Woons (ed.), Restoring Indigenous Self Determination, E-IR: 26-33. (2014)

“Direitos Humanos e Questão Social,” in Anete Ivo (ed.), Dicionário Desenvolvimento e Questão Social, São Paulo: Annablume: 190-195. (2014)

“Indigenous Worlding: Kichwa Women Pluralizing Sovereignty,” in Arlene Tickner and David Blaney (eds.), Claiming the International, New York: Routledge: 121-140. (2013)

“Trapped Between Gender and Ethnicity: Identity Politics in Ecuador,” in Roger Coate and Markus Thiel (eds.), Identity Politics in the Age of Globalization. Boulder: First Forum Press: 31- 56. (2010)

“Exclusión política de mujeres indígenas en Chimborazo,” in Andrea Pequeño (ed.), Participación y políticas de mujeres indígenas en América Latina. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO/Ministerio de Cultura: 125-143. (2009)

“Gender Within Ethnicity: Human Rights and Identity Politics in Ecuador,” Guillermo O’Donnell, Joseph Tulchin, and Augusto Varas (eds.), New Voices in the Study of Democracy in Latin America, Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: 273-307. (2008)