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scholarship

special issues

peer-reviewed journal articles

book chapters

  • “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)

book reviews

  • David Syring’s “With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World” Ethnohistory 66(2):407-408. (2019)

  • Raúl Madrid’s “The Rise of Ethnic Parties in Latin America” Bulletin of Latin American Research 34(1): 126-127. (2015)

public scholarship (selected)

  • “Decriminalization with exclusion: Ecuador’s new rape abortion law,” Sexuality Policy Watch (February 2022).

  • “Covid-19 e outras pandemias: extrativisimo e genocídio na Abya Yala” Revista Rosa (May 2020).

  • “Ecuador’s Not-So-Pink Tide: A Citizen’s Revolution Against Its Citizens,” co-author with Grace Jaramillo, Open Democracy / Democracia Abierta (September 2018).

  • “Democratizar el matrimonio en Ecuador: la justicia constitucional frente a los derechos de la población LGBTI,” co-author with Catalina Mendoza Eskola, Sexuality Policy Watch (July 2018).

  • “Ecuador’s Expanding Extractive Frontier,” co-author Diana Coryat, NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 48(3): 280-283 (2016).

  • “Unsafe Abortion: Another Facet of Femicide in Latin America,” Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights, CLAM (October 29, 2014).

  • “Cuando las protestas urbanas se unen a las luchas Indígenas,” Revista Coyuntura, University of Cuenca, Vol. 15: 34-43 (2013).

  • “Conversation with Carlos Pérez Guartambel: Indigenous Resistance in the Andes,” NACLA (November 18, 2013).

  • “Ecuador’s Left Punishes Women Rights,” Sexuality Policy Watch (October 17, 2013).

  • “Gay Pride in the Amazon,” Americas Quarterly, Web Exclusive (January 11, 2012).

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