Ariadna Estévez – författare

This book uses human rights as part of a constructivist methodology designed to establish a causal relationship between human rights violations and different types of social and political conflict in Europe and North America.

This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.

This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.

This book uses human rights as part of a constructivist methodology designed to establish a causal relationship between human rights violations and different types of social and political conflict in Europe and North America.

This book uses human rights as part of a constructivist methodology designed to establish a causal relationship between human rights violations and different types of social and political conflict in Europe and North America.

This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.

Using examples from the United States—Mexico border, Central America, and South America, this book argues that forced migration is not a spontaneous phenomenon, but rather a product of necropolitical strategies designed to depopulate resource rich countries or regions. Estevez merges necropolitical analysis with postcolonial migration and offers a new framework to study the set of policies, laws, institutions, and political discourses producing a profit in a legal context in which habitat devastation is legal, but mobility is a crime. Violence, deprivation of food or water, environmental contamination, and rights exclusion are some of the tactics used in extractivist capitalism. Private and state actors alike, use necropower, both its first and third world versions, to make people, living and dead, a commodity.

This book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America.

This book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America. It works to characterize and analyze the particularities and relational differences of American and Canadian necropowers vis-à-vis their devices, subjectivities, necroempowered subjects, and production of spaces of death in their geographical and symbolic borderlands with the Third World: the US-Mexico border, indigenous lands, migrant and Black-American ​neighborhoods, and resource rich geographies. North American necropowers not only profit from death, but also conduct disposable populations to death throughout the region. The volume proposes a postcolonial perspective that characterizes the political power of North America as a necropower—or the sovereign power to make die. Each chapter therefore theorizes and analyzes the specificities of necropower, examining different necropolitics that range from asylum and migration restrictions to the economic exploitation and abandonment of deprived populations and policing of ethnic minorities, in particular Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples, and African Am​erican communities.

This book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America.

Los autores de esta obra analizan los derechos humanos como relaciones de poder, discursos políticos y performativos, normas internacionales, organización institucional y movilización social. Esto nos obliga a pensar los derechos humanos desde diferentes ciencias sociales: la sociología política y jurídica, la antropología jurídica, las políticas públicas, la teoría de la democracia, entre otras. Desde la perspectiva que dan estas disciplinas, siguen vigentes muchas preguntas sobre los derechos humanos: ¿empoderan o desempoderan a los sujetos colectivos?, ¿ayudan a oponerse al poder criminal?, ¿mantienen o confrontan el estatu quo? ¿la universidad de los derechos constituye o se opone a la diversidad cultural?, ¿responden a la equidad social o se sirven de ella?, ¿cómo inciden en este debate las orientaciones de perspectiva de género y diversidad sexual?, ¿qué papel cumplen en la construcción de una memoria colectiva?, ¿cómo impactan en la normatividad internacional los movimientos sociales transnacionales?Esta edición, actualizada y ampliada, es un referente en la enseñanza y el estudio multidisciplinario de los derechos humanos. Su originalidad radica en que proporciona a estudiantes, profesores, investigadores, y activistas sociales una visión que plantea una agenda social, política, antropológica, internacionalista, feminista y de políticas públicas para los derechos humanos.

Análisis crítico con un enfoque multidisciplinario, único hasta ahora en México, de las oportunidades y desafíos de los derechos humanos. Los autores aquí reunidos analizan los derechos humanos como una práctica social que se realiza en medio de relaciones asimétricas de poder, en el marco del ya convulsionado siglo xxi. Pensados como un discurso que se convierte en práctica social y en campo de disputa para la definición de significados, los derechos humanos pueden generar marcos de oportunidad para la transformación político-social pero, también, pueden constituir un obstáculo para el cambio y la construcción de subjetividades emancipadas.