Ph.D. Ailynn Torres Santana
Ailynn Torres Santana is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Gender Studies at FLACSO Ecuador. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counterstrategies (IRGAC) (2019-2022), a visiting researcher at Freie Universität Berlin (2021), and a visiting scholar at Northwestern University, Chicago (Fall 2021). She has been an associate professor at universities in Latin America (University of Havana and FLACSO, Ecuador), Europe (University of Barcelona and Freie Universität Berlin) and the United States (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). In 2019, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard University.
Her research interests relate to the relationships between state transformations, gender politics, and feminist movements; to care work (paid and unpaid) and intersectional inequalities; and to anti-gender politics and religious neoconservatism.
Selected Publications:
“A multiscalar feminist project for a care right: angles for a deepening understanding”. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society. Volume 31, Issue 4, Winter, Pages 737–741. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxae022
“Forging a New Woman Within the Cuban Revolution”, in Haan, Francisca de. Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists Around the World. Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13127-1_25
“Anti-Feminist Crosses from Latin America: Religious Neoconservatisms, Authoritarian Neoliberalism, and Beyond”, in IRGAC (ed) Global Authoritarianism. Perspectives and Contestations from the South, Political Science | Volume 132. 2022
“Renta básica universal y renta de cuidados en los debates feministas. La perspectiva de la reapropiación de la riqueza”. Política y Sociedad. 59(2). 2022
“Freedom, Autonomy, and (Inter)dependency: Feminist Dialogues and Republican Debates on Democracy”. Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory. Issue 171, Vol. 69, No. 2 (June). 2022
Derechos en riesgo en América Latina: 11 estudios sobre grupos neoconservadores (ed). Fundación Rosa Luxemburg& Desde Abajo. Quito, Ecuador & Bogotá, Colombia. 2020
e-mail: aitorresuflacso.edupec
