A Montoya
Biographic Data
| ID | 22199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Montoya |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Montoya |
| SIGNATURE | MONTOYA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Advanced Study |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7052-4318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Las culturas legales del subsuelo. Investigación, docencia y divulgación sobre extractivismo minero y sus vulneraciones de derechos
Este artículo presenta la base de datos “Las culturas legales del subsuelo”, un recurso para la investigación y la docencia sobre las acciones jurídico-políticas relacionadas con conflictos mineros juridificados en Centroamérica y México y examina su valor en la coyuntura actual. Alojada por la Escuela de Estudios Avanzados de la Universidad de Londres y desarrollada en dos etapas correspondientes a sendos proyectos de investigación relacionados,…
Mapping Out Juridified Conflicts over Mining: The Legal Cultures of the Subsoil Database
Indigenous peoples, rural and peasant populations, and Afro-descendants have increasingly disputed mining and other extractive ventures in the territories they inhabit in various regions of Latin America. This article introduces an open-access digital and bilingual curated repository of data that compiles legal and legal-like actions by various actors in the context of paradigmatic conflicts over mining in Central America and Mexico. It situates …
Troubling environmental governance: Citizen legal experiments with transboundary commons
Environmental phenomena shed light on the fiction that inter-state borders constitute on some level, and the limitations of state-based environmental governance. Transboundary watersheds, in particular, flow across borders of different kinds, evincing the interdependence of water bodies, both human and nonhuman. The lack of cross-border comprehensive environmental governance imposes regional forms of inequity and inefficient forms of water protec…
Citizens as lawmakers: Legal innovation and the competing moralities of environmental juridification
Law has increasingly become a relevant political language and a field of political contestation for citizens. In the context of socioenvironmental disputes, citizens have appealed to the courts or become involved in lawmaking as means of asserting their rights and worldviews. Such citizen engagements with law, I argue, amount to a form of worldmaking, as they allow for the introduction of situated moral values that challenge existing notions, roo…
Recurrent Plasmodium vivax Cases of Both Short and Long Latency Increased with Transmission Intensity and Were Distributed Year-Round in the Most Affected Municipalities of the RACCN, Nicaragua, 2013–…
The characteristics of P. vivax recurrent episodes were examined using a centralized secondary source of malaria records in Nicaragua and in the two most affected municipalities in the RACCN. The study of 36,787 malaria cases due to P. vivax or P. falciparum revealed that, nationwide, 3624 patients had at least one recurrent infection. This was achieved by matching names, gender, age, community/municipality, ethnicity, etc. P. vivax was responsib…
Presentación del dossier. Extractivismo minero en América Latina: La juridificación de los conflictos socioambientales
Presentación del dossier. Extractivismo minero en América Latina: la juridificación de los conflictos socioambientales
Post-extractive juridification: Undoing the legal foundations of mining in El Salvador
In 2017 El Salvador passed the world’s first and only blanket ban on metal mining. This article explores this unique exception to the neoextractive path followed by much of Latin America since the early 2000s—an exception brought about by citizen-led lawmaking processes. Drawing from fieldwork research in El Salvador, I suggest that the ban was enabled not so much by a negative assessment of extraction-led development as by multiple other factors…
On Care for Our Common Home: Ecological Materiality and Sovereignty over the Lempa Transboundary Watershed
For over a decade, Salvadorean grassroots movements and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) pursued legal innovations with the aim of protecting their water sources from potentially polluting industrial activities such as mining. They initially drafted bans on mining that would preclude the extractive-based development path embraced by neighbouring countries. Eventually, they scaled up their approach and devised a draft proposal for a transboun…
Juridificación multiescalar frente a la industria minera: Experiencias de Centroamérica y México
La multiescalaridad es una característica central de la gobernanza neoliberal de los modelos extractivistas que se construyen entretejiendo múltiples niveles y jurisdicciones del derecho público y privado. En este artículo exponemos las complejas relaciones entre el panorama multiescalar de pluralismo legal global que estructura los conflictos socioambientales sobre la minería, los procesos de juridificación y las variadas formas de violencia que…
Introduction: Resource Engagements: Experiencing Extraction in Latin America
Peer reviewed
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
The Violence of Democracy
La insostenibilidad de la Universidad pública neoliberal: Hacia una etnografía de la precariedad en la Academia
Partiendo de una preocupación por la Universidad, que cada vez más se sostiene sobre contratos precarios, apuntamos posibles aspectos a abordar en futuros análisis de la precariedad en la academia, especialmente de sus dimensiones más invisibles, aquellas que se concretan en prácticas neoliberales a las que nos adherimos en nuestro quehacer cotidiano y que (nos) vulnerabilizan a la par que convierten el trabajo en la academia en una labor individ…
La reedición del conflicto: La política electoral en El Salvador de la posguerra
Este artículo argumenta que, en El Salvador de la posguerra, amplios sectores de la población han incorporado distintas formas de violencia en sus imaginarios de la democracia, así como en su subjetividad y prácticas políticas. A partir de la investigación etnográfica realizada en el contexto de las elecciones presidenciales de 2009 y 2014 en el departamento de La Paz, el artículo demuestra que las disputas electorales de la posguerra entre los p…
The Value of Open Access in Anthropology and Beyond
This commentary seeks to engage the issue of 'impact' in social anthropology by scrutinising the topic of open access. Drawing on the discussions that took place at the international conference 'FAQs about Open Access: The Political Economy of Knowledge in Anthropology and Beyond', held in October 2014 in Madrid, we suggest that addressing the topic of open access allows a two-fold goal. On one hand, it elucidates that public debates about open a…
The Turn of the Offended
This article explores how the affective dynamics involved in elections and routine politics might inform us about the conditions of possibility of specific political imaginaries. It builds upon research conducted during and after El Salvador's 2009 presidential election. Passions ran high among Salvadorans on both the left and the right that electoral season, as allusions to wartime elicited unsettled divisions and offenses. For many left-wing an…
Ethnographies of the Opportunities and Risks of Neoliberalisation
Introduction to the special issue 'Ethnographies of the Opportunities and Risks of Neoliberalisation
La insostenibilidad de la Universidad pública neoliberal: Hacia una etnografía de la precariedad en la Academia
Partiendo de una preocupación por la Universidad, que cada vez más se sostiene sobre contratos precarios, apuntamos posibles aspectos a abordar en futuros análisis de la precariedad en la academia, especialmente de sus dimensiones más invisibles, aquellas que se concretan en prácticas neoliberales a las que nos adherimos en nuestro quehacer cotidiano y que (nos) vulnerabilizan a la par que convierten el trabajo en la academia en una labor individ…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Post-extractive juridification: Undoing the legal foundations of mining in El Salvador
In 2017 El Salvador passed the world’s first and only blanket ban on metal mining. This article explores this unique exception to the neoextractive path followed by much of Latin America since the early 2000s—an exception brought about by citizen-led lawmaking processes. Drawing from fieldwork research in El Salvador, I suggest that the ban was enabled not so much by a negative assessment of extraction-led development as by multiple other factors…
Introduction: Resource Engagements: Experiencing Extraction in Latin America
Peer reviewed
Citizens as lawmakers: Legal innovation and the competing moralities of environmental juridification
Law has increasingly become a relevant political language and a field of political contestation for citizens. In the context of socioenvironmental disputes, citizens have appealed to the courts or become involved in lawmaking as means of asserting their rights and worldviews. Such citizen engagements with law, I argue, amount to a form of worldmaking, as they allow for the introduction of situated moral values that challenge existing notions, roo…
Presentación del dossier. Extractivismo minero en América Latina: La juridificación de los conflictos socioambientales
Presentación del dossier. Extractivismo minero en América Latina: la juridificación de los conflictos socioambientales
On Care for Our Common Home: Ecological Materiality and Sovereignty over the Lempa Transboundary Watershed
For over a decade, Salvadorean grassroots movements and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) pursued legal innovations with the aim of protecting their water sources from potentially polluting industrial activities such as mining. They initially drafted bans on mining that would preclude the extractive-based development path embraced by neighbouring countries. Eventually, they scaled up their approach and devised a draft proposal for a transboun…
Juridificación multiescalar frente a la industria minera: Experiencias de Centroamérica y México
La multiescalaridad es una característica central de la gobernanza neoliberal de los modelos extractivistas que se construyen entretejiendo múltiples niveles y jurisdicciones del derecho público y privado. En este artículo exponemos las complejas relaciones entre el panorama multiescalar de pluralismo legal global que estructura los conflictos socioambientales sobre la minería, los procesos de juridificación y las variadas formas de violencia que…
The Value of Open Access in Anthropology and Beyond
This commentary seeks to engage the issue of 'impact' in social anthropology by scrutinising the topic of open access. Drawing on the discussions that took place at the international conference 'FAQs about Open Access: The Political Economy of Knowledge in Anthropology and Beyond', held in October 2014 in Madrid, we suggest that addressing the topic of open access allows a two-fold goal. On one hand, it elucidates that public debates about open a…
The Turn of the Offended
This article explores how the affective dynamics involved in elections and routine politics might inform us about the conditions of possibility of specific political imaginaries. It builds upon research conducted during and after El Salvador's 2009 presidential election. Passions ran high among Salvadorans on both the left and the right that electoral season, as allusions to wartime elicited unsettled divisions and offenses. For many left-wing an…
Ethnographies of the Opportunities and Risks of Neoliberalisation
Introduction to the special issue 'Ethnographies of the Opportunities and Risks of Neoliberalisation
The Violence of Democracy
La insostenibilidad de la Universidad pública neoliberal: Hacia una etnografía de la precariedad en la Academia
Partiendo de una preocupación por la Universidad, que cada vez más se sostiene sobre contratos precarios, apuntamos posibles aspectos a abordar en futuros análisis de la precariedad en la academia, especialmente de sus dimensiones más invisibles, aquellas que se concretan en prácticas neoliberales a las que nos adherimos en nuestro quehacer cotidiano y que (nos) vulnerabilizan a la par que convierten el trabajo en la academia en una labor individ…
La reedición del conflicto: La política electoral en El Salvador de la posguerra
Este artículo argumenta que, en El Salvador de la posguerra, amplios sectores de la población han incorporado distintas formas de violencia en sus imaginarios de la democracia, así como en su subjetividad y prácticas políticas. A partir de la investigación etnográfica realizada en el contexto de las elecciones presidenciales de 2009 y 2014 en el departamento de La Paz, el artículo demuestra que las disputas electorales de la posguerra entre los p…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Introduction: Resource Engagements: Experiencing Extraction in Latin America
Peer reviewed
On Care for Our Common Home: Ecological Materiality and Sovereignty over the Lempa Transboundary Watershed
For over a decade, Salvadorean grassroots movements and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) pursued legal innovations with the aim of protecting their water sources from potentially polluting industrial activities such as mining. They initially drafted bans on mining that would preclude the extractive-based development path embraced by neighbouring countries. Eventually, they scaled up their approach and devised a draft proposal for a transboun…
Juridificación multiescalar frente a la industria minera: Experiencias de Centroamérica y México
La multiescalaridad es una característica central de la gobernanza neoliberal de los modelos extractivistas que se construyen entretejiendo múltiples niveles y jurisdicciones del derecho público y privado. En este artículo exponemos las complejas relaciones entre el panorama multiescalar de pluralismo legal global que estructura los conflictos socioambientales sobre la minería, los procesos de juridificación y las variadas formas de violencia que…
Recurrent Plasmodium vivax Cases of Both Short and Long Latency Increased with Transmission Intensity and Were Distributed Year-Round in the Most Affected Municipalities of the RACCN, Nicaragua, 2013–…
The characteristics of P. vivax recurrent episodes were examined using a centralized secondary source of malaria records in Nicaragua and in the two most affected municipalities in the RACCN. The study of 36,787 malaria cases due to P. vivax or P. falciparum revealed that, nationwide, 3624 patients had at least one recurrent infection. This was achieved by matching names, gender, age, community/municipality, ethnicity, etc. P. vivax was responsib…
Presentación del dossier. Extractivismo minero en América Latina: La juridificación de los conflictos socioambientales
Presentación del dossier. Extractivismo minero en América Latina: la juridificación de los conflictos socioambientales
Post-extractive juridification: Undoing the legal foundations of mining in El Salvador
In 2017 El Salvador passed the world’s first and only blanket ban on metal mining. This article explores this unique exception to the neoextractive path followed by much of Latin America since the early 2000s—an exception brought about by citizen-led lawmaking processes. Drawing from fieldwork research in El Salvador, I suggest that the ban was enabled not so much by a negative assessment of extraction-led development as by multiple other factors…
Troubling environmental governance: Citizen legal experiments with transboundary commons
Environmental phenomena shed light on the fiction that inter-state borders constitute on some level, and the limitations of state-based environmental governance. Transboundary watersheds, in particular, flow across borders of different kinds, evincing the interdependence of water bodies, both human and nonhuman. The lack of cross-border comprehensive environmental governance imposes regional forms of inequity and inefficient forms of water protec…
Citizens as lawmakers: Legal innovation and the competing moralities of environmental juridification
Law has increasingly become a relevant political language and a field of political contestation for citizens. In the context of socioenvironmental disputes, citizens have appealed to the courts or become involved in lawmaking as means of asserting their rights and worldviews. Such citizen engagements with law, I argue, amount to a form of worldmaking, as they allow for the introduction of situated moral values that challenge existing notions, roo…
Mapping Out Juridified Conflicts over Mining: The Legal Cultures of the Subsoil Database
Indigenous peoples, rural and peasant populations, and Afro-descendants have increasingly disputed mining and other extractive ventures in the territories they inhabit in various regions of Latin America. This article introduces an open-access digital and bilingual curated repository of data that compiles legal and legal-like actions by various actors in the context of paradigmatic conflicts over mining in Central America and Mexico. It situates …
Las culturas legales del subsuelo. Investigación, docencia y divulgación sobre extractivismo minero y sus vulneraciones de derechos
Este artículo presenta la base de datos “Las culturas legales del subsuelo”, un recurso para la investigación y la docencia sobre las acciones jurídico-políticas relacionadas con conflictos mineros juridificados en Centroamérica y México y examina su valor en la coyuntura actual. Alojada por la Escuela de Estudios Avanzados de la Universidad de Londres y desarrollada en dos etapas correspondientes a sendos proyectos de investigación relacionados,…
Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Mining and Resource Management (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (3 works)