Angélica María Bernal
Biographic Data
| ID | 354233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angélica María Bernal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angélica María |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernal |
| SIGNATURE | BERNAL A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Presidents and the People: A View from Latin America
Earth-Making Resistance in a World on Fire
I begin where Temin’s book does, with the #NODAPL movement. The movement emerged in 2016 as Standing Rock Sioux citizens organized to stop the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) across their ancestral lands. As Sioux scholar-activist Nick Estes argues, the #NODAPL movement is part of a longer history of Indigenous resistance to settler colonialism in the US. 1 It is also part of a history of 500 years of Indigenous resistance in the Am…
Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto
Antiracist, anticapitalist feminist protests are at the forefront of contemporary mass protest in the Americas and beyond. As an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, international collective of feminist activist-intellectuals, we have been engaging with and analyzing contemporary protest since the global uprisings of the 2010s. Few things are bigger in feminism today than mass protest, yet there has been scant theorizing about it. Our manifesto …
Creolizing Foundings: World-Making Beyond Pure Origins
This article engages with a creolized approach to the problem and paradoxes of founding. At the heart of the paradox is the issue of political legitimacy: where do a people get the legitimacy to found or refound a new political order? I argue that Gordon’s creolized reading of Rousseau’s problem of the general will—via Fanon—offers us a novel approach to this question: one that neither resorts to an outside lawgiver or projects the solution for a…
Ecuador's dual populisms: Neocolonial extractivism, violence and indigenous resistance
This article examines the confluence of extractivism, violence, and their resistance in the context of left governance - specifically the case of Ecuador - through an engagement with the concept of populism. Alongside Bolivia and Venezuela, Ecuador has long been associated with the rise of radical populism and with it an 'autocratic turn' in Latin America. Dispensing with overdetermined accounts of populism as either the anti-thesis or essence of…
Beyond Origins
From classical stories of divine lawgivers to contemporary ones of Founding Fathers and constitutional beginnings, foundings have long been synonymous with singular, extraordinary moments of political origin and creation. In constitutional democracies, this common view is particularly attractive, with original founding events, actors, and ideals invoked time and again in everyday politics as well as in times of crisis to remake the state and unif…
Foundings, Origins, and Repetition: Rethinking Founding in a Time of Constitutional Democracy
This chapter turns to the Roman historian Titus Livy’s theory of founding to tackle the problem of original authority. The central argument advanced by this chapter is that Livy’s conception offers us helpful resources for rethinking foundings and foundation building beyond origins and authoritative beginnings. Against political foundationalism, Livy’s conception of founding recasts the relationship between foundations and foundational change by …
On the Agency of the Non-Human World: A View from Latin America
The Meaning and Perils of Presidential Refounding in Latin America
Power, Powerlessness and Petroleum: Indigenous Environmental Claims and the Limits of Transnational Law
Environmental disasters, particularly oil spills, increasingly involve a complex intermingling of the national, international and often the transnational. Traditional responses to seeking remediation have pursued the legal path of class action suits against multinational corporations. This article examines one such historic case, Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc., in which residents of Ecuador’s Amazonian rainforest brought suit against Texaco in US federa…
Power, Powerlessness and Petroleum: Indigenous Environmental Claims and the Limits of Transnational Law
Environmental disasters, particularly oil spills, increasingly involve a complex intermingling of the national, international and often the transnational. Traditional responses to seeking remediation have pursued the legal path of class action suits against multinational corporations. This article examines one such historic case, Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc., in which residents of Ecuador’s Amazonian rainforest brought suit against Texaco in US federa…
The Meaning and Perils of Presidential Refounding in Latin America
Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto
Antiracist, anticapitalist feminist protests are at the forefront of contemporary mass protest in the Americas and beyond. As an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, international collective of feminist activist-intellectuals, we have been engaging with and analyzing contemporary protest since the global uprisings of the 2010s. Few things are bigger in feminism today than mass protest, yet there has been scant theorizing about it. Our manifesto …
Ecuador's dual populisms: Neocolonial extractivism, violence and indigenous resistance
This article examines the confluence of extractivism, violence, and their resistance in the context of left governance - specifically the case of Ecuador - through an engagement with the concept of populism. Alongside Bolivia and Venezuela, Ecuador has long been associated with the rise of radical populism and with it an 'autocratic turn' in Latin America. Dispensing with overdetermined accounts of populism as either the anti-thesis or essence of…
Power, Powerlessness and Petroleum: Indigenous Environmental Claims and the Limits of Transnational Law
Environmental disasters, particularly oil spills, increasingly involve a complex intermingling of the national, international and often the transnational. Traditional responses to seeking remediation have pursued the legal path of class action suits against multinational corporations. This article examines one such historic case, Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc., in which residents of Ecuador’s Amazonian rainforest brought suit against Texaco in US federa…
On the Agency of the Non-Human World: A View from Latin America
The Meaning and Perils of Presidential Refounding in Latin America
Beyond Origins
From classical stories of divine lawgivers to contemporary ones of Founding Fathers and constitutional beginnings, foundings have long been synonymous with singular, extraordinary moments of political origin and creation. In constitutional democracies, this common view is particularly attractive, with original founding events, actors, and ideals invoked time and again in everyday politics as well as in times of crisis to remake the state and unif…
Foundings, Origins, and Repetition: Rethinking Founding in a Time of Constitutional Democracy
This chapter turns to the Roman historian Titus Livy’s theory of founding to tackle the problem of original authority. The central argument advanced by this chapter is that Livy’s conception offers us helpful resources for rethinking foundings and foundation building beyond origins and authoritative beginnings. Against political foundationalism, Livy’s conception of founding recasts the relationship between foundations and foundational change by …
Creolizing Foundings: World-Making Beyond Pure Origins
This article engages with a creolized approach to the problem and paradoxes of founding. At the heart of the paradox is the issue of political legitimacy: where do a people get the legitimacy to found or refound a new political order? I argue that Gordon’s creolized reading of Rousseau’s problem of the general will—via Fanon—offers us a novel approach to this question: one that neither resorts to an outside lawgiver or projects the solution for a…
Ecuador's dual populisms: Neocolonial extractivism, violence and indigenous resistance
This article examines the confluence of extractivism, violence, and their resistance in the context of left governance - specifically the case of Ecuador - through an engagement with the concept of populism. Alongside Bolivia and Venezuela, Ecuador has long been associated with the rise of radical populism and with it an 'autocratic turn' in Latin America. Dispensing with overdetermined accounts of populism as either the anti-thesis or essence of…
Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto
Antiracist, anticapitalist feminist protests are at the forefront of contemporary mass protest in the Americas and beyond. As an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, international collective of feminist activist-intellectuals, we have been engaging with and analyzing contemporary protest since the global uprisings of the 2010s. Few things are bigger in feminism today than mass protest, yet there has been scant theorizing about it. Our manifesto …
Presidents and the People: A View from Latin America
Earth-Making Resistance in a World on Fire
I begin where Temin’s book does, with the #NODAPL movement. The movement emerged in 2016 as Standing Rock Sioux citizens organized to stop the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) across their ancestral lands. As Sioux scholar-activist Nick Estes argues, the #NODAPL movement is part of a longer history of Indigenous resistance to settler colonialism in the US. 1 It is also part of a history of 500 years of Indigenous resistance in the Am…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Latin Americans (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Economics (2 works)