Lara Montesinos Coleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3688080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lara Montesinos Coleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lara Montesinos |
| FAMILY NAME | Coleman |
| SIGNATURE | COLEMAN L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reparación por el genocidio extractivista in advance: Daños, Responsabilidades E Implicaciones Para Una Transición Justa
En este artículo indagamos por las implicaciones de otorgar peso a las denuncias de genocidio en el contexto de la extracción de combustibles fósiles, y exploramos las implicaciones para los movimientos que promueven una transición energética justa en su forma de abordar la reparación. Al poner en diálogo las narrativas legales dominantes sobre el daño y la responsabilidad con los reclamos epistémicos y políticos de los movimientos que exigen rep…
Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
Marxism, coloniality and ontological assumptions
At the heart of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis is a revolt against fetishism: the appeal to abstract categories, treating concepts as if they referred to things ‘out there’ in the world, independent of social relations). It is commonplace to note that studies of international relations routinely fetishise a system of ‘sovereign’ states, abstracted from history and the social relations, practices and ideologies that sustain state pow…
Fracturer la politique: Ou comment éviter la reproduction tacite des ontologies modernes/coloniales dans la pensée critique
Rights in a State Of Exception. The Deadly Colonial Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights
It is widely accepted that voluntary corporate responsibility for human rights is a means of continuing “business-as-usual”. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been denounced as “whitewash”, with little effect in practice. I claim here that voluntary CSR is far worse than “whitewash”: it actively bolsters corporate impunity by rendering the violence of development illegible and equating resistance with irrationality or subversion. It thriv…
Collective Discussion: Fracturing Politics (Or, How to Avoid the Tacit Reproduction of Modern/Colonial Ontologies in Critical Thought)
This article engages in an experiment that aims to push critical/post-structuralist thought beyond its comfort zone. Despite its commitment to critiquing modern, liberal ontologies, the article claims that these same ontologies are often tacitly reproduced, resulting in a failure to grasp contemporary structures and histories of violence and domination. The article brings into conversation five selected critical scholars from a range of theoretic…
Security (studies) and the limits of critique: Why We Should Think Through Struggle
This paper addresses the political and epistemological stakes of knowledge production in post-structuralist critical security studies (CSS). It opens a research agenda in which struggles against dominant regimes of power/knowledge are entry-points for analysis. Despite attempts to gain distance from the word ‘security’, through interrogation of wider practices and schemes of knowledge in which security practices are embedded, post-structuralist C…
Struggles, over rights: Humanism, ethical dispossession and resistance
What should we make of appeals to human rights in the context of struggles against dispossession or armed repression? After the ‘death of man’ as transcendent ground of all right, critics have highlighted the disciplinary effects and absolutist tendencies of human rights discourse. However, attempts have been made to ‘rescue’ human rights – and wider forms of humanistic advocacy – as an immanent, self-grounding ethical practice. Drawing on analys…
Ethnography, Commitment, and Critique: Departing from Activist Scholarship
This article addresses the vexed question of relations between critique and political struggle. As emphasis upon the "impact" of research increases, possibilities of integrating research into practices of resistance have been highlighted. Such approaches lend themselves to ethnographic methods, with scholars engaged in these ways offering nuanced reflections on possibilities of "bridging gaps" between research and solidarity. Here, however, I dra…
Situating Global Resistance: Between Discipline and Dissent
Situating Global Resistance: Between Discipline and Dissent
Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the activities and significance of the diverse assemblages that oppose and/or promote alternatives to neoliberal globalisation. Much of the scholarly literature is celebratory in tone, and offers little analysis of how these contemporary forms of social organisation are also invested or colonised by power relations, or constrained by dominant ways of thinking about politics and global order. Critic…
The Making of Docile Dissent: Neoliberalization and Resistance in Colombia and Beyond
This study is about strategies of neoliberalization in relation to practices of dissent and resistance. It explores how struggles arising in the context of neoliberalization may be subject to entanglement within the very processes they seek to contest and—in so doing—interrogates the political stakes of neoliberal governmental rationality. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic research, I trace the international trajectory of mobilizations against …
Between Discipline and Dissent: Situated Resistance and Global Order
In this article we contextualise the Disciplining Dissent project through a series of observations about the ways in which the papers collected here contribute to existing perspectives on global resistance, and make a broader argument in favour of situated approaches to studying the interplay between global discipline and dissent. After outlining the concerns that led us initially to formulate the project, we offer a series of reflections about t…
Security (studies) and the limits of critique: Why We Should Think Through Struggle
This paper addresses the political and epistemological stakes of knowledge production in post-structuralist critical security studies (CSS). It opens a research agenda in which struggles against dominant regimes of power/knowledge are entry-points for analysis. Despite attempts to gain distance from the word ‘security’, through interrogation of wider practices and schemes of knowledge in which security practices are embedded, post-structuralist C…
Ethnography, Commitment, and Critique: Departing from Activist Scholarship
This article addresses the vexed question of relations between critique and political struggle. As emphasis upon the "impact" of research increases, possibilities of integrating research into practices of resistance have been highlighted. Such approaches lend themselves to ethnographic methods, with scholars engaged in these ways offering nuanced reflections on possibilities of "bridging gaps" between research and solidarity. Here, however, I dra…
The Making of Docile Dissent: Neoliberalization and Resistance in Colombia and Beyond
This study is about strategies of neoliberalization in relation to practices of dissent and resistance. It explores how struggles arising in the context of neoliberalization may be subject to entanglement within the very processes they seek to contest and—in so doing—interrogates the political stakes of neoliberal governmental rationality. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic research, I trace the international trajectory of mobilizations against …
Between Discipline and Dissent: Situated Resistance and Global Order
In this article we contextualise the Disciplining Dissent project through a series of observations about the ways in which the papers collected here contribute to existing perspectives on global resistance, and make a broader argument in favour of situated approaches to studying the interplay between global discipline and dissent. After outlining the concerns that led us initially to formulate the project, we offer a series of reflections about t…
Struggles, over rights: Humanism, ethical dispossession and resistance
What should we make of appeals to human rights in the context of struggles against dispossession or armed repression? After the ‘death of man’ as transcendent ground of all right, critics have highlighted the disciplinary effects and absolutist tendencies of human rights discourse. However, attempts have been made to ‘rescue’ human rights – and wider forms of humanistic advocacy – as an immanent, self-grounding ethical practice. Drawing on analys…
Marxism, coloniality and ontological assumptions
At the heart of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis is a revolt against fetishism: the appeal to abstract categories, treating concepts as if they referred to things ‘out there’ in the world, independent of social relations). It is commonplace to note that studies of international relations routinely fetishise a system of ‘sovereign’ states, abstracted from history and the social relations, practices and ideologies that sustain state pow…
Between Discipline and Dissent: Situated Resistance and Global Order
In this article we contextualise the Disciplining Dissent project through a series of observations about the ways in which the papers collected here contribute to existing perspectives on global resistance, and make a broader argument in favour of situated approaches to studying the interplay between global discipline and dissent. After outlining the concerns that led us initially to formulate the project, we offer a series of reflections about t…
Situating Global Resistance: Between Discipline and Dissent
Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the activities and significance of the diverse assemblages that oppose and/or promote alternatives to neoliberal globalisation. Much of the scholarly literature is celebratory in tone, and offers little analysis of how these contemporary forms of social organisation are also invested or colonised by power relations, or constrained by dominant ways of thinking about politics and global order. Critic…
The Making of Docile Dissent: Neoliberalization and Resistance in Colombia and Beyond
This study is about strategies of neoliberalization in relation to practices of dissent and resistance. It explores how struggles arising in the context of neoliberalization may be subject to entanglement within the very processes they seek to contest and—in so doing—interrogates the political stakes of neoliberal governmental rationality. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic research, I trace the international trajectory of mobilizations against …
Situating Global Resistance: Between Discipline and Dissent
Struggles, over rights: Humanism, ethical dispossession and resistance
What should we make of appeals to human rights in the context of struggles against dispossession or armed repression? After the ‘death of man’ as transcendent ground of all right, critics have highlighted the disciplinary effects and absolutist tendencies of human rights discourse. However, attempts have been made to ‘rescue’ human rights – and wider forms of humanistic advocacy – as an immanent, self-grounding ethical practice. Drawing on analys…
Ethnography, Commitment, and Critique: Departing from Activist Scholarship
This article addresses the vexed question of relations between critique and political struggle. As emphasis upon the "impact" of research increases, possibilities of integrating research into practices of resistance have been highlighted. Such approaches lend themselves to ethnographic methods, with scholars engaged in these ways offering nuanced reflections on possibilities of "bridging gaps" between research and solidarity. Here, however, I dra…
Security (studies) and the limits of critique: Why We Should Think Through Struggle
This paper addresses the political and epistemological stakes of knowledge production in post-structuralist critical security studies (CSS). It opens a research agenda in which struggles against dominant regimes of power/knowledge are entry-points for analysis. Despite attempts to gain distance from the word ‘security’, through interrogation of wider practices and schemes of knowledge in which security practices are embedded, post-structuralist C…
Collective Discussion: Fracturing Politics (Or, How to Avoid the Tacit Reproduction of Modern/Colonial Ontologies in Critical Thought)
This article engages in an experiment that aims to push critical/post-structuralist thought beyond its comfort zone. Despite its commitment to critiquing modern, liberal ontologies, the article claims that these same ontologies are often tacitly reproduced, resulting in a failure to grasp contemporary structures and histories of violence and domination. The article brings into conversation five selected critical scholars from a range of theoretic…
Rights in a State Of Exception. The Deadly Colonial Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights
It is widely accepted that voluntary corporate responsibility for human rights is a means of continuing “business-as-usual”. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been denounced as “whitewash”, with little effect in practice. I claim here that voluntary CSR is far worse than “whitewash”: it actively bolsters corporate impunity by rendering the violence of development illegible and equating resistance with irrationality or subversion. It thriv…
Fracturer la politique: Ou comment éviter la reproduction tacite des ontologies modernes/coloniales dans la pensée critique
Marxism, coloniality and ontological assumptions
At the heart of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis is a revolt against fetishism: the appeal to abstract categories, treating concepts as if they referred to things ‘out there’ in the world, independent of social relations). It is commonplace to note that studies of international relations routinely fetishise a system of ‘sovereign’ states, abstracted from history and the social relations, practices and ideologies that sustain state pow…
Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
Reparación por el genocidio extractivista in advance: Daños, Responsabilidades E Implicaciones Para Una Transición Justa
En este artículo indagamos por las implicaciones de otorgar peso a las denuncias de genocidio en el contexto de la extracción de combustibles fósiles, y exploramos las implicaciones para los movimientos que promueven una transición energética justa en su forma de abordar la reparación. Al poner en diálogo las narrativas legales dominantes sobre el daño y la responsabilidad con los reclamos epistémicos y políticos de los movimientos que exigen rep…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Human Rights and Development (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)