CV Dr. Ana María Miranda Mora
RESEARCH AREAS:
Political and Legal Philosophy, Classic German Philosophy, Gender Studies & Feminist Theory
Continental Philosophy, esp. Classic German Philosophy, Critical Theory and Poststructuralism; Hegel; Marx, Engels, Benjamin, Foucault
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Gendering Democracy
Feminist philosophy of law (rights discourse, anti-punitive feminism)
Affective Feminist Theory of rage
Recent feminist mobilizations in Latin America against violence, care, and ecological crises
Hegel’s theory of love and the family
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2022 DAAD postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Research Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (04.2022-12.2022).
2022 Lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany (04.2022-08.2022).
2021-22 Co-coordinator of Diploma Degree in Postgraduate Program in Gender Studies National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico (10.2021 – 07.2022).
2020-2023 Lecturer at the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (04.2020-03.2023)
2020-21 Research assistant at the Institute for Political Science, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany (07.2020 – 03.2023).
2019 Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico (02.-07.).
2014-17 Research assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico (01.2014–08.2017).
2017 Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, Mexico (01.-05.)
2013 Student assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City (08.2013 – 01.2014).
2011 Student assistant at the National System of Researchers Mexico (SNI), Mexico City, Mexico (01.-07.).
EDUCATION
2021 Doctorate in Political Philosophy (comparable to a PhD.), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City. Graduated with honors, highest possible grade, topic: Hegel’s Critical Theory of Law. On the Relation between Law and Violence
2014 Master in Philosophy (comparable to an M.A.), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City. Graduated with honors, highest possible grade, topic: Hegel and Skeptic Tradition (Antiquity and Modernity)
2011 Degree in Philosophy (comparable to a B.A.), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City. Graduated with honors, highest possible grade, topic: Hegel and Skepticism (Modernity)
TALKS (selected)
2023 "Rage, violence and the common" in VI Truth Justice Freedom. Perpectivas plurales de la Filosofía, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (23.-27. 01).
2022 “Feminist struggles against gender-based violence. Femicide in Germany and Mexico” (En), In Violence against Women: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Humboldt Foundation and the German Historical, Institute London, London, UK (14-16.07.)
2022 “Towards a Feminist Politics of Rights: Mexico and Germany” (En), In Past and Future Genders: Latin America and Beyond, American Academy in Berlin, Berlin, Germany (27.06 – 01.07.)
2022 “Life and Love: living love” (En), In Life and Logic in Hegel, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany (23.-24.06)
2022 “Interventions from the Global South: Feminist Strategies for Engaging with the Law” (En), In Tagung Rechtsstaat und Demokratie unter Druck – Perspektiven in der sozialen und ökologischen Krise. Institut für Rechtsphilosophie der Universität Wien, Viena, Austria (24.-26.03.)
2022 “Love and Law: The Paradox of Marriage” (En), In The Crisis of Freedom. Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right After 200 Years, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (13-15.01.)
2021 “Love and Coercion in Hegel´s Philosophy of Right” (Sp), In Workshop: Lessons about Hegel. Outlines of the philosophy of right. Universidad de Medellín, Colombia (online) (03. – 05.11.)
2021 “Hegel’s justification of disciplinary coercion in the family” (En), In IAPh 2021 “Defining the Future - Rethinking the Past”. Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists University of Paderborn, Germany (online) (18. – 21.07.)
2021 “The power of the law: Benjamin’s critique of violence and the feminist struggle for rights” (En,) In Workshop: “Working with Benjamin on Law”, Walter-Benjamin-Archiv, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), International Walter Benjamin Society, Berlin, Germany (15. – 17.07.)
2021 “The role of coercion in Hegel’s theory of punishment”, In 33rd Hegel Congress 2020/21, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (21. – 25.06.)
2020 “The Critique of Law in Hegel’s and Benjamin’s Philosophy: Power, Violence, and Rationality” (En), In The Survival of Idealism in Critical Theory XVIII, Conference of the International Research Network Transcendental Philosophy/German Idealism, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany (20. – 21.02.)
2020 “The concept of power in Engels Theory of the State” (En), In Friedrich Engels: The Actuality of a Classic", Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany (19. – 21.02.)
2019 “Female labor and its central debates” (Sp)International Congress Feminism and Marxism Today: Labor in Neoliberalism”, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature/CIEG, UNAM, Mexico City (11. – 12.02).
2018 “Feminine/feminized Bodies as territories of conquest. A feminist genealogy of the geography of violence” (En), In Marxist-Feminist Conference, Lund University, Sweden (05. – 08.10.).
2018 Hegel & Marx a dialogue. Positivity & Mystification (En) In 32nd International Hegel Congress, Tampere, Finland (05. – 8.05.).
2018 Philosophy of violence, a critical approach (Sp) In DAAD Summer School 2018: "Literature and Violence in Mexico and Central America", Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Spain Center (SpaZ)/Centro Interuniversitario de Estudios Culturales Hispánicos (CeHis), HHU Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Germany (07. – 17.05.)
2017 “From the Critique of Violence to Revolutionary Violence in Towards a Critique of Violence” (Sp). In IV International Congress of Critical Theory, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain (18. – 20.10.).
PUBLICATIONS
Book:
2023 Violence and Normativity. Hegel’s Critical Theory of Law (Sp). Mexico City: UNAM (forthcoming).
Edited Volumes:
2023 Feminism and Neoliberalism: Labor, Subjectivities, Resistances (Sp), Mexico City: UNAM, Institute of Gender Studies (CIEG-UNAM), (together with Amneris Chaparro) (In print, forthcoming).
Special issue:
2024 „Philosophie der Gewalt. Lateinamerikanische Perspektiven“ (De), in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, with Marina Martinez Mateos (forthcoming)
2023 “Sex-gender dissidents and LGBTQ+ communities/subjectivities” (Sp), in Wefts and Networks. CLACSO Journal, with Amneris Chaparro. (forthcoming)
2023 “Hegel in and from Latin America and the Caribbean” (Sp), Antítesis - Iberoamerican Journal of Hegelian Studies. (forthcoming)
Refereed Journal Articles
2022 “The Normative Dilemmas of the Feminist Struggles Against (Trans-) Feminicide in Mexico” (En), in Femina Politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, Winter 2/2022.
2021 “Antecedents of the Theory of Crime and Punishment in the Elements of the Philosophy of Right” (Sp), in Resistances. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 2(4), 2021, e21068.
2019 “Anti-Capitalist Feminism or Feminist Marxism. History of a contemporary debate” (Sp), in Theoria. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía, Vol. 34, 2019, 65- 90.
Non-Refereed Journal Articles
2023 “The role of Coercion in Hegel’s Theory of Crime and Punishment (En), in Hegel-Jahrbuch 2021/22, Berlín: Duncker & Humboldt (Accepted, forthcoming).
2015 “Feminicide in Mexico and Symbolic Domination in the Construction of Mexican Women’s Subjectivity” (Sp), in Memoirs of the XXII International Colloquium on Gender Studies. Neoliberal Challenges, Feminist Responses. Mexico City: CIEG - UNAM Press.
2014 “Ancient Skepticism in the Phenomenology of Spirit” (Sp), in The Contributions of the Intellectual Journey from Kant to Hegel. Lectures I Germano-Latin American Congress on Philosophy of Hegel, Porto Alegre: Editor F.I.
Book Chapters
2023 “Gendered capitalism. Sanctuary Zones and Care in the Face of the Ecosocial Crisis” (Sp), with Amneris Chaparro, in Care and Resilience in and beyond the Anthropocene: Latin American Approaches, Bielefeld University/CLACSO (accepted, forthcoming).
2023 “Outlines for an affective theory of rage. Feminism, Violence, and Power” (Sp), in The emergence of the Commons: post marxism and new feminisms. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica FCE (forthcoming).
2022 “Migration and Inequalities in Domestic Labor and Global Care Chains. Solidarity in the Face of Crisis” (Sp), in Feminism and Neoliberalism: Labor, Subjectivities, Resistances Mexico City: CIEG-UNAM University Press (In press, forthcoming).
2022 “The Power of Law: Benjamin’s Critique of Violence” (Sp), in Walter Benjamin: On the Critique of Violence (Sp). Mexico City: UAM Press (In press, forthcoming).
2022 “The Concept of Power in Engels’s Theory of the State” (En), in Friedrich Engels. The Actuality of a Classic. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2022 “Der Begriff der Macht in Engels' Theorie des Staates” (Ge), in Friedrich Engels. Die Aktualität eines Klassikers. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
2022 “Sexual and femicidal violence: a categorization proposal between political philosophy and feminist geography” (Sp), with Giulia Marchese, in Expendable bodies. Notes on a Critique of Femicide Reasoning in Latin America. Córdoba: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
2019 “On Power and Legitimacy: Two Debates on the Critique of Violence” (Sp), in Violence as an Interpretative Framework for Literary Research. A pluridisciplinary look at contemporary Latin American narrative. Tübingen: Frankfurter Studien zur Iberomania und Frankophonie, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 31-46.
2017 “Positivity of Law, Violence of Legality. On Law and Violence in Hegel's Frankfurt Writings” (Sp), in Hegel: System, Foundation, and Politics. Mexico City: Fides Ediciones, 293-306.
Handbook Entries
2023 “Radical Feminism” (Sp) in Key concepts in Gender studies. Vol. III, Mexico: CIEG-UNAM (accepted, forthcoming).
Book Reviews
2022 “Feminist Irruptions in Marxism. On the publication in Spanish of the Historical-critical dictionary of Marxism-feminism” (Sp/En), in HKWM International.
2022 Angelo Narváez León, "Hegel und die Weltwirtschaft. Kritik und Genese der politischen Ökonomie des Kolonialismus", (Ge) in Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 338 (Heft 3/2022).
2017 Ana de Miguel, “Sexual Neoliberalism. The Myth of Free Choice” (Sp), in Dianoia, Vol. LXII, 78, 2017, 187-194.