Profile
Ariadna Estévez holds a Ph.D. in International Relations (University of Sussex, UK). She is a tenured research professor at the Centre for Research on North America (CISAN) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Member of the National Researchers System Level 3. She teaches the Social Laboratory Introduction to Research Strategies Inspired by Foucault: Genealogy, Anatomopolitics, and Biopolitics/Necropolitics at UNAM’s Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS). She is co-coordinator of the research seminars on Human Rights Multidisciplinary Analysis and Critical Legal Studies and Migration at UNAM’s Institute of Legal Research (CISAN-IIJ). Her research interests include: forced migration and asylum in North America; criminal political economy of forced migration; critical studies of law, human rights, and criminal and gender violence; geographies of death and necropolitical spaces; postcolonial studies from biopolitics and necropolitics; necropolitical subjectivities; and digital resistance and justice. She is the author of the books El discurso de derechos humanos en Norteamérica: una gramática en disputa (CISAN-UNAM/UAM Cuajimalpa, 2025), The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration (Lexington Books, 2021), Necropower in North America: The Legal Spatialization Of Disposability And Lucrative Death (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and Guerras necropolíticas y biopolítica de Asilo en América del Norte (CISAN-UNAM/UACM, 2018)
Websites:
https://unam.academia.edu/ARIADNAESTEVEZ
https://ecdm.juridicas.unam.mx/
Twitter:@AresloUNAM
Facebook: Ariadna Estévez
Instagram: @ariadnaestevez
Email: aestevez@unam.mx
Telephone number: (+52 55) 56 23
Position:
Tenured Research Professor
Research Areas
- Forced migration and violence
- Critical studies of violence
- Third world approaches to international law
Recent Publications
2021 The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration (Lexington Books).
2021 Necropower in North America: The Legal Spatialization Of Disposability And Lucrative Death (Palgrave Macmillan).
2018 Guerras necropolíticas y biopolítica de asilo en América del Norte (UNAM-UACM).
