Lara Montesinos Coleman

Professor Lara Montesinos Coleman

Early Career Fellow 2014-15

Discipline, Dissent and Dispossession

This project seeks to establish a deeper understanding of what is at stake in the interplay between anti-systemic struggles and the more widely-dispersed modes of political control that may be directed toward and through practices of dissent. In particular, it will explore how specifically neoliberal strategies of control inscribe certain types of dissenting subjects and practices, closing political space and cementing dispossession in the name of economic necessity.

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Areas of interest

International Law Ethics Political Economy Human Rights Colombia South America Indigenous People Political Philosophy Critical Theory

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Biography

Lara Montesinos Professor of International Law, Ethics and Political Economy at the University of Sussex. She read Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford, and holds master’s degrees in International Relations and Research Methods from the University of Bristol. Lara completed her PhD (2011) and taught in the Politics Department at Bristol after a few years working on human rights in Colombia, working with a network of peasant, trade union and indigenous organisations with whom she maintains strong links. Her first permanent academic appointment was at Durham University, but she moved to Sussex when the opportunity to join the Department of International Relations arose in 2012.

Biographical details correct as of 06.02.25