Sandra W Rodríguez Castañeda

Back in March 2023, I had written a long thread for (awful) twitter on the question of police violence and mainstream liberal support for it. 1/

I wrote this for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on the politics of Peru's growth model in the wake of Fujimori's election. The "Peruvian Model" is praised for resilient macro stability amid political turmoil — but I focus on its downsides: how it blocks structural change and hollows out democracy.

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

Highly recommend listening/watching to this extraordinary episode of Makdiski Street with Eyal Weizman, founder of Forensic Architecture. It's an incredibly lucid and specific description of the terraforming/deforming of Palestine, which he terms Ungrounding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3T4...

“Demographic Anxieties” can now be preordered (pub date June 30)! It shows how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s reproductive freedom, but it is also an ethnography working through what it means to research Palestine as 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

made me think on the vacation trips organised by the miners labour unions depicted in the amazing film Viejo Calavera by Kiro Russo

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

There's a lot (and I mean A LOT) to like in 'Magnifica Humanitas', the encyclical about technology and AI published today, but here's my favorite sentence: "Every design choice reflects a vision of humanity" www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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From 1965 to 1985, maternal mortality fell sharply across Europe. Romania was the exception, its rates increased by almost 150%. This was due to the President's political decision to ban abortion. When he was overthrown and executed in 1989, the abortion law was liberalized immediately.

🥳 Congratulations to Sandra Wiñay Rodríguez Castañeda (PhD student, UCL Institute of the Americas) on being published in the Latin American Research Review! 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2db623jb

En este artículo hacemos una revisión sistemática de la justicia reproductiva como herramienta epistémica para abordar la relación entre reproducción y justicia social en América Latina, buscando las convergencias entre este marco y los feminismos latinoamericanos. Open access!

1.NEW ARTICLE. Fresh out of the oven, I want to share my article on “neoliberal populism” just out in out in Global Perspectives. I analyze the ideational origins of Peru's resilient neoliberalism in the 1980s. Here a free access to the article (for a month). online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/d...

Roy on the familiarity of the return of fascism, written in 1998

Such an extraordinary resource and the political education on Arab radicalism, the long reach of western imperialism and the centrality of Palestine that we all need in this conjuncture. The podcast was already monumental - thank you @thedigradio.bsky.social, Abdel Razzaq Takriti & all involved!

the legacy of the Latin American liberation theology hits hard

A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

Framing abortion as "healthcare" or "choice" alone isn't enough anymore. We need to be able to articulate why & how, when someone is grappling with CoL, rent, having enough food for their kids [...]- abortion, LGBTQI & migrant rights are not separate from those struggles. 9/

Send your abstracts by Friday 6th March!

📢 Call for abstracts We’re happy to be organising this one-day workshop on sex, reproduction, and the politics of knowledge at @uclamericas.bsky.social on May 26, 2026. We invite 200-word abstract submissions by March 6. 🔗 Full details here: tinyurl.com/366fxscx

In 2024, we were awarded a Modern Endangered Archives Program grant (UCLA) to preserve the archive of the Federación Provincial de Rondas Campesinas de Chota, a historic peasant organisation in Peru. Here, I outline the work we have undertaken so far and explain why preserving this archive matters.

My second article based on my PhD research has just been published in Social Science and Medicine. This article explores how mothers raising children with congenital impairments caused by the Zika virus navigate health systems and negotiate access to care. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share that this graphic piece along with an interview is out in ‘Contours’, the new issue of @otherwisemag.bsky.social Otherwise is an amazing storytelling magazine which can be interest to those keen on the intersections between academia and art

The deadline has now been extended to December 15, 2025. Esperamos sus contribuciones! Información detallada aquí: tinyurl.com/3s8ddkt2

Súper felices de haber obtenido este fondo de LASA junto a @martinayopo.bsky.social , @mariaxdavila.bsky.social y Julieta Chaparro para avanzar la agenda sobre justicia reproductiva en la región y conformar una red de investigadorxs en torno al tema!

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

So shameful and just indicative of their barbaric complicity that some of the most powerful nations in the world didn’t not recognise Palestine as a nation and will only do when Gaza is at the brink of full occupation.

. @npr.org is one of the only US national news organizations that still has a reporter inside Gaza, Anas Baba, and he keeps reporting even though he himself is starving. This piece is unbelievably powerful. www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...

The decimation of life in Gaza is a reproductive genocide. It was a privilege to work with Hala Shoman on our commentary 'No justice in a genocide: sexual and reproductive health and rights in Gaza' in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Difficult to express how I feel about those in our politics and media who are more concerned about what some rapper said at Glastonbury than fact that, as a matter of deliberate policy, the Israeli government is paying mercenaries to murder starving civilians for fun. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israeli officers and soldiers have revealed they’ve been ordered to deliberately shoot at unarmed Palestinians trying to get aid. That’s in Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving. There are few crimes more depraved.

Muy pronto, el 10, 11 y 12 de junio, empieza este Film Series sobre extractivismo en América Latina que venimos organizando junto a Gianfranco Selgas. Gran oportunidad para ver material raramente disponible, seguido de discusiones con académicos, cineastas y activistas. Quedan invitados!

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Soon I’ll be speaking about the intersections of reproduction and extractivism at this panel on colonialism, capitalism & the environment, alongside Maan Barua, Luis Andueza, and Jack Jenkins Hill, with Megan Vaughan as discussant. June 4, 16:00 at UCL!

🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸 Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine. 🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online 🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

Amazing short visual essay by Victor Seow on the sights of extraction, reflecting through postcards featuring images of the working open-pit coal mine in Fushun, once the largest open-pit in Asia. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/climate-loss...

Zines on tour at #AAG2025 zine fair! From myself, @erikahanna.bsky.social, @cordyf.bsky.social, and @lasandunga.bsky.social - with thanks to Maria Fannin for taking them!