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Key research themes
1. How are natural laws and individual rights conceptualized in early political philosophy regarding individual guarantees?
This research area focuses on foundational ideas of natural law, individual rights, and the justification of individual guarantees as limits on state power. It explores the theoretical basis for individual punishment rights, the relationship between natural law and civil authority, and the invocation of natural rights to challenge sovereign or state claims. This is critical for understanding modern individual guarantees as protections against arbitrary power.
Key finding: The author argues that natural law grants every individual the right to punish transgressors, independent of any state's legislative authority, emphasizing that state laws do not bind foreigners who have not consented to... Read more
2. What are the social and political dimensions of individual and collective rights in modern Latin American socio-political contexts?
This theme investigates the articulation of individual guarantees within a collective and societal framework in Latin America, examining the interaction of individual rights with social justice, governance, inclusion, and political transformation. Research explores how individual guarantees are framed within struggles for equity, social participation, and human rights in contexts marked by historical inequities and political upheavals. This theme links guarantees to practical political and social challenges in contemporary Latin America.
Key finding: The collection underscores that individual guarantees cannot be separated from broader democratic and sovereign frameworks, emphasizing the inseparability of individual rights from collective political participation,... Read more
Key finding: Through an examination of writing and inscription during social revolt and constituent processes, the authors problematize how individual and collective identities are recorded, erased, and contested in nation-building... Read more
Key finding: This homage to a prominent legal scholar stresses the importance of the professionalization of legal academia in Latin America for advancing individual guarantees through rigorous scholarship grounded in Roman and civil law... Read more
3. How do social identity, spatiality, and activism influence the expression and protection of individual guarantees in relation to sexual and gender rights?
This research domain focuses on the interplay between identity politics, embodied expression, and individual rights guarantees within marginalized sexual and gender populations. It examines the role of public demonstrations, communal spaces, and cultural performances in asserting rights and subverting oppression, with attention to how spatial and social contexts affect the visibility and contestation of guarantees. This theme reveals the lived and enacted dimensions of individual guarantees beyond legal frameworks.
Key finding: Through ethnographic analysis of Pride marches and LGTB spaces in Madrid, the study demonstrates how physical spaces and public performances act as sites of visibility and contestation, enabling the articulation of sexual and... Read more
Key finding: This thematic editorial inquiry into youth, gender, and sexuality emphasizes the structuring effect of gender on youth identity formation and rights awareness. It underscores evolving social and cultural practices through... Read more
Key finding: Exploring non-verbal communication as a form of embodied expression, this work elucidates the unconscious bodily messages that individuals convey and interpret, which mediate social interaction and recognition of personal... Read more