Sandra W Rodríguez Castañeda
@lasandunga.bsky.social
PhD student at UCL doing research at the intersection of reproduction and environment | Prev Geography at University of Cambridge | Antropóloga peruana.
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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.
“The contrast between political instability and macroeconomic stability is known as the Peruvian ‘paradox.’ But Peru’s democratic decline is intimately related to its economic status quo.”
NEW: @stephangruber.bsky.social on Fujimori’s position in Peru’s political economy
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NEW: @stephangruber.bsky.social on Fujimori’s position in Peru’s political economy
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Phenomenal World (@phenomenalworld) on X
“The contrast between political instability and macroeconomic stability is known as the Peruvian ‘paradox.’ But Peru’s democratic decline is intimately related to its economic status quo.”
@StephanGr...
x.com
August 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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.
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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/
August 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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/
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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...
It's an incredibly lucid and specific description of the terraforming/deforming of Palestine, which he terms Ungrounding.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3T4...
Makdisi Street Reviews w/ Eyal Weizman
YouTube video by Makdisi Street
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June 20, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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...
It's an incredibly lucid and specific description of the terraforming/deforming of Palestine, which he terms Ungrounding.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3T4...
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“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...
www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...
Demographic Anxieties by Gala Rexer - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
June 17, 2026 at 11:37 AM
“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...
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
"Why has the US right since the 1970s been more effective than the left at grassroots community organizing? Part of the answer is that our side has no events with bouncy castles."
read theory damn it
www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...
read theory damn it
www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...
Why is the Left No Fun?
Bouncy Castle Communism is the Solution
www.laborpolitics.com
May 27, 2026 at 1:28 PM
made me think on the vacation trips organised by the miners labour unions depicted in the amazing film Viejo Calavera by Kiro Russo
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Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
April 10, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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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-...
May 25, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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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How your email finds me
April 26, 2026 at 8:25 AM
How your email finds me
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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.
The human cost of unsafe abortions
Romania’s history offers a rare natural experiment on what happens when abortion laws change rapidly. What can the rest of the world learn from this?
ourworldindata.org
March 24, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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.
Next Tuesday 4:30pm (26 May), Lina-María Murillo (UT Austin) discusses her book Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands –uncovering how Mexican-origin women fought to reclaim autonomy across the border.
Hybrid event at UCL. Register: sl1nk.com/8l0g54c
Hybrid event at UCL. Register: sl1nk.com/8l0g54c
May 20, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Next Tuesday 4:30pm (26 May), Lina-María Murillo (UT Austin) discusses her book Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands –uncovering how Mexican-origin women fought to reclaim autonomy across the border.
Hybrid event at UCL. Register: sl1nk.com/8l0g54c
Hybrid event at UCL. Register: sl1nk.com/8l0g54c
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🥳 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
🔗https://tinyurl.com/2db623jb
May 8, 2026 at 4:58 PM
🥳 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
🔗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!
Very happy that our article on reproductive justice in Latin America with Julieta Chaparro Buitrago, María Ximena Dávila and @lasandunga.bsky.social has been published in Latin America Research Review @lasabluesky.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Justicia reproductiva: Teoría y práctica en América Latina | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Justicia reproductiva: Teoría y práctica en América Latina
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May 7, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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!
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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...
April 22, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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
April 20, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Roy on the familiarity of the return of fascism, written in 1998
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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!
In 2024, the Dig launched Thawra, a 19-part series on 20th century Arab radicalism.
We are now releasing the Thawra digital study guide, replete with readings, films, archival materials, & discussion Qs for collective or individual study.
Check it out➡️ thawraproject.com
We are now releasing the Thawra digital study guide, replete with readings, films, archival materials, & discussion Qs for collective or individual study.
Check it out➡️ thawraproject.com
April 14, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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
April 14, 2026 at 4:46 PM
the legacy of the Latin American liberation theology hits hard
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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...
Economic Warfare w/ Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Nicholas Mulder
Featuring Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, and Nicholas Mulder on the economic warfare unfolding with the US-Israeli war on Iran—and beyond.
www.thedigradio.com
March 27, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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...
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Yesterday I taught a class that included a reading on concentration camps & other forms of Nazi horror. We quickly got to present-day US.
Some were super well informed about ICE. Others, at least 1 of whom was learning about Nazi Germany for the first time*, just sat there with open jaws.
Some were super well informed about ICE. Others, at least 1 of whom was learning about Nazi Germany for the first time*, just sat there with open jaws.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports
Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.
www.motherjones.com
March 8, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Yesterday I taught a class that included a reading on concentration camps & other forms of Nazi horror. We quickly got to present-day US.
Some were super well informed about ICE. Others, at least 1 of whom was learning about Nazi Germany for the first time*, just sat there with open jaws.
Some were super well informed about ICE. Others, at least 1 of whom was learning about Nazi Germany for the first time*, just sat there with open jaws.
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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/
February 24, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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/
Happy to see my piece published in Archive Stories. I talk about how documents and archival practices mediated the formation of political power for the rondas campesinas, a grassroots peasant organisation in the Peruvian Andes archive-stories.com/To-raise-one...
To raise one’s head high — archive stories
Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda To raise one’s head high: Living archives and subaltern bureaucracies of the Rondas Campesinas from Chota,...
archive-stories.com
February 25, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Happy to see my piece published in Archive Stories. I talk about how documents and archival practices mediated the formation of political power for the rondas campesinas, a grassroots peasant organisation in the Peruvian Andes archive-stories.com/To-raise-one...
Send your abstracts by Friday 6th March!
📣Call for Abstracts: Sex, Reproduction, and the Politics of Knowledge Workshop
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February 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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
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
February 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
📢 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
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.
PhD Student, Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda, discusses a project of archival recovery in northern Peru
Read the blog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...
#Peru #archives #research #phd #PhDLife #fieldwork
Read the blog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...
#Peru #archives #research #phd #PhDLife #fieldwork
February 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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.