Fernanda Vázquez

She studied International Relations at UNAM, FES Acatlán and holds a PhD in Asian and African Studies, specializing in South Asia from the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México. She is currently a full time Professor-Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Cuajimalpa, where she is part of the Academic Body Modernity, Identity and Multiculturalism. She is director of the academic journal Espacialidades of the Department of Social Sciences, UAM-Cuajimalpa. Her lines of research are linked to the Modern and Contemporary History of India, from the approach of the Anthropology of the State, she studies aspects around violence, power relations, subalternity and gender. The research projects she is working on are: "Gender, Religion and Nation-State. Identity reconfigurations from violence in India"; "Sikh women and widows: experiences, voices and agency after violence" and "Commissions of inquiry on cases of violence in India in the post-colonial period". Her most recent work is: "Pain, fear, hatred and revenge: the circulation of emotions in the Sikh state-community conflict in India through discourses and rumors."

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