Silvia Rodríguez Maeso


Biography

PhD in Political Sociology (University of the Basque Country). Silvia is Principal Researcher at CES, where she integrates the Research Group "Democracy, Justice and Human Rights". She co-coordinates the PhD Programme: "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies" (CES/IIIUC)and lectures in the Programme "Sociology of the State, Law and Justice" (CES/FEUC, starting in 2021-2022). She coordinated the research project POLITICS - "The politics of anti-racism in Europe and Latin America: knowledge production, decision-making and collective struggles" (ERC- Consolidator Grant, 2017-2023). Silvia has developed her research and teaching activities in postgraduate courses in the areas of critical race studies, anti-racism and decolonial thinking with a focus on: power and knowledge production; integration and inclusion public policies, and antidiscrimination socio-legal discourse.


Latest Publications

Article in Scientific journal

Maeso, Silvia Rodríguez (2025), "White Control of Black Geographies and Resistance to Urban Policing: Dismantling Hegemonic Knowledge Production on Race, Crime, and Youth in Portugal", Antipode. A Radical Journal of Geography, 1-23

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Book Chapter

Rodríguez Maeso, Silvia; de Araújo, Danielle Pereira; Fernández, Cayetano (2025), Vampirizing Anti-Racism: Reflections from the Black and Roma Struggles in Spain and Portugal, in Ilke Adam, Jean Beaman, Mariska Jung (org.), A New Wave of Anti-Racism in Europe?. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer Nature Switzerland, 167-188

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Book

Fernández, Cayetano; Araújo, Danielle; Fejzula, Sebijan; Maeso, Silvia Rodríguez (orgs.) (2023), Racismo de Estado. Una mirada colectiva desde la autonomía y la justicia racial. Tafalla: Txalaparta

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