María Encarnación López is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences and Professions. She is Deputy Director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre at London Metropolitan and Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Security, Intelligence and Governance (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México). She is editor of the series Violence in the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, published by Tamesis Publishing House (Boydell & Brewer LTD).
María E. López
Professor López holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies from University College London, an MA in Postcolonial Studies from London Metropolitan University, a BA (Hons) in English Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Professor López teaches and supervises in the sociology of gender and sexuality, migration and racism and ethnicity.
Books (authored)
- López, M.E. and Stephen M. Hart (2022) Gender Violence in Twenty-First-Century Latin American Women's Writing. Woodbridge: Tamesis, Boydell & Brewer. In print. ISSN: 2752-308X (print); ISSN: 2752-3098 (online). ISBN 9781855663169.
- López, M.E. (2015) Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary Cuba: Reinaldo Arenas and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Woodbridge: Tamesis, Boydell & Brewer. ISBN: 9781855662889.
Selected articles and book chapters
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López, M. E. (2023) ‘Global relations and workers at the border’. In Brian McDonough and Jane Parry (eds.), Sociology, Work and Organisations: A Global Context. London: Routledge. Forthcoming.
- López, M. E. and L. Ryan (2023) ‘‘What are you doing here?’: Narratives of border crossings among diverse Afghans going to the UK at different times’, Frontiers in Sociology Special Issue “Bodies at Borders: Analyzing the Objectification and Containment of Migrants at Border Crossing.” Vol 8 (February). Open Access.
- López, María E. (2022), 'We are tired of being told it is not a big deal': Institutional Machismo in Mexico', Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (GJIA).
- López, María E. (2022) ‘Governance on violence against women in the necropolitical border: the case of Ciudad Juárez’, in Romero V. and Tello Peón, J. (eds.) Seguridad, Inteligencia y Gobernanza en México: Propuestas a Problemas (Mexico City: Tirant Lo Blanche), pp. 187-201.
- López, M. E. (2022) ‘Review on Ana-Maurine Lara, Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic (Rutgers University Press)’, New West Indian Guide, Brill, 96 (1–2). ISBN: 1382-2373 (print only); ISSN: 2213-4360 (online).
- López, M.E. (2017) ‘Homosexuality and homophobia in Europe’, in Isaacs, S. (ed.) European Social Problems. London: Routledge, pp. 220–236. ISBN: 9781138919938.
- López, M.E. (2016) ‘La revolución cubana en transición: Estados Unidos, democracia, derechos humanos y el Papa Francisco’ (‘The Cuban Revolution: the US, democracy, human rights and Pope Francis’), Otro lunes. Revista Hispanoamericana de Cultura, [Electronic], 40:10. ISSN-2174-1425
- López, María E. (2014) ‘Reinaldo Arenas: the spokesman of the invisible community’, in Font, M.A. and Tinajero, A. (eds.) Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts: New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Social Change. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 73–96. ISBN: 978161205679.
Other publications
- Lopez, María E. (2022), ‘“This is a Mexican problem, not a women’s issue”: necropolitics at the US–Mexican border’. London Metropolitan University. (8 March).
- Lopez, María E. and Louise Ryan (2021) ‘Bodies at borders: Why it is vital to humanise migrants’, European Politics and Policy (EUROPP-LSE) (2 December)
Non-Resident Research Fellow (2022-2023). Center for US–Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego, US.
Dr María López
Professor of Sociology
School of Social Sciences and Professions
London Metropolitan University
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