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Inés Villanueva Pérez

Inés Villanueva Pérez

Doctoral Student

She/Her

BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / Universidad Carlos III de Madrid — Spain); MA in Contemporary Philosophy (Universidade de Lisboa — Portugal / Université de Lille — France)

Political Studies

Doctoral Student

Mackintosh-Corry Hall B305

Supervisors: Dr. Margaret Moore & Dr. Will Kymlicka

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Gender and Politics
Graduate Students
PhD Students
Political Theory

Biography:

Inés Villanueva Pérez is a PhD student in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, where she specializes in Political Theory and Gender and Politics. Her research interests revolve around the politics of the nonhuman, who is included in the political community, and how territory shapes political subjectivities and agency. She is also interested in Indigenous feminisms, political philosophy, and ways of knowing.

Selected Publications:

Hennrich, D. M. & Villanueva Pérez, I. (2024). “‘I am in mourning for life on Earth’: taking precariousness and grievability beyond the human”. Perspectiva Filosófica (PF), 51(1), 86-108. Contribution: 85%.

Villanueva Pérez, I. (2023). “Sobre el derecho a persistir: La vulnerabilidad como herramienta ontopolítica de ampliación ética” [trans.: “On the right to persist: vulnerability as an onto-political tool of ethical broadening”]. In I Congreso Internacional de Humanidades Ecológicas: Pensamiento, Arte y Educación ante las crisis y para las transiciones ecosociales [trans.: 1st International Congress on Ecological Humanities: Thought, Art and Education before the crises and for eco-social transitions] (p. 27). Âther Studio. [Conference proceedings publication]

Villanueva Pérez, I. (2020). “Pensar el progreso y la utopía. Mies y Bauman: ¿contraposición de horizontes?” [trans.: “Reflections on progress and utopia. Mies and Bauman: contrasted horizons?”] in A. Rivero-Vadillo, C. Flys-Junquera (eds.), Envisioning Change: Environmental Humanities (pp. 53-66). Vernon Press.

Villanueva Pérez, I. (2019). “Activismo climático y decrecimiento. El caso de Fridays For Future Barcelona” [trans.: “Climate activism and degrowth. The case of Fridays for Future Barcelona”], Ecología política, 58, 103-106. [trade journal]

Awards:

  • 2025 Ellen Henderson Award in Political Theory (PhD)
  • 2025 Queen’s Graduate Award (PhD)
  • 2022-2023 IKS Excellence Scholarship and Fellowship (MA)
  • 2021 Segimon Serrallonga Excellence Scholarship (MA)

Teaching: 

POLS250 Introduction to Political Theory; POLS350 History of Political Thought