Alexandra Jima-González, Ph.D.
OCCASIONAL PROFESSOR 2
- Ext.: 2630
- ajima@yachaytech.edu.ec
Biografía
Short Bio
Alexandra Jima-González holds a Ph.D in Political Science from Universidad de Salamanca, a Master in Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in International Relations from Tecnológico de Monterrey.
In addition to her academic and teaching work in Colombia and Ecuador, she has conducted research for UNICEF in NYC and the Australian Research Council. She has presented her research work in Europe and Latin America and has taken specialized courses at ETH Zurich and Yale University.
Summary of Interests
Collective action and social movements, public policy evaluation and International Relations
Current research projects
Attitudinal changes in Latin America: factors that affect tolerance towards homosexuality in the region.
Selected Publications
- Paradela-López, M. & Jima-González, A. (2021) The contradictions inherent in the concept of symmetry in Michael Walzer’s counter-intervention theory: a case study of the Yemeni conflict, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2021.1876639
- Jima-González A, Paradela-López M. (2020) Indians in Pensamiento Gonzalo: The Influence of 20th-Century Peruvian Intelligentsia on Shining Path’s Ideology. SAGE Open. October 2020. doi:10.1177/2158244020982990
- Paradela-López, M.; Jima-González, A. (2020) Michael Walzer’s Humanitarian Intervention Theory Applied to Multisided Conflicts: A Discussion of Intervention and Self-Determination in the Syrian Civil War. Social Sciences, 9, 41, https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9040041
- Rivas, J.; Rivas, C.; Jima-González, A. (2020). A Political Representation Studies in Ecuador. Links between Elites and Voters, in Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America. Before and After the Great Recession and the Commodity Crisis. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429400414
- Jima-González, A.; Paradela-López, M. (2019) The indigenous movement in Ecuador: resource access and Rafael Correa’s citizens’ revolution. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes, 44:1, 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/08263663.2019.1529463