Juliana Restrepo Sanin, Ph.D.

jsanin@ufl.edu

University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies

Social Media:

X: JulianaRSanin

Research Interests

Gender and Politics

Latin American And Caribbean Politics

Political Violence

Representation and Electoral Systems

Latin American Politics

Gender-Based Violence

Political Representation

Intersectionality

Access To Justice

Women's Movements

Countries of Interest

Colombia

Bolivia

Mexico

Chile

Publications:

Journal Articles:

(2019) “I Don’t Belong Here”: Understanding Hostile Spaces, Journal of Women Politics and Policy

exual harassment law is based in part on a theory of “hostile spaces,” with the central idea being that individual harassing actions have larger consequences for the more general environment in which they take place. But what exactly do they do? This Roundtable will draw on both theory and empirics to consider the causes and consequences of outsiders (women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and working-class people especially) being made to feel they do not belong in political spaces, including parties, legislatures, political campaigns, political science departments and conferences, and more. Sometimes the exclusions are explicitly gendered, raced, or classed, and other times subtler, but the topic is of both personal and academic interest for political science. Feelings of non-belonging and exclusion contribute to the leaking pipeline problem in both elective politics and in our discipline, for outsiders of all stripes, and deprive us of diverse perspectives and good talent that we need in both politics and political science. This roundtable will address first the question of the feeling of non-belonging, and what we know from the research, anecdotal evidence, and personal experience about its causes and effects, and then move on to consider what makes spaces non-hostile and what we need to do in our politics and discipline to achieve that.

(2018) The Law and Violence against Women in Politics, Politics and Gender

Latin America has been at the vanguard in implementing diverse strategies to combat violence against women in politics (VAWIP). In 2012, Bolivia became the first country to criminalize “political violence and harassment against women” with Law 243. Soon, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, and Mexico followed with similar proposals (Krook and Restrepo Sanín 2016). Despite high levels of criminal impunity (Piscopo 2016), legislative measures have been the preferred strategy to combat VAWIP within the region. The Inter-American Commission on Women (CIM) recently published a model law, drawing on experiences in Bolivia, to serve as inspiration for other legislative measures in the region. What can these legislative definitions tell us about the phenomenon of VAWIP, its limits, and its challenges?