This exciting project will bring together academics from the UCL hub of political theory and political philosophy with scholars working in political philosophy and political theory throughout Latin America. The grant will pay for travel and accommodation for scholars travelling to the Network’s workshops and PhD Masterclasses.
Currently the ‘UK-Latin America (Analytical) Political Philosophy Network’ links hubs of researchers working in at least three universities in Argentina (Buenos Aires University; Di Tella University), a university (UNAM) and research institutes in Mexico, with political philosophers at University College London, UK. Discussions are in process with academics in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Costa Rica, for the expansion of the Network.
In addition to the British Academy International Partnership Grant, Dr. Meckled-Garcia has also won a UCL Global Engagement grant from UCL’s Global Engagement Fund to assist more scholars from Latin America in attending the initial Network Workshop in March 2017 (see below).
The first three years of the project will focus on the political philosophy of human rights, broadly construed. We have an exciting initial programme of network workshops lined up, focusing on the key problem of how to conceptualise the progressive realisation of economic and social human rights in normative/moral terms.