麻豆传媒

Lorenza is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Politics in the Politics Department. Prior to this, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow based at 麻豆传媒 and Harvard University. Lorenza has also served as political analyst and researcher for the United Nations Development Programme and other international organisations. She has held visiting positions at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia.

Qualifications

• B.A. in Communication and Journalism, University of Torino, IT
• M.A. in International Relations, University of Bologna, IT
• Ph.D in Politics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, IT 

Languages

• English (fluent)
• Spanish (fluent)
• French (fluent)
• Italian (mother tongue)

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My research interests include contentious politics and conflict studies, human rights and global justice, multicultural citizenship and resource governance, with a focus on the Global South and particularly Latin America. I have also worked on the post-2015 development agenda and the challenges of identifying new research priorities and foster participation especially from the Global South within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework. My work is highly multidisciplinary, drawing from comparative politics and international relations, sociological approaches to collective action, and critical development theories.

Funding 

Principal Investigator ‘Playing with fire: Using forum theatre to investigate social conflict in the aftermath of the 2019 Bolivian wildland fires’ Urgency Award, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (£150,000) 2020/2021

Principal Investigator ‘The Determinants of Inter-communal Conflicts in Rural Bolivia: New Evidence with Quantitative Data’, Pioneer Award, 麻豆传媒 Institute for Social Science (£5,000) 2020/2021

Postgraduate Supervision

I am happy to supervise students working in any of my research interests, in particular politics of international development, Latin American politics, human rights and social justice, social movements and identity politics.

PhD Students

Jocelyn Hickey "Exploring Epistemologies of Reading through an Engagement with Adam Smith's 'Invisible Hand'"

POL3126 Latin American Politics 

POL3046 Dissertation in Politics 

• Fontana LB. . In: Federico M. Rossi, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp.590-606.
• Fontana LB. . In: Donatella della Porta, Doug McAdam, David Snow, ed. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2021. In Press.
• Fontana LB. . Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2023.
• Oldekop JA, Vang Rasmussen L, Agrawal A, Bebbington AJ, Meyfroidt P, Bengston DN, Blackman A, Brooks S, Davidson I, Davies P, Dinsi S, Fontana LB, Gumucio T, Kumar C, Kumar K, Moran C, Mwampamba T, Nasi N, Nilsson M, Pinedo-Vasquez MA, Rhemtulla JM, Sutherland WJ, Watkins C, Wilson SJ. . Nature Plants 2020, 6, 1400-1407.
• Fontana LB. . Human Rights Quarterly 2020, 42(4), 859-877.
• Fontana LB, Oldekop JA. . World Development 2020, 127, 104770.
• Fontana LB. . International Sociology 2019, 34(2), 187-190.
• Gregel J, Fontana LB. . Development and Change 2019, 50(3), 707-734.
• Fontana LB. . Journal of Education Policy 2019, 34(3), 351-373.
• Giller KE, Drupady IM, Fontana LB, Oldekop JA. . Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2018, 34, A1-A2.
• Fontana LB, Grugel J. . Human Rights Quarterly 2017, 39(3), 631-656.
• Fontana LB. On the Margins of World Society: Working with impoverished, excluded & marginalised people. In: G. Crawford, L. Kruckenberg, N. Loubere, and R. Morgan, ed. Undertaking Global Development Research: Fieldwork Issues, Experiences and Reflections. Sage Publications Ltd, 2017.
• Fontana LB. . Bulletin of Latin American Research 2017, 36(2), 262-263.
• Oldekop JA, Fontana LB, Grugel J, Roughton N, Adu-Ampong EA, Bird GK, Dorgan A, Vera Espinoza MA, Wallin S, Hammett D, Agbarakwe E, Agrawal A, Asylbekova N, Azkoul C, Bardsley C, Bebbington AJ, Carvalho S, Chopra D, Christopoulos S, Crewe E, Dop M-C, Fischer J, Gerretsen D, Glennie J, Gois W, Gondwe M, Harrison LA, Hujo K, Keen M, Laserna R, Miggiano L, Mistry S, Morgan RJ, Raftree LL, Rhind D, Rodrigues T, Roschnik S, Senkubuge F, Thornton I, Trace S, Ore T, Valdes RM, Vira B, Yeates N, Sutherland WJ. . Development Policy Review 2016, 34(1), 55-82.
• Grugel J, Nem Singh J, Fontana LB, Ulhin A, ed. . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Fontana LB, Grugel J. . World Development 2016, 77, 249-261.
• Fontana LB. . Social Identities 2015, 21(3), 273-293.
• Fontana LB, Grugel J. . Global Governance 2015, 21(1), 61-78.
• Fontana LB. . Critique Internationale 2014, 64(7), 101-120.
• Fontana LB. . Iberoamericana. Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2014, 43(1-2), 19-45.
• Fontana LB. . Bulletin of Latin American Research 2014, 33(4), 436-451.
• Fontana LB. . Journal of Peasant Studies 2014, 41(3), 297-319.
• Fontana LB. . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2014, 32(3), 518-534.
• Fontana LB. . Journal of Peace, Conflict and Development 2013, 20, 20-37.
• Do Alto H, Fontana L. . Trace 2013, 63, 24-34.
• Fontana LB. . Latin American Perspectives 2013, 40(3), 26-42.
• Fontana LB, Sparti D. . Studi Culturali 2012, 9(2), 175-200.
• Calderón F, Fontana LB, Nava I, Pacheco H. . Siglo XXI; UNDP, 2012.
• Fontana LB. . Bolivian Studies Journal 2012, 19, 190-212.
• Fontana LB. . Afriche e Orienti 2008, 2/2008, 161-174.