Ms Carmen Sepúlveda Zelaya
BA Political Science (PUC Chile), MPhil Development Studies (USussex/IDS)
Overview
Department of Development Studies
Teaching Fellow
- Name:
- Ms Carmen Sepúlveda Zelaya
- Email address:
- cs82@soas.ac.uk
- Office No:
- 289
- Office Hours:
- Thursday 3.30-5pm
- Thesis title:
- The Legal and Political Battles Behind the Distribution of Emergency Contraception in Chile under Ricardo Lagos (2000-2005) and Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010)
- Year of Study:
- Final year
- Website:
- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/people/research-students
PhD Research
My research focuses on the legal and political battles behind the distribution of emergency contraception in Chile -- under the Concertación governments of Ricardo Lagos (2000-2005) and Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010). I am interested in the role of institutions and actors in the policy process, particularly feminists, lawyers, and doctors, as well as judges and courts within a context of increasing judicialisation of women’s reproductive rights. I believe my research contributes to current debates on feminist political science and sociology of law. My thematic interests include: feminism, women’s movements, sexual and reproductive rights, gender and health, abortion, public health, democratisation, judicialisation processes.
PhD Conferences
“Chile’s Winter of Discontent: The Breakdown of a Paradigm in Latin America”, Cambridge, May 11, 2012.
Research
I am interested in the crucial crossing between gender and politics, and the way feminist thinking informs (or not) the way policies are made. I am particularly interested in SRHR and health policies, women’s movements, gender and the state, institutions and actors and the role of law on gender politics.
