Iván Ávila

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Iván Ávila is a political scientist and researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His main research interests include cultural studies, biopolitics, social studies of science, queer theory and contemporary political theory. Currently, as a fellow at the Universidad de los Andes, is carrying out a project whose purpose is to analyze the discursive production of animals during the consolidation and development of the animal husbandry in Colombia. He is the author of “De la isla del doctor Moreau al planeta de los simios: la dicotomía humano/animal como problema político” (Ediciones Desde Abajo, 2013). 

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