Alina de Luna Aldape

Alina de Luna Aldape is a research fellow at the Center for Conflict Studies and doctoral student working on norm translation of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). She has a B.A. in International Relations in Mexico City and a M.A. in Social Sciences (“Global Studies Programme") from the University of Freiburg and the University of Cape Town, including an exchange semester at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Within the field of International Relations and SRHR, her doctoral research looks at the translation of (Comprehensive) Sexuality Education in Kenya. Her work encompasses the dynamics, constellations, structures, actors, and contents of SRHR. By using an intersectional and critical approach, the research focuses on unequal power dynamics, conflicts, body- and sexual politics, and SRHR policy development.

Having previously worked in the NGO sector, she developed research and implemented projects on public policies promoting youth participation and rights. Her M.A. thesis approached the agency, identity, and positionality of “people on the move” and their embodied experiences from a decolonial perspective. She is a member of the Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy (ANSER). Outside academia, she contributes to projects on intersectional justice and femi(ni)cides research.

Current Academic Project

Research fellow in the project “Translating Sexuality. A Comparative Study on the Localization of International Standards for Sexuality Education in School Education Contexts”, Kenya, 2018-2021.

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  - Translation of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
  - Conflicts in SRHR and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
  - Post-, Decolonial Critique and Global South theories
  - Migration and Body Politics

  Methodologies

  Narrative Interviews, Visual Methods, Participatory Research (CBPR); Intersectional/Feminist Approaches

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  2020: Participant at the Doctoral School on Sexual and Reproductive Healths and Rights by ANSER Network

  2019: Paper “This Body We Call Home: Exploring the relation between body and home”, Home Lost: South-South Forum 2019 at Dartmouth College

  SS 2017: Mentor for the Global Studies Programme, University of Freiburg