Email: p.orellana@qmul.ac.uk
Twitter: @kinti_orellana
Supervisors: Professor Kimberly Hutchings and Dr Holly Ryan
Research topic: Pachakutik: A politics of our times
Doctoral project in Political Theory putting forward a relational reappraisal of the ‘political’ drawing on Andean Philosophy (Runa Kawsay), and aiming at foregrounding the dynamic re-constitution of the ‘global.’
Research Interests: Political theory, Andean philosophy, postcolonial and critical IR theory, the politics and philosophy of time, the politics of knowledge production.
Education:
Work Experience:
Prior to joining SPIR, Kinti served as lecturer in International Relations and Politics in Ecuador at the Universidad del Azuay (UDA) and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ). He has also worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Secretariat of Human Rights of Ecuador and has extensive fieldwork and journalistic experience around environmental and indigenous rights issues.
As of 2023, he is co-Editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Vol. 53), based at the London School of Economics (LSE), and also acts as senior editor for undergraduate Ecuadorian journals such as El Outsider (USFQ) and Prisma: Revista de Estudios Internacionales (UDA).
Publications:
Orellana Matute, Pablo. “Alternative Global Entanglements: ‘Detachment from Knowledge’ and the Limits of Decolonial Emancipation,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies 49, no. 3 (2021): 498–529.
Funding: Recipient, QMUL Principal’s Studentship 2021
Spoken languages: Spanish, English, German, French and Kichwa.
*Kichwa-kañari (indigenous) self-identification.