Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán

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Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán Ramírez
NationalitySpanish
Occupations
  • Political scientist
  • Newspaper director

Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán Ramírez is a Spanish political scientist. She is a professor of political science and international relations at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She specializes in feminist political theory and the study of populism. In 2018, she became the Opinion Director of the newspaper El País.

Life and career[edit]

Martínez-Bascuñán studied law and political science at the Autonomous University of Madrid,[1] where she received a doctorate in Political Science under the supervision of Rafael del Águila Tejerina (es).[2] She also studied political science at Sciences Po, as well as with Iris Marion Young at The University of Chicago, and with Jean L. Cohen at Columbia University.[3]

Martínez-Bascuñán is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where she specializes in feminist political theory.[3] She also studies the theory of gender and politics, populism, deliberative democracy, and migration policy.[3][4] In 2012, she published a book about the political theory of Iris Marion Young, called Género, emancipación y diferencia(s). La teoría política de Iris Marion Young.[5] She was also a coauthor, with Fernando Vallespín (es), of a 2017 book on populism, called Populismos.[6]

In addition to her academic work, she has actively published opinion articles in popular media on subjects related to her academic specialties. In 2016, she became a columnist for the newspaper El País.[7] In June 2018, she was named the Opinion Director of the newspaper.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Montero, Tamara (December 12, 2018). "Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán: "Cuando el populismo es todo se convierte en nada, no explica nada"". La Voz de Galicia (in Galician). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  2. ^ Campillo, Neus (2013). "El significado de la crítica y de la responsabilidad". Enrahonar Quaderns de Filosofia (in Spanish). 51: 41–59. doi:10.5565/rev/enrahonar.8.
  3. ^ a b c "Martínez Ramírez, Mariam" (in Spanish). Autonomous University of Madrid. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  4. ^ Tremolada, Eric (March 9, 2020). "Liderazgo sobredimensionado". La Republica (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  5. ^ "El populismo y la crisis de la democracia liberal abren el XII Curso de la Escuela de Ciudadanía". Lanza Digital (in Spanish). October 21, 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  6. ^ Zamitiz Gamboa, Héctor (April 2019). "Revista Fernando Vallespín y Máriam M. Bascuñán, Populismos, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2017". Estudios Políticos. 46: 235–238.
  7. ^ a b "Un nuevo equipo para El País". El País (in Spanish). June 13, 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2020.