Dr Camila Vergara
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873843
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Location
EBS.3.14, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Dr. Camila Vergara is a critical legal theorist, historian, and journalist from Chile writing on the relation between inequality and the law, and the possible institutional solutions to systemic corruption. She is Editor of Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, Associate Editor of Critical Sociology, and organiser of the the Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism. She is the author of Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (Princeton University Press 2020), and her work on constitutional theory, republicanism, corruption, and populism has been featured in leading international journals such as the Journal of Political Philosophy, History of Political Thought, and REVUS: Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law. She is also a global public intellectual 鈥攚ith her articles and interviews featured in outlets such as New Left Review, Jacobin, Politico, Revista Plebeya, and Il Manifesto Inret鈥� and an activist advising and collaborating with grassroots organisations on rights, deliberative democracy, and community-based forms of governance.
Qualifications
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PhD in Political Theory Columbia University, (2019)
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MA in Politics New School, (2012)
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MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies New York University, (2008)
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BA in History Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, (2004)
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BA in Journalism & Media Studies Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, (2000)
Appointments
糖心Vlog
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Engagement and Impact Officer, 糖心Vlog Business School (1/9/2023 - 1/9/2025)
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Associate Director of Research & Impact, Business School Lausanne (1/1/2025 - present)
Research and professional activities
Conferences and presentations
Public Lecture on 鈥楢nti-Oligarchic Constitutionalism鈥�
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, University of Liverpool Public Law Unit, 5/12/2024
Keynote Speech, 5th Annual Conference SAFI Interdisciplinary Network for Women in Legal Academia
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, University of Glasgow, 10/9/2024
Keynote speaker on 'Eco-Legality'
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Lake Como Summer School in Critical Theory of Society, 7/9/2024
Keynote on Rhizomatic Socialism: Sortition, Rotation & Collective Action
Keynote presentation, Sortition and Socialism, International Network of Sortition Advocates (INSA), New York --online, United States, 31/8/2024
Keynote 鈥楶lebeian Populism: Extraordinary Politics in the Time of Oligarchy鈥�
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, University of Sussex, 6/3/2024
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Cooperative Management and Marketing 锟� Capstone Module (BE940)
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Student Success Tutorial (BE917)
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Social Economy Management: Theories and Perspectives (BE495)
Publications
Publications (1)
Vergara, C., (2020). Machiavelli鈥檚 Plebeian Constituent Power
Journal articles (14)
Mudde, C., M眉ller, J-W., Mouffe, C., J盲ger, A., Vergara, C., Flohr, M. and Dreyer Hansen, A., (2024). . Slagmark - Tidsskrift for id茅historie. 85, 239-263
Vergara, C., (2023). El pueblo plebeyo populista: Ciudadanos de segunda clase y la l贸gica refundacional. STUDIA POLITIC脝, 154-177
Vergara, C., (2022). Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century. By H茅l猫ne Landemore. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2020. 272p. $35.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.. Perspectives on Politics. 20 (3), 1059-1061
Biale, E., Stein, M., Vergara, C., McKean, B. and Azmanova, A., (2022). Regaining control over precarity. Contemporary Political Theory. 21 (4), 640-666
Vergara, C., (2022). . History of Political Thought. 43 (5), 28-54
Vergara, C., (2022). . Revus. 46 (46)
Vergara, C., (2022). . Theoria. 69 (171), 25-48
Vergara, C., (2022). Response to H茅l猫ne Landemore鈥檚 Review of Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic. Perspectives on Politics. 20 (3), 1064-1064
Vergara, C., (2021). Corruption as systemic political decay. Philosophy & Social Criticism. 47 (3), 322-346
Vergara, C., (2021). . Etica e Politica/Ethics and Politics. 23 (3), 283-291
Vergara, C., (2020). . Journal of Political Philosophy. 28 (2), 222-246
Vergara, C., (2020). John P.聽McCormick, Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018)Gabriele聽Pedull脿, Machiavelli in Tumult: The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Constellations. 27 (2), 316-320
Ducange, J-N., Vergara, C., Ahmed, T. and H酶gsbjerg, C., (2020). Book Reviews. Theoria. 67 (163), 106-118
Vergara, C., (2020). . Revue europ茅enne des sciences sociales. 58 (2), 77-96
Books (3)
Vergara, C., Plebeian Republic. Verso Books
Vergara, C., (2020). Rep煤blica plebeya gu铆a pr谩ctica para constituir el poder popular. 9568681574. 9789568681579
Vergara, C., (2020). . Princeton University Press. 0691211566. 9780691207537
Book chapters (11)
Vergara, C., The People and Constituent Power. In: Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power,. Oxford University Press
Vergara, C., (2024). Lenin, the (un)making of a critical legal theorist. In: LENIN: The Heritage We (Don鈥檛) Renounce. Editors: Joffre-Eichhorn, HJ. and Anderson, P., . Daraja Press. 9781998309047
Vergara, C. and Yumatle, C., (2024). Derechos humanos: Del individualismo universal al constructivismo democr谩tico. In: El mundo visto desde Am茅rica Latina. Una revisi贸n de los conceptos b谩sicos de las relaciones internacionales. Editors: Chenou, J-M., Covarrubias, A. and Yumatle, C., . Siglo XXI Editores. 53- 86. 9878013561. 9789878013565
Vergara, C., (2023). From Chile to New York City: Systemic Corruption and Oligarchic Domination. In: Talking About Global Inequality Personal Experiences and Historical Perspectives. Springer Nature. 139- 145. 3031080424. 9783031080425
Vergara, C., (2023). Introduction to the Anniversary Edition: Legalism and Its Dead Ends. In: Conversations with Allende Socialism in Chile. Verso Books. 1804293334. 9781804293331
Vergara, C., (2023). . In: The Future of Lenin: Power, Politics, and Revolution in the Twenty-First Century. Editors: Ivanchikova, A. and Maclean, RR., . SUNY Press. 257- 280. 9781438488066
Vergara, C., (2022). . In: How Democracy Survives Global Challenges in the Anthropocene. Editors: Deese, S. and Holm, M., . Routledge. 212- 228. 9781000812893
Vergara, C., (2021). Political Action, Revolutionary Parties and the Transition to a Republic of Councils. In: Rosa Luxemburg Band 2: Nachwirken. 3963172452. 9783963172458
Vergara, C., (2021). . In: Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: New Readings. Editors: Aur茅lio, DP. and Campos, AS., . Brill. 143- 161. 9789004442078
Vergara, C., (2020). Populism: Plebeian Power against Oligarchy. In: Constituent Power Law, Popular Rule and Politics. Edinburgh University Press. 183- 198. 1474454992. 9781474454995
Vergara, C., (2020). Crisis Government: The Populist as Plebeian Dictator. In: Mapping Populism: Approaches and Methods. Routledge. 100004338X. 9781000043389
Grants and funding
2025
Decolonising Partnerships for Energy Commons
糖心Vlog (Research England - ODA)
2024
Decolonizing International aid through re-imagining structures of partnerships between NGOs in Global South and Global North
糖心Vlog (Research England - ODA)
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