I am a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Division of Literature and Languages. I joined the Division in 2018 after having taught in Newcastle and Durham Universities.
I teach on the undergraduate programme in Spanish and Latin American Studies, as well as giving occasional contributions to postgraduate teaching in the Faculty.
I am co-director of the Postcolonial Studies Research Group at Stirling, through which we hold a number of events each semester and promote the importance of postcolonial and decolonial theoretical approaches. I am also involved in a number of other initiatives across the university such as leading on the Inclusive Curriculum Short-Term Working Group from 2021-22, collaborations with other colleagues for Secondary School outreach and the promotion of Modern Languages, and am part of the Staff Netwerq and the LGBT+ student support contacts network.
Broadly speaking, my research interests focus on Iberian experiences of modernity and colonialism from the perspective of cultural studies and critical theory, especially where these questions intersect with notions of class, race and gender. For more detail, please see under the research tab.
I have research interests in critical race and Indigenous studies, critical and political theory (especially deconstruction, psychoanalysis and Marxism), the intellectual history of Spain and Latin America, and any study of cultural texts analysed from the perspective of those questions.
My individual research projects currently include finalising a monograph on the Bolivian Indigenous political movements of Indianism and Katarism, which is under contract with Tamesis in their Monografías series. Alongside this, I am in the initial stages of a new project studying the film production of Corporación Rupai and the Kichwa director Alberto Muenala in Ecuador, following from a project on Indigenous film funded by the British Academy.
I am also currently working on a number of collaborations. With other colleagues, we are in the initial stages of proposing a Digital Humanities project looking into the history of Indigenous film festivals in Latin America. With members of the same team, we are also working on the first extant translation of the classic third cinema text Teoría y práctica de un cine junto al pueblo by Jorge Sanjinés and the Grupo Ukamau, which will include a critical introduction. The rights to the translation are currently under discussion with the Fundación Ukamau, and we are planning a special issue with other scholars to commemorate the 45 years since its original publication.
Finally, I continue to be an active member in a wider research network focusing on fostering critical theory in Spanish, which meets regularly in a conference run by the Universidade de Vigo. With one of those members, we are currently writing an article on autographic writing practices, and seek to extend that collaboration with further research projects into the future.
Article
Ways Out of the Void? Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories in Relation to Armenia and Armenianness
Wilson S, Baker P, Vartikyan A & Shahnazarian N (2025) Ways Out of the Void? Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories in Relation to Armenia and Armenianness. Diaspora: A Transnational Journal, 25 (1). https://doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.25.1.2025.01.22
Book Chapter
Baker P (2024) Cinema N?vo. In: Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780415249126-rem2149-1
Other
Hacia una ontología del cine indígena en América Latina
Leyva Quintero E, Baker P & Pareja Román R (2024) Hacia una ontología del cine indígena en América Latina. Pléyade. Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, 32, pp. 45-63. https://www.revistapleyade.cl/index.php/OJS/index
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The Writing of Existence in the Latest Work of Alberto Moreiras
Baker P (2023) The Writing of Existence in the Latest Work of Alberto Moreiras. Philosophy and Society, 34 (1), pp. 120-140. http://journal.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/index.php?journal=fid; https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2301120B
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Autographic Praxis: An Infrapolitical Adventure
Cerrato M & Baker P (2023) Autographic Praxis: An Infrapolitical Adventure [Autographic Praxis]. Angelaki, 30 (6).
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Between Futurology and Extinction: A Transautographic Experiment in Two Turns
Baker P & Cerrato M (2023) Between Futurology and Extinction: A Transautographic Experiment in Two Turns [Between Futurology and Extinction]. Culture Machine, 22. https://culturemachine.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Futurology-Cerrato-Baker.pdf
Other
Baker P (2023) A contracorriente del cine establecido. Entrevista con Alberto Muenala sobre los primeros a?os del cine kichwa en el Ecuador [A contracorriente del cine establecido]. ?awi, 7 (2), pp. 235-247. https://doi.org/10.37785/nw.v7n2
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Baker P (2023) Imaginaries of Abya Yala: Indigenous Filmmaking in Latin America from a Multimodal Semiotics Perspective. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2022.2149230
Book Chapter
Hacia una crítica del terror: Inquisición y marranismo
Baker P (2021) Hacia una crítica del terror: Inquisición y marranismo. In: Lerza J, Graff Zivin E, Moreiras A & Villaca?as JL (eds.) Terror: La perspectiva hispana. Madrid: Guillermo Escolar. https://www.guillermoescolareditor.com/libro/terror_117602/
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Baker P (2021) Unsettling the Language of Settlement: Imaginaries of Race and Experiences of Settlement in Contemporary Bolivia. Settler Colonial Studies, 11 (3), pp. 366-385. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2020.1851939
Book Chapter
Politics of the Multitude: Seven Theses on Posthegemony
Baker P (2020) Politics of the Multitude: Seven Theses on Posthegemony. In: Marramao G (ed.) Interregnum: Between Biopolitics and Posthegemony. Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis International. http://mimesisinternational.com/interregnum-between-biopolitics-and-posthegemony/
Other
El ciney video indígena: vidas en movimiento
Baker P (2020) El ciney video indígena: vidas en movimiento. [Online essay]. Santiago: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino.
Book Chapter
Baker P, Feldman I, Geddes M, Lagos F & Pareja R (2019) Introduction. In: Baker P, Feldman I, Geddes M, Lagos Rojas F & Pareja R (eds.) Latin American Marxisms in Context: Past and Present. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. ix-xxiv. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-3518-3
Edited Book
Latin American Marxisms in Context: Past and Present
Baker P, Feldman I, Geddes M, Lagos F & Pareja R (eds.) (2019) Latin American Marxisms in Context: Past and Present. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/latin-american-marxisms-in-context
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Reflexión infrapolítica y democracia: una introducción
Mu?oz G & Baker P (2018) Reflexión infrapolítica y democracia: una introducción. Pensamiento al Margen, Especial, Art. No.: 1. https://pensamientoalmargen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Reflexi%C3%B3n-infrapol%C3%ADtica-y-democracia.pdf
Book Chapter
An Infantile Witness in the New Bolivia: Juan Carlos Valdivia's 'Zona sur'
Baker P (2018) An Infantile Witness in the New Bolivia: Juan Carlos Valdivia's 'Zona sur'. In: Page P, Selimovic I & Sutherland C (eds.) The Feeling Child: Politics, Childhood and Affect in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Film. 1st ed. Children and Youth in Popular Culture. Maryland: Lexington Books, pp. 97-124. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498574419/The-Feeling-Child-Affect-and-Politics-in-Latin-American-Literature-and-Film
Book Chapter
Baker P (2017) Barbarie. In: Moreiras A & Villaca?as JL (eds.) Conceptos fundamentales del pensamiento latinoamericano actual. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva. https://www.marcialpons.es/libros/conceptos-fundamentales-del-pensamiento-latinoamericano-actual/9788416938841/
Book Chapter
Baker P (2017) Modernismo. In: Moreiras A & Villaca?as J (eds.) Conceptos fundamentales del pensamiento latinoamericano actual. Madrid, Spain: Biblioteca nueva.
Article
(Post)Hegemony and the Promise of Populism: Reflections on the Politics of Our Times
Baker P (2016) (Post)Hegemony and the Promise of Populism: Reflections on the Politics of Our Times. Politica comun, 10. https://doi.org/10.3998/pc.12322227.0010.002
Book Chapter
Baker P (2016) Modernismo. In: Ray S, Schwarz H, Villaca?as BJ, Moreiras A & Shemak A (eds.) Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Encyclopedia+of+Postcolonial+Studies-p-9781444334982
Book Chapter
Baker P (2016) Glauber Rocha. In: Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. London: Routledge. https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/rocha-glauber-1939-1981; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781135000356-REM1218-1
Book Chapter
Baker P (2016) Nelson Pereira dos Santos. In: Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. London: Routledge. https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/pereira-dos-santos-nelson-1928; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781135000356-REM341-1
Article
Baker P (2015) Can the State Learn to Live Well? Alvaro Garcia Linera as an Intellectual of the State and Interpreter of History. Culture, Theory and Critique, 56 (3), pp. 283-296. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2015.1012684
Article
Baker P (2015) Mapping the Glocal and Deciphering the Asymmetry of Economies of Code in Giacomo Marramao's The Passage West. Politica comun, 8. https://doi.org/10.3998/pc.12322227.0008.007
My teaching falls mainly under the Undergraduate Spanish and Latin American Studies and joint programmes. I have also contributed to some modules at undergraduate level in Global Cinema and in the MRes in Humanities, the MSc in Translation and the MSc in Human Rights and Diplomacy.