Teresa Macías
Assistant Professor
Office: Ross Building, S816
Phone: (416)736-2100 Ext: 66319
Email: tmacias@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.yorku.academia.edu/TeresaMacias
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Teresa Macías earned a Ph.D. from OISE at the University of Toronto. Her Ph.D. Thesis entitled "On the Pawprints of Terror": The Human Rights Regime and the Production of Truth and Subjectivity in Post-Authoritarian Chile traces 20 years of history in the development of Chilean state policy to deal with human rights abuses. Her work deals with issues of disappearances, torture, truth commissions and compensation policy. Her research and teaching interests also include professional and research ethics, and critical anti-racist and anti-colonial practice and teaching methods.
Degrees
PhD, Oise/University of TorontoMaster of Education, Oise/University of Toronto
BSW, Ryerson University
Research Interests
Macías, T. (2014) . ‘Tortured bodies’: The biopolitics of torture and truth in Chile. In S. Perera & S. Razack (Eds.), At the limits of justice: Women of colour theorize terror. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Macias, T. (2014) . "The politics of memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet" Latin American Politics and Society 56(4), 182-185.
Macías, T. (2013) . Arrested justice: Black women, violence, and America's prison nation/Fallgirls: Gender and the framing of torture at Abu Ghraib. Gender, Place & Culture, 20(6), 836-838.
Macías, T. (2015) . "Between a rock and a hard place: Negotiating the neoliberal regulation of social work practice and education." Alternative Routes 26(Special Issue: Neoliberalism and the degradation of education): 251-276.
Macías, T. (2013) . "Bursting Bubbles": The Challenges of Teaching Critical Social Work. Affilia, 28(3), 322-324.
Macías, T. (2013) . "Tortured women and hungry widows": Patriarchal neoliberalism and the logic of compensational justice in Chile. Affilia, 28(2), 126-139.
Macías, T. (2013) . ‘Tortured bodies’: The biopolitics of torture and truth in Chile. The International Journal of Human Rights, 17(1), 113-132.
Macías, T. (2012) . ‘In the world’: Towards a Foucaultian ethics of reading in social work. Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, 1(1), 1-19.
Nelson, J., & Macías, T. (2008) . “Living with a white disease”: Women of color and their engagement with breast cancer resource information. Women's Health and Urban Life, 7(1), 139-142.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2024 | GS/SOWK5450 3.0 | M | Practice Research Paper Seminar | SEMR |
Teresa Macías earned a Ph.D. from OISE at the University of Toronto. Her Ph.D. Thesis entitled "On the Pawprints of Terror": The Human Rights Regime and the Production of Truth and Subjectivity in Post-Authoritarian Chile traces 20 years of history in the development of Chilean state policy to deal with human rights abuses. Her work deals with issues of disappearances, torture, truth commissions and compensation policy. Her research and teaching interests also include professional and research ethics, and critical anti-racist and anti-colonial practice and teaching methods.
Degrees
PhD, Oise/University of TorontoMaster of Education, Oise/University of Toronto
BSW, Ryerson University
Research Interests
All Publications
Macías, T. (2014) . ‘Tortured bodies’: The biopolitics of torture and truth in Chile. In S. Perera & S. Razack (Eds.), At the limits of justice: Women of colour theorize terror. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Macias, T. (2014) . "The politics of memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet" Latin American Politics and Society 56(4), 182-185.
Macías, T. (2013) . Arrested justice: Black women, violence, and America's prison nation/Fallgirls: Gender and the framing of torture at Abu Ghraib. Gender, Place & Culture, 20(6), 836-838.
Macías, T. (2015) . "Between a rock and a hard place: Negotiating the neoliberal regulation of social work practice and education." Alternative Routes 26(Special Issue: Neoliberalism and the degradation of education): 251-276.
Macías, T. (2013) . "Bursting Bubbles": The Challenges of Teaching Critical Social Work. Affilia, 28(3), 322-324.
Macías, T. (2013) . "Tortured women and hungry widows": Patriarchal neoliberalism and the logic of compensational justice in Chile. Affilia, 28(2), 126-139.
Macías, T. (2013) . ‘Tortured bodies’: The biopolitics of torture and truth in Chile. The International Journal of Human Rights, 17(1), 113-132.
Macías, T. (2012) . ‘In the world’: Towards a Foucaultian ethics of reading in social work. Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, 1(1), 1-19.
Nelson, J., & Macías, T. (2008) . “Living with a white disease”: Women of color and their engagement with breast cancer resource information. Women's Health and Urban Life, 7(1), 139-142.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2024 | GS/SOWK5450 3.0 | M | Practice Research Paper Seminar | SEMR |
