Publications

Books

• Story of a Death Foretold. The Coup Against Allende, 9/11/1973. London: Bloomsbury (Forthcoming Spring 2013)
• What if Latin America Ruled the World? Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, June 2010. Birkbeck Media Office press release on the book.
• El Fin del Capitalismo. Bogotá/Miami: Siglo del Hombre. (Forthcoming 2009/10).
• Being Against the World: Rebellion and Constitution London: Routledge, Birkbeck Law Press. 2008.
• (with Dussel, E. Grosfoguel, R. Maldonado, N., Henry, P. et al.) The Decolonial Turn. Berkeley and Los Angeles, UC Press.
• (with Mignolo, W., Quijano, A., et al.) Coloniality of Power, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press.
• (with Costas Douzinas, Slavoj Zizek, Beatriz Espinosa et al.) 2005. Derecho, Narracion e Imaginarios, Bogota, Editorial Legis.
• (with Chloe Rutter-Jenssen, Gregory Lobo, Ingrid Bolivar et al.) 2005. Pasarela Paralela. Estudios Culturales Sobre Belleza y Genero en Colombia. Bogota: Pensar/Editorial Javeriana.
• (with Wallerstein, I., Grosfoguel, R., et al.) 2002. The Modern/Colonial World-System in the 21st Century. Global Processes, Anti-systemic Movements and the Geopolitics of Knowledge, Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.
• (with D. López-Medina) 1999. La Otra Guerra. El Derecho Como Continuación del Conflicto y Lenguaje de la Paz. Editorial Plaza y Janés, Bogotá. (Premio Nacional de Ensayo. Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá, Año 2000).
• (with D. López-Medina) 1997: Law and Democracy in Colombia, Harvard Law School / Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Cambridge, Massachussets.
• (with V. Florián, M. García et al.) 1995: Pensar a Foucault, Universidad Nacional de Colombia- Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Politicas y Ciencias Sociales / Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Democracia, Bogotá.

Edited books

• (with Castro Gómez S. & Millán, C. )1999. (eds.) Pensar (en) los Intersticios. Teoría y Práctica de la Crítica Poscolonial, CEJA, Bogotá.

Chapters in edited collections

• 'Notes for a Novella of the Future', in Stone M, I. Wall and C. Douzinas, New Critical Legal Thinking. Law and Political, Routledge July 2012
• 2010. 'Absolute Contingency and the Prescriptive Force of International Law: The Valladolid Debates of 1550', in Events. The Force of International Law (with Koskenniemi, M., Baxi, U., Johns, F. Fitzpatrick, P., et al.). Johns, F., Joyce, R. &  Pahuja, S., eds. (London: Routledge/Cavendish, September 2010).
• 'What comes after Sovereignty', in After Sovereignty: On the Question of Political Beginnings. Balbour, C. & Pavlich, G., eds. (London: Routledge/Cavendish, 2009).
• 'Famous last words: constitucionalismo popular y el lugar de la verdad en politica y derecho', in Ricardo Sanin Restrepo (ed) Justicia constitucional: el rol de la corte constituucional en el estado contemporaneo constitutional justice. (Constitutional and supreme courts in contemporary state politics) Bogota and Miami, Legis (2006), pp.165-208.

Articles

• 'Notes after the end of the world: freedom. Common will and decolonisation', TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 1 (3), pp. 105-119. ISSN 2154-1361.
• 'To Write For One's Time: from Rights, Laws and revolutions to the Persistence of Politics. The Americas, 1973-2012', in The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Routledge (Forthcoming: Spring 2013).
• 'What comes after Sovereignty', in Law, Culture and the Humanities, 6 (June 2010), pp. 185-207
• ‘Forget Sovereignty’, in Journal of Law, Culture and the Humanities. (Forthcoming. 2009)
• 'Éticas orientadas al futuro: nuevos principios en política, moral, y derecho', in Nómadas. Bogotá: Universidad Central. (Forthcoming. 2009)
• 'The Seven Bridges of Koenisbgerg: On general and particular Legal Theory/Los Siete Puentes de Koenisberg: Sobre la Teoria Juridica General y Particular', Nomadas: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 31 (Fall 2009) Bogota: IESCO/Universidad Central.
• 'Tiempo de excepción: El extraño retorno de la religión en política', in Isegoría: Revista de Filosofía Moral y Política. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 39 (2008), pp.227-237.
• 'Law In Other Contexts: A Report From the Law Wars', in International Journal of Law in Context, 4, 2 (2008), pp. 111-134.
• 'Return of the fetish: A plea for a new materialism', Law and Critique 18/3 (2007), 275-307.
• "Paradise Lost. The Meaning of Modernity and the Antinomy of the Law", Law & Critique, 17/1 (2006) 107-127.
• September 2003. "The Question Concerning Law", Modern Law Review 66, Blackwell, Oxford.
• 2002. "In State of Grace: Ideology, Global Capitalism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge",  Nepantla. Views from South, Volume 3, Issue 1. Duke University Press, Durham, USA.
• (with Castro-Gómez, S.) 2002. "Globalización, Universidad y Conocimientos Subalternos. Desafíos Para La Supervivencia Cultural" in Revista Nómadas, no. 16, Universidad Central, Bogotá
• (with Castro-Gómez, S.) 2001. "El Plan Colombia, O de Cómo Una Historia Local Se Convierte en Diseño Global", in Revista Nueva Sociedad, no. 175, Editorial Nueva Sociedad, Caracas, Venezuela.

Conference papers, literary events and invited lectures

• (07/12) Hay Literary Festival, Beirut. Part of the prestigious Hay Festival worldwide.
• (04/12) Radical Politics Conference. PUC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Expenses paid.
• (04/12) Keynote Speech. State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Expenses paid.
• (03/12) Keynote speech. William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA. Expenses paid, part of the Cross-Cultural festival celebrating Latin American & Ethnic Studies Programs in US academia.
• (01/12) Hay Literary Festival, Cartagena. Part of the prestigious Hay Festival worldwide. Expenses paid. 11/11. In conversation with Santiago Roncagliolo. Senate House, London. Organised by one of the most prestigious literary magazines in the world.
• (10/11) Colombiage Literary Salon, London. 10/11. Malcolm X & Betty Shabazz Center, New York. Part of the celbrations of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth; the line-up included Fanon’s daughter, Steve Biko’s son, and Malcolm X’s daughter. Expenses paid.
• (09/11) Caribbean Philosophical Association, New Jersey. Expenses paid.
• (08/11) Beyond Borders Literary Festival, Edinburgh. A very prestigious festival focusing on human rights causes and literature around the world. Expenses paid.
• (07/11) Keynote Speech. Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. Expenses paid.
• (07/11) In conversation with Saskia Sassen and Rana Dasgupta, London Literary Festival, Southbank Centre. 06/11. In conversation with Ray Brassier. Philosophy Formats, Architectural Association, London.
• (11/10) Foyles Bookshop, London. This was a presentation of my book, I was interviwed by Gabriel Garc’ia Marquez’s biographer Gerald Martin.
• (11/10) ‘What if Latin America Ruled the World?’ Workshop. Stony Brook University, New York, US. Keynote Speaker. Expenses paid.
• (10/10) Cosmopolitanism Conference. Sciences Po, Paris, France. Plenary Speaker. Expenses paid.
• (10/10) Naturalism Workshop. University of Kent, UK. Keynote Speaker. Expenses paid.
• (10/10) Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall. Spoken Word Program, London, UK.
• (09/10) Edinburgh Literary Festival, UK. Expenses paid. 09/10. Books, Bikes & Borders Literary Festival, UK. Expenses paid.
• (08/10) ESU International Relations Conference. Oxford University, Mansfield College. Keynote Speaker. Expenses paid.
• (07/10) Human Rights, Southern Voices. University College London. Organised by one of the most prominent British legal scholars, Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence William Twining.
• (2009) ‘Legislative Theatre’. Art & Politics in Global perspective. House of Cultures of the World, Berlin.
• (2009) ‘Cosmopolitanism & Catastrophe’. Cosmopolitanism & the Decolonial Option. Duke University, US.
• (2009) ‘The View from Below’. Warwick/BBK workshop on Cosmopolitanism from below. Warwick University, UK.
• (2009) ‘Post-liberal Politics in Latin America’. Latin American Studies Association. State University of Rio de Janeiro.
• (2009) ‘Images of Liberation. Annual Conference Caribbean Philosophical Association. International Florida University, USA.
• (2009) ‘Ética y política orientadas hacia el futuro’. Conferencia Annual de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofía Política, Buenos Aires.
• (2009) ‘A Future for Human Rights’. University of Pretoria, SA.
• (2009) ‘Left, Right, and the Decolonial’. Duke University/UNC-Chapel Hill, USA.
• (2008) ‘Tras la Globalización’. Conferencia Annual, Universidad de Antioquia, COL.
• (2008) ‘Thomas Jefferson with Guaman Poma de Ayala’. LCH Annual Conference, UC-Berkeley, USA.
• (2008) ‘A Tale of Two Cities’. LCH Conference, UC-Berkeley, USA.
• (2008) ‘Perspectivas contemporáneas en DDHH’. State University of Rio de Janeiro.

Media

• Interviewed on Al Jazeera's Listening Post programme, 26 January 2013.
• Appeared as an expert on the BBC's “Poor us: An Animated History of Poverty” programme on 28 November 2012
• Oscar participated in the Hay Literary Festival in Cartagena, January 2012.
• Oscar is collaborating twice a month with The Globalist, a programme at Monocle 24 radio
• Oscar participated in the 80th anniversary of the BBC World Service on Newshour, on Wednesday 29 February, to discuss the future of global media.
• Oscar participated in The Verb on BBC Radio 3 programme on 1 December 2010, in connection with Granta's current issue on the best of recent narrative in Spanish
• Oscar has an article entitled Tropics of Redemption printed in Granta Online dated 30 November 2010. The article discusses the discusses the hispanicisation of the United States of America.
• Oscar will be participating in the Riz Khan Show on Al-Jazeera on Thursday 29 July to discuss: 'Are Latin American nations ready to exert their influence on the world stage and how could this affect the United States?'
• Oscar discusses his book What if Latin America Ruled the World? in an online interview on 7 July 2010 with JungleDrums, a bi-lingual Brazilian and Latin American magazine that discusses culture, and was also interviewed by Agencia EFE (in Spanish).
• Oscar participated in the BBC World Service' arts programme, The Forum, on Sunday morning, 25 July 2010.
• What if Latin American Ruled the World? was reviewed in The Guardian by Richard Gott on Saturday 3 July 2010, and was also reviewed and star-rated in the US magazine for librarians and book-sellers, Publishers Weekly.
• Monday 28 June, 9:00 am - Oscar Guardiola-Rivera took part in BBC Radio 4's Start the Week (at 13.40 minutes) in conversation with filmmaker John Akomfrah and the former literature editor of The Observer Robert McCrum.
• Oscar was interviewed on the BBC World Service on 1 June 2010: 'The Colombian government is trying to present itself as the Israel of Latin America'.
• Monday 28 June, 9am - Oscar Guardiola-Rivera took part in BBC Radio 4's Start the Week (at 13.40 minutes) in conversation with filmmaker John Akomfrah and the former literature editor of The Observer Robert McCrum.
• What if Latin America Ruled the World? Oscar appeared at the Guardian Hay Festival on Monday 31 May 2010 at 9.00am (Event136) Venue: Elmley Foundation Dream Stage. How the South will take the North into the 22nd Century.
• Article in US online political magazine Counterpunch, 16 February 2009
• Commentator for Radio Catalunya (Spain) on British political affairs.
• September 2008 column published in the online version of 'Revista Semana' (Colombia) on the constitutional reform process of 1990-1.
• Commentary on the DVD version of Ken McMullen's film 'Ghost Dance' (2008)
• Appearing in two feature films currently under production in London: Mark Charles's 'The Secret Philosophy' and Ken McMullen's 'Guns & Poetry'.