Angelina Godoy

About

Angelina Godoy is a Professor at the Law, Societies & Justice department and holds the Helen H. Jackson Chair in Human Rights. She is also the Director of the Center for Human Rights at the University of Washington. Her academic role involves a focus on human rights, and she is involved in international studies. Her research and contributions are centered around human rights issues, and she is recognized for her leadership in this field within the university community.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Law
• Sociology
• Geography
• Development economics
• Pharmacology
• Medicine
• Environmental science
• Market economy
• Economics

Selected publications

• Power, politics, and penality: Punitiveness as backlash in American democracies

  Studies in law, politics, and society · 2008-12-16 · 35 citations

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  Across the Americas, public discussions of crime and penal practices have become increasingly punitive even as political struggles have resulted in a broad shift toward Constitutional democracy. In this chapter, we suggest that the spread of tough anti-crime talk and practice is, paradoxically, a response to efforts to expand and deepen democracy. Punitive crime talk is useful to political actors seeking to limit formal and social citizenship rights for several reasons. First, it ostensibly targ…

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• A Tale of Two Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Quality of Life Initiatives in New York and Bogotá

  Urban Studies · 2009-11-20 · 28 citations

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  In the 1990s, city officials made a concerted effort to enhance security and civility in two large cities long associated with fear and danger: New York City and Bogotá, Colombia. In this article, a comparison is made of how ‘quality of life’ and ‘civility’ were conceptualised and pursued in New York City and Bogotá in the 1990s. The findings suggest that there were some similarities in the conceptualisation and operationalisation of these ideals, and that both cities became markedly safer in th…

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• Market Myths and Assumptions: Examining the Transnational Politics of Access to Medicines Campaigning in Central America

  Studies in Comparative International Development · 2015-05-14 · 21 citations

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• Making meaning of violence: Human rights and historical memory of the conflict in El Salvador

  Journal of Human Rights · 2017-06-13 · 20 citations

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  Human rights narratives about victimization run the risk of depoliticizing the acts of violence that created victims. In many communities in El Salvador, grassroots memory narratives have not suppressed victims' participation in the revolutionary movement before and during the country's civil war. Quite the contrary, one of the key reasons Salvadoran survivors identify for doing memory work is preserving revolutionary ideals — not to preserve the accounting of abuses, as is familiar in internati…

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• Intellectual property and access to medicines: an analysis of legislation in Central America

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2009-08-27 · 15 citations

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  Globalization of intellectual property (IP) protection for medicines has been advancing during the past decade. Countries are obliged to adapt their legislation as a requirement of their membership to the World Trade Organization or as a condition of being part of international trade agreements. There is a growing recognition that, in low-income countries, stronger IP protection is a barrier to access to medicines. At the same time, the number of low-income countries writing national legislation…

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Frequent coauthors

• Alejandro Cerón

  University of Denver

  5 shared

• Katherine Beckett

  University of Washington

  4 shared

• Christopher Chase‐Dunn

  1 shared

• Susanne Jonas

  1 shared

• Nelson Amaro

  1 shared

• H. Warren Clark

  1 shared

• Amanda M. Fulmer

  1 shared

• Deborah M. Weissman

  1 shared

Labs

• Law, Societies & JusticePI

Education

• Ph.D.

  UC Berkeley

• M.A.

  UC Berkeley

• B.A.

  Harvard

Awards & honors

• University of Washington’s 2014 Outstanding Public Service A…

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