Priscilla Otero Guerra (Priscilla Otero) is a political scientist in training, a philosopher, a Latin Americanist, and a writer. As a scholar of political science, she is interested in democratization, state-society relations, political violence, geopolitics, and the politics of development. Her research interests span a variety of topics from regimes to state capacity to political parties and socio-political determinants. Priscilla’s additional interests in political-economic history and philosophy navigate topics that intersect comparative and international affairs disciplines analyzing liberties, policies, and strategies. She obtained her A.B from Gustavus Adolphus College and earned an MPhil from the University of Oxford.
Priscilla is currently working on a book on philosophy of mind, a project on Latin American affairs, a collection of poetry, and on foreign policy.
As a philosopher Priscilla Otero Guerra has identified Eco-Aristocratic Conservatism (Left Eco-Conservatism) stemming from her use of eco-conservatism in the Burkean tradition and her identification of Eco-Aristocratic Socialism (Left-Wing Conservative Socialism) .
Academic Publications here
More on her substack: https://priscillaoteroguerra.substack.com
Priscilla Otero Guerra has also written in political economics and feminist gender theory. She developed in her MPhil thesis on authoritarian inheritance in Latin American party systems; Development embeddedness, the domination of particular ideologies in policy formation explains why legacy elites perceive certain climate governance arrangements (technocratic, market-oriented, exclusionary) as naturally legitimate rather than politically contested. Collective institutionalized violence, repressive measures creating power imbalances through inclusion and exclusion, operates through eligibility criteria that systematically exclude constitute violence by administrative means, producing distributional harm without visible coercion. Ideological practice are ideas that have become common practices; captures the political socialization mechanism; inherited assumptions about legitimate state-society relations that has become naturalized and depoliticized, rendering exclusionary governance invisible as such. These concepts specify how authoritarian legacies transmit rather than merely asserting that they do.
In 2024, she founded the Good Climate Governance Project and currently sits on its board.
Regions of Specialization: USA, Latin America, Europe, Africa
Languages spoken: English, Spanish, French
Languages studied: Portuguese, Swedish, Russian
https://github.com/PriscillaOteroGuerra
Videos of political commentary for a general audience at We Have Not Been Slain.
X posts here.
Linkedin here.