SEDE: SEDE COCHABAMBA

Research group: CICS Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales

Email: adhemar.mercado@ucb.edu.bo

Adhemar Mercado holds a PhD in International Relations from Aberystwyth University (2018). He is currently a full-time lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Letters and a researcher at the Centre for Research in Social Sciences (CICS) of the Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo". He previously served as Director of the Philosophical and Theological Research Institute (IFTI) of the San Pablo Faculty of Theology. His research focuses on Indigenous movements, socio-environmental governance, democracy, and processes of decolonisation in Latin America. He also examines the role of popular religiosity and patronal festivals in shaping Bolivia’s cultural and political identity.