Eduardo Tinajero

Eduardo Tinajero is a doctoral researcher at the HCIAS and the Faculty of Modern Languages and a member of the HCIAS Doctoral Research Group “Communication and Society in Ibero-America”. His doctoral project, ‘Zone of Convergence – Discourse, Power, and Sovereignty at the Mexico-Texas border’ is supervised by Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yaatsil Guevara González. 

Eduardo is an applied linguist and is primarily interested in the exercise of power through discourse, as well as how hegemonic discourses (re)produce common-sense beliefs and practices. In his master's dissertation at the University of Leicester, he examined the discursive constructions of migrants in political documents in which they are increasingly constructed as enemies of the state through recontextualization and intertextuality. 

His current multimodal research examines Operation Lone Star - a Texas-led border security initiative at the Mexico-Texas border - as an evolving assemblage of discursive, non-discursive, and necropolitical practices. Situated within a post-structuralist framework, this study interrogates the intersecting concepts of sovereignty, surveillance, power relations, and the state of exception.