Alina Ribeiro has a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Institute of Higher Education of Brasília (IESB-Brazil). She is currently a Master’s student in Social Sciences at the Department of Latin American Studies at the University of Brasília (ELA-UnB), Brazil, a collaborator at the Center for International Policy Studies (CEPI – University of Buenos Aires) and a student researcher at the Research Group on Latin America (NEL/UnB). Her main research interests include democracy, decolonial thinking, epistemologies of the South and the formation of the Bolivian plurinational state.

Marina Scotelardo holds Bachelor’s and PhD degrees in International Relations from the Pontifical University of Minas Gerais (PUCMG-Brazil) and a Master’s in Social Policy from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES-Brazil). She is currently a post-doctoral fellow in International Relations at the Federal University of Brasília (UnB-Brasil). Her research interests include international political economy, regionalism, sociology of knowledge, and postcolonialism.