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I am an urban scholar who integrates critical, postcolonial, and feminist approaches to advance our understanding of global power inequalities.

My main research interest lies in studying how urbanization unfolds and how global capitalism manifests on the ground—how both shape everyday life—in the inconspicuous places of the global South. I explore these dynamics by analyzing how space is produced at the intersection of power, discourse, and imaginaries.

In previous projects, I have investigated global commodity chains and economic development models.

My current work aims to understand the interplay between infrastructure, urbanization, and environmental justice through an engagement with political ecology and Latin American decolonial thought.

Research interests:

  • global commodity chains
  • anthropology of infrastructure
  • production of space
  • everyday life
  • coloniality of power
  • epistemic injustice
  • uneven development
  • comparative urbanism
  • sociological aspects of technology

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Motul, Yucatán. © Claudia Fonseca Alfaro 2016.
Mérida, Yucatán. © Claudia Fonseca Alfaro 2016.
Motul, Yucatán. © Claudia Fonseca Alfaro 2014.

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