Publications

Original articles

Fonseca Alfaro C (2025) The Maya Train: Infrastructure and Racial Capitalism in Southeast Mexico. Antipode 57(1): 96-119.

Fonseca Alfaro C (2024) Contours of Racial Capitalism, Urban Geography, and Infrastructure. Geography Compass 18(9).

Fonseca Alfaro C, Celik Ö, Kadioglu D and Melgaço L (2022) Editorial: Dislocating Urban Studies. Urban Matters May. Available at: https://urbanmattersjournal.com/issue/dislocating_urban_studies/

Fonseca Alfaro C, Melgaco L and Baeten G (2022) Understanding smart cities through a critical lens. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures.  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_344-1

Fonseca Alfaro C (2021) Feminist Lefebvre? Understanding Capitalist Urbanization through the Global Intimate. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 20(4).

Fonseca Alfaro C (2020) The production of maquiladora space in Motul, Mexico: from henequen municipality to industrial city. Articulo – Journal of Urban Research 21.

Books and book chapters

Fonseca Alfaro C (2023) Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism, Hoboken: Wiley.

Fonseca Alfaro C (2022) Planetary urbanization and maquiladoras in Motul, Yucatán. Unveiling abstract space in the Ex–City. In: Reis N and Lukas M (eds), Beyond the megacity: New dimensions of peripheral urbanization in Latin America, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Fonseca Alfaro C (2018) The Land of the Magical Maya: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism. Malmö University.

Other (peer-reviewed)

Fonseca Alfaro C (2021). Finding the secondary or overlooked city? Some methodological reflections from a postcolonial urban scholar. In: Neves Alves S and Ruszczyk H (eds), Theorizing from the overlooked city: Generating a research agenda & network on small/secondary cities, digital magazine.

Popular science

Fonseca Alfaro C (2024) Smart Cities in the Global South: Two Case Studies from Mexico. Monterrey: Tori Press. Available at: https://smartcitiesintheglobalsouth.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/zine_smart-cities-in-the-global-south.pdf

Fonseca Alfaro C (2019) Las Maquiladoras En Yucatán: Una Mirada Al Pasado. La Voz de Motul. Yucatán.

Book review

Celik Ö, Fonseca Alfaro C, Kadioglu D, et al. (2021) Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck and Eric Sheppard (eds.) 2020: Urban Studies Inside/Out: Theory, Method, Practice. London: Sage. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.