I am a Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. My research engages with the social production of space, urbanization processes and inventive methodologies of qualitative research. I am interested in comparative urbanism and a relational understanding of urban territory from post- and decolonial perspectives for a more global approach to understanding cities. Currently, I lead the research project Territorialities in Resistance to Urban Extractivism, which seeks to understand socio-environmental conflicts and the leading role of women* in social organizations. The project focuses on the study of sports megaprojects in the context of the 2026 World Cup.
I obrained my PhD in Social Science from ETH Zurich and hold a MA in Social Anthropology, Sociology and Political Sciences from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. I received several grants, including the Marie-Skłodowska Curie Fellowship from the European Union and the Fellowship for Prospective Researchers from the Swiss National Science Fund. I was a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics LSE, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM in several occasions, and conducted post-doctoral studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University College London UCL, at the HafenCity University Hamburg, and at the Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría CUJAE. I am an associated researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas de la Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz.
- Urban transformations
- Methods and methodologies of qualitative social research
- Post- and decolonial perspectives
- Comparative urbanism
- Critical cartography
- Regional focus: Latin America, in particular Mexico City, La Paz-El Alto (Bolivia) and Havana (Cuba)