Claudia Fonseca Alfaro, new Researcher in History at LNUC Concurrences
Dr. Claudia Fonseca Alfaro has been welcomed as a new Researcher in History at LNUC Concurrences for the period from September to October 2024.
Fonseca Alfaro is a postcolonial and feminist urban scholar with an interest in investigating the present-day entanglements of postcolonial remains, uneven development, and urbanization in the inconspicuous places of the global South. Claudia has expertise in the colonial history of Latin America, particularly Mexico, and experience in qualitive methods, including fieldwork and discourse analysis. An additional research interest is epistemic injustice in academia and how this can be addressed through decolonization efforts. Her latest publication is Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism, a volume within the Antipode Book Series.
During her time at LNUC Concurrences, Claudia plans to develop a new project, The Coloniality of Infrastructure in the Age of the Green Transition. This is a research proposal that seeks to investigate the postcolonial remains and racial logics embedded in infrastructure corridors in a set of countries in Latin America whose natural resources are vital for the global green energy transition.