Claudia Fonseca Alfaro is a postcolonial 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 examined extended urbanization and the production of space and their intersections with mass tourism, global commodity chains, infrastructure-led development models, and smart urbanism. An additional research interest is epistemic injustice in academia and how this can be addressed through decolonization efforts. Fonseca Alfaro is the author of Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism, a volume within the Antipode Book Series. Her latest work seeks to investigate the interplay between extractivism, infrastructure, and racializing practices.
Visit www.claudiafonsecaalfaro.com for more information about Claudia’s work, including photo essays and a blog that reflects on issues of decoloniality, feminist perspectives, and pedagogy.
