Claudia Fonseca Alfaro
About Claudia Fonseca Alfaro
Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology and Global Studies
I am 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.
Research areas
My academic journey has been driven by a curiosity to unpack the complex dynamics of inequality and capitalism, emphasizing everyday life while considering global processes. A central research interest of mine is to interrogate the socio-spatial manifestations of hidden types of urbanization and to expose their present-day entanglements with colonial legacies, environmental inequalities, and racializing practices.
I am the author of Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism (2023) and have published widely on the production of space and its intersections with global commodity chains, infrastructure-led development models, and smart urbanism.
Teaching
I teach and supervise across the School鈥檚 courses in political ecology, critical development studies, urban geography, postcolonial theory, and methods within the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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