Inés Durán Matute D. in Social Sciences from the University of Sydney (Australia) and has completed postdoctoral fellowships in Mexico, the United States and Germany. She is currently a researcher at ciesas (Western headquarters) and belongs to the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (Germany). From a militant stance, he investigates the gears of authoritarianism, capitalism and socio-ecological collapse and the prospects for anti-capitalist struggles and social change. His publications include the following: Indigenous peoples and the geographies of power. Mezcala narratives on neoliberal governance. Mexico: Century xxi, 2019; with Rocío Moreno. The struggle for life in the face of megaprojects in Mexico. Guadalajara: Cátedra Jorge Alonso, 2021; and as co-editor Beyond Molotovs. A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2024.

Entrevistas

Learning through struggles: "Doc Alonso's" journey

Interview with
  • Jorge Alonso Sánchez

  • Inés Durán Matute

Jorge Alonso o el "Doc Alonso" es un investigador comprometido con los movimientos sociales y las luchas anticapitalistas, destacado por su trabajo con comunidades.

Reseñas críticas

Incarnate territories. Extractivism, communalism and gender in the P'urhépecha plateau

Veronica Velazquez, 2019 Jorge Alonso Chair, Guadalajara, 293 pp.

Challenging neoliberal territorialities: disputed lives, bodies and land

  • Inés Durán Matute

From a look inspired by anthropology, critical geography and feminism, it shows us how capitalism has affected the daily lives of P'urhépecha women in Zirosto and Cherán (Michoacán) by favoring violence and accentuating the precariousness of bodies, lives and land.