Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) (2022-2024).
Project: "Ixchel: Building understanding of the physical, cultural and socio-economic drivers of risk for strengthening resilience in the Guatemalan cordillera". School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh.
The objective of the project is to investigate multi-hazards associated with mass flows, namely landslides, debris flows and volcanic pyroclastic flows, that occur in the Guatemalan cordillera. The project seeks to explicitly connect Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) with broader decolonizing processes and practices. My specific role engages in ethnographic, participatory and qualitative fieldwork in Guatemala as a critical geographer and decolonial scholar. Funded by UKRI/GCRF (UK).
Profile: https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/ana-cabrera-pacheco
Previous academic position:
Postdoctoral Researcher [Estancia Posdoctoral] (2020-2021).
Own project: “From the Maya Solar: Food Sovereignty in Biocultural Territories in the Peninsula of Yucatán” ["Desde el solar maya: Soberanía alimentaria en los territorios bioculturales de la Península de Yucatán"].
The objective of my project was to analyse the importance of the Maya Solar as a resilient way of living towards food sovereignty of Indigenous families in the biocultural territories in the Peninsula of Yucatán. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Ecosur), Departamento de Sociedad y Cultura, Grupo Procesos Culturales y Construcción Social de Alternativas. Funded by Conacyt (México).
Publications from this work:
Cabrera Pacheco, A.J. (2022). Construyendo territorios bioculturales desde el solar familiar en la Península de Yucatán, México. En D. Morales, L. Sariego, & T. Teixeira (Eds.), Territorios y desarrollo: Teorías, debates y casos desde América Latina (pp. 136-161). Universidad de Costa Rica, Vicerrectoría de Investigación, CICAP. [Open access].
Cabrera Pacheco, A.J. (2022). La (re)producción de las tradiciones agroalimentarias en los solares mayas de la Península de Yucatán, México. Estudios Sociales. Revista de Alimentación Contemporánea y Desarrollo Regional. 32(60). https://doi.org/10.24836/es.v32i60.1263
Publications and fieldwork photographs available in: https://elsolarmayayucateco.wordpress.com/
Research interests:
Environmental and Social Sustainability, Human and Critical Geography, Indigenous studies, Feminist geographies, Decolonial perspectives, Social and Environmental Justice.
Education and qualifications:
PhD in Geography (2016), School of Geography – University of Leeds, UK.
Master in Sciences, focus in Environment and Resources Management (2010), ITT – Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Maestría en Ciencias Ambientales [Master in Environmental Sciences] (2010), PMPCA – Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
Licenciatura en Arquitectura [Licentiate in Architecture] (2007), Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseño – Universidad Marista de Mérida, Mexico.
Diplomado de Especialista en Gestión Ambiental Urbana [Specialist Diploma in Environmental Urban Management] (2011), Fondo Verde and Instituto Latinoamericano de Ciencias, Peru.
Academic publications:
Cabrera Pacheco, A.J. (2023 [Online 2021]). Ch’ixinakax utxiwa on practices and discourses of decolonization, Book Review, Gender, Place & Culture 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2021.2000581 [Free access here].
Urban ECA Collective et al. (2022). Redefining the role of urban studies Early Career Academics in the post-COVID-19 university. City 26 (4), 562-586, https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2022.2091826 [Open access].
Cabrera Pacheco, A.J. (2017). Primitive Accumulation in Indigenous Mexico: The Contested Transformations of the Maya Solar of Yucatán. City. 21 (3-4), 503-519. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2017.1335476
Cabrera Pacheco, A.J. (2014). Estrategias de sustentabilidad en el solar maya Yucateco en Mérida, México [Sustainability strategies within the Yucatec Maya solar in Merida, Mexico]. GeoGraphos, 56, 1-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/GEOGRA2014.5.56
Cabrera Pacheco, A.J. (co-author of 15 sections of the report) (2012). Indicadores de Desarrollo, Zona Metropolitana de Mérida – Reporte 2012 [Development Indicators of the Metropolitan Area of Merida]. Mérida: Cinvestav – Unidad Mérida. Available online: http://acervo.yucatan.gob.mx/contenidos/IndicadoresdeDesarrolloZonaMetropolitanadeMeridaReporte2012.pdf
Cabrera Pacheco, A.J., J. Hamhaber, and M. Ayllón Trujillo. (2010). Wastewater Management Alternatives in Refugee Camps. Ingeniería. Revista Académica de la Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, 14 (2), 121-125.
Other publications:
Cabrera Pacheco, A.J. (22/02/2021). Territorios sustentables: El solar maya como modo de vida. Revista Landuum [Available in: https://www.landuum.com/historia-y-cultura/territorios-sustentables-el-solar-maya-como-modo-de-vida/].
Cabrera Pacheco, A.J. (06/2020). Where the Maya People Live: Land Management in Yucatán, Mexico. [Blog post]. Voices from Developing Countries. [Available in: https://ourvoicesourworld.home.blog/2020/06/01/where-the-maya-people-live-land-management-in-yucatan-mexico/]. Reposted by The Sociological Review. [Available in: https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/june-2020/activism/where-the-maya-people-live-land-management-in-yucat%C3%A1n-mexico/].
Cabrera Pacheco, A.J. (2014). Las transformaciones del solar maya en Yucatán y los retrocesos en la producción urbana sustentable en México [The transformations of the Maya Solar in Yucatan and the setbacks in sustainable urban production in Mexico]. IV Simposio Becarios CONACyT Europa. Available in: http://www.mufm.fr/sites/mufm.univ-toulouse.fr/files/ana_julia_cabrera_pacheco.pdf [Conference paper].
Cabrera Pacheco, A.J. (2012). Los cambios del solar maya en el Yucatán contemporáneo [The changes of the Maya solar in the contemporary Yucatán]. II Simposio de Becarios y ex-Becarios del CONACyT en Europa. Available in: http://www.mufm.fr/sites/mufm.univ-toulouse.fr/files/evenement/symposium/ponencias/ana_julia_cabrera_pacheco.pdf [Conference paper].