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Current situation

PhD candidate in Geography

Subject: “Land rights and citizenship regimes in rural Mexico: territorial reconfigurations in a neoliberal context”.

Research supervisors: Alain Musset and Éric Léonard (2019-2022) ; Gilles Bataillon and Éric Léonard (since 2022).

University : School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

2024. « The Institutionalization of Urban Agriculture in Quito: Towards the Formalization of a “Right to the City”? An Analisis of Discursive, Normative Framework, and Local Practices », Territoires en mouvement. Revue de géographie et d’aménagement. URL : https://journals.openedition.org/tem/11475. (in french)

2021. « Local appropriation of Indigenous Discourse: Strategies of Opposition and Territorial Innovations in the Land Conflict of Chocholá (Mexico) », Belgeo : Revue belge de géographie, n°2. URL : https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/48749. (in french)

Articles Published on Educational and Public Knowledge Platforms

2025. “Land Commons in Conflict in Mexico: Ejidos in the Globalized Economy,” Geoconfluences, ENS Lyon. URL : https://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/informations-scientifiques/dossiers-regionaux/amerique-latine/articles-scientifiques/communs-ejidos. (in french)

2021. « Northwest Yucatán in Mexico: Integration into the Globalized Economy and Local Fragmentation of a Region in Transformation », Geoimage, Geoimage, CNES (French National Centre for Space Studies), MENJS. URL : https://geoimage.cnes.fr/fr/geoimage/mexique-le-nord-ouest-du-yucatan-integration-dans-leconomie-mondialisee-et-fragmentation. (in french/spanish)

Research Report

2024. Commons in Conflict in Mexico: Reconfigurations of Rural Spatial Resources and Their Governance in a Neoliberal Context, Research Collection, Paris, Technical Committee “Research & Development”, AFD (French Development Agency), MEAE (inistry for Europe and Foreign Affairs), 109 pages. URL: https://hal.science/hal-04808527. (in french)

Congresses, conferences and Symposia

2025. “The Judicialization of Agrarian Conflicts in Yucatán: Commons Put to the Test of the Law”, Symposium “Access to Environmental Justice in Land-Use Change Conflicts: A Dialogue Between History and Law,” European Council of Social Research on Latin America (CEISAL), “Social, Environmental and Climate Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean,” IHEAL, IdA, Paris, June 2, 2025.

2024. “Commons in Conflict: Challenges Facing Mexico’s Rural Areas in a Globalized World”, 35th International Festival of Geography, theme “Lands,” Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, October 4, 2024.

2024. “Struggles for Land and the Construction of Agrarian Rights in the First Half of the 20th Century: Legal Strategies, Materiality of Place, and Conflicts in an Oaxacan Ejido (Mexico)”, Symposium “Uncommon Properties: Customs, Social Practices and Institutional Bricolage in the Grassroots Construction of Land Rights,” Latin American Rural History Association Conference, “Challenges for Latin America’s Rural History,” CIESAS, COLMEX, CEH, Mexico City, June 2024.

2024. “Peasant Trajectories and the Legal Construction of Territory: The Role of Oral Histories in the Geo-Historical Research of a Conflictual Ejido (Mexico, 20th Century)”, 10th Latin American Oral History Meeting, UNAM, RALAHO, AMHO, INAH, Mexico City, June 2024.

2023. With Boughedada, T., Rodrigues, C., and Tyrou, E., “Doing Fieldwork in the Field of Land Studies: Sharing Experiences and Resources”, International Doctoral Workshop “Critical Perspectives on Development,” UMR 8504 Géographie-cités, UMR 8586 PRODIG, UMR 201 DEVSOC, UMR 7227 CREDA, EA 7338 Pléiade, UMR 7234 CEPN, EA 4403 UTRPP, UMI Source, Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers), October 20, 2023.

2021. “The Former Sisal Region Thirty Years After Mexico’s Neoliberal Turn: Antagonistic Institutional Dynamics in a Context of Plural Land Governance”, Conference “The Rural Moment: Ruralities in Transition,” UMR 5194 PACTE / LMI MEDITER, Université Grenoble Alpes, Mirabel, September 16–17, 2021.

2021. “The Mexican Ejido Institution: Decline or Renewal? Socio-Spatial and Institutional Dynamics of a Yucatecan Ejido”, Jornadas de los Jóvenes Americanistas, “Commons from Latin America: Meanings, Relationships and Transformations from the Pre-Hispanic Period to the 21st Century,” IFEA / CEMCA / Casa de Velázquez, Madrid/Cusco, July 5–7, 2021.

2021. “Conflicts and Socio-Territorial Innovations in Rural Mexico: Toward a Relational Approach to Conflictual Situations”, Conference “Territories and Development Trajectories: Relational Dynamics as a Key to Renewed Analysis,” UMR 6590 ESO, Université d’Angers, June 16–17, 2021.

2021. “Rural Governance Put to the Test by Conflict: The Case of the Chocholá Land Dispute, Mexico”, Study Day “Conflict(s) in the Social Sciences and Humanities” organized by the Early Career Researchers of UMR TELEMMe, Aix-Marseille Université, May 12, 2021.

2018. “Reflexive Practice as a Condition for ‘Useful’ Development Research? Reflections from the Journey of a Junior Researcher”, Study Day “Researcher Engagement in the Social Sciences Facing Development,” Master’s Program in Comparative Development Studies, EHESS, Paris, June 18, 2018.

Seminars

2025. “Tracing Land Tenure: A Spatial Approach to Institutional Change Through a Micro-Local Conflict (Mexico, 1918–1947)”, SENS Seminar, UMR 268 SENS, June 24, 2025.

2021. “Conflicts and the Making of Rural Space in Mexico: Questioning Geo-Legal Trajectories in Light of the Historical Relationship with the State”, Seminar “Pluridisciplinary Dialogues,” UMIFRE 16 CEMCA, Mexico City, December 17, 2021.

2021. “Conflict Frontiers and Frontier Conflicts: The Contributions of the Frontier Notion to the Study of Territorial Disputes in Mexico”, International Intensive Course, LMI MESO “Border Relations in Mesoamerica: Historical Dynamics and New Analytical Challenges in the Study of Social Processes,” IRD / CIESAS / UNA / UCR, online, October 13, 2021.

2021. “Understanding Rural Dynamics Through Land Conflicts: Reflections from Mexicanist Research”, Seminar “Studying Ruralities at Géographie-cités,” UMR 8504 Géographie-cités, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, February 15, 2021.

2020. “From Regional Development Policies to Ethno-Territorial Claims: Unpacking the Inner Workings of the Chocholá Land Conflict (Mexico)”, Seminar “Public Policies, Development and Globalization in the Global South: Research Paths and Methodological Approaches,” EHESS, Paris, March 17, 2020.

Academic Activities

2024. Co-organizer of the 3rd edition of the International Doctoral Conference “Critical Perspectives on Development”, scheduled for November 20–22, 2024, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France. Theme: Conflicts and Development: Cross-Perspectives and Critical Analysis.

2023. Co-organizer of the 2nd edition of the International Doctoral Conference “Critical Perspectives on Development”, held October 18–20, 2023, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France. Theme: Resilience.

2022. Co-organizer of the 1st edition of the International Doctoral Conference “Critical Perspectives on Development”, held November 3–4, 2022, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France.

Editorial Review Activities (in French and Spanish)

Journal Articles

2025. Revue interdisciplinaire en études du développement (RIED), IEDES, Paris.

2024. Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México, UNAM, Mexico City.

Book Manuscripts

2021. Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (CEPHCIS/UNAM), Mérida

Research stays

2021-2022 – Visiting doctoral student at the French Center for Mexican and Central American Studies in Mexico City (MEAE-CNRS-USR 3337)

Fieldworks

2021-2022 – One-year investigation in Mexico (Mexico City, Oaxaca and Yucatán)
2018 – Five-month investigation in Mexico (Yucatán)
2017 – Three-month investigation in Ecuador (Quito)

Since 2019

PhD candidate in Geography at School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences of Paris (École des hautes études en sciences sociales – EHESS)

Research subject: “Land rights and citizenship regimes in rural Mexico: territorial reconfigurations in a neoliberal context”, under the supervision of Alain Musset (EHESS) and Éric Léonard (IRD)

2017-2019

Research Master degree in Social Sciences, Territories and Development, EHESS, with honors

Master’s thesis “The Chocholá Land Conflict (Yucatán, Mexico). From Territorial Development Policies to Ethnic Claims: an Analisis of Spatial Justice”, under the supervision of Alain Musset (EHESS)

2015-2017

Research Master degree in Geography and Urban Planning, University of Orléans, with honors

Master’s thesis: “The Institutionalization of Urban Agriculture, a Tool for the Right to the City? The Case of the AGRUPAR Program in the Metropolitan District of Quito (Ecuador) », under the supervision of Denis Chartier (University of Orleans)

2014

Bachelor’s degree in geography, University of Burgundy, with honors

2022 – Doctoral research scolarship from the Institut des Amériques, IdA
2021 – Short-term fieldwork scholarship from the French Center for Mexican and Central American Studies, CEMCA (MEAE-CNRS-USR 3337)
2021 – Mobility scholarship from the international policy unit of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
2020 – Scholarship from the Technical Committee on Land Tenure and Development, from the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) in the framework of the “Support Project for the Development of Land Tenure Policies – CTFD III”
2019 – Three-years doctoral contract funded by the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences of Paris