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PhD candidate in Geography

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

Research supervisors: Alain Musset (EHESS, UMR Géographie-cités) and Éric Léonard (IRD, UMR SENS)

Main funding: Doctoral contract of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences of Paris (2019-2022)

Affiliations :

• School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
• Laboratory : UMR 8504 Geographie-Citiés (CNRS-EHESS-Paris 1-U Paris)

Associations :

• UMIFRE 16 CEMCA, French Center for Mexican and Central American Studies (MEAE-CNRS-USR 3337) – One year research stay in Mexico City starting in October 2021
• LMI MESO – Joint international research laboratory of Mobilities, Governance and Resources in the Mesoamerican Basin (IRD-CIESAS-UNA-UCR)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

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

Redouté, K. (2021). « Local appropriation of indigenous discourse: oppositional strategy and territorial innovations in the Chocholá land conflict (Mexico) », Belgeo : Revue belge de géographie, n°2. URL : https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/48749. (article in french)

Science popularization

Redouté, K. (2021). « Mexico – Northwestern Yucatan: integration into the global economy and local fragmentation of a changing region », Geoimage, Centre national d’études spatiales, ministère de l’Éducation nationale de la jeunesse et des sports. URL : https://geoimage.cnes.fr/fr/geoimage/mexique-le-nord-ouest-du-yucatan-integration-dans-leconomie-mondialisee-et-fragmentation. (article in french and spanish)

Conferences and Symposium

Redouté, K. (2024). “The Struggle for Land and the Construction of Agrarian Rights in the First Half of the 20th Century: Legal Strategies, Materiality of Places, and Conflicts in an Oaxacan Ejido (Mexico),” Symposium “Uncommon Properties: Customs, Social Practices, and Institutional Bricolage in the Construction of Land Property Rights from Below,” Latin American Rural History Association Congress, “The Challenges of Rural History in Latin America,” CIESAS, COLMEX, CEH, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2024.

Redouté, K. (2024). “Peasant Trajectories and Institutional Construction of Territory: The Relevance of Oral Sources in the Geo-Historical Research of an Ongoing Conflict (Mexico, 20th Century),” Panel “Peasant Memories,” X Latin American Oral History Meeting, UNAM, RALAHO, AMHO, INAH, Mexico City,  Mexico, June 12, 2024.

Redouté, K. (2021). “The Former Sisal Region at Thirty Years of the Mexican Neoliberal Turn: Antagonistic Institutional Dynamics in a Context of Plural Land Governances,” Conference “The Rural Moment: Ruralities in Transition,” UMR 5194 PACTE/LMI MEDITER, University of Grenoble Alpes, Mirabel, France, September 16-17, 2021.

Redouté, K. (2021). “Conflicts and Socio-Territorial Innovations in Rural Mexico: For a Relational Approach to Conflict Situations,” Conference “Territories and Development Trajectories: Relational Dynamics as a Key to Renewed Analysis,” UMR 6590 ESO, University of Angers, Angers, France, June 16-17, 2021.

Redouté, K. (2021). “The Mexican Ejido Institution: Decline or Rebirth? Socio-Spatial and Institutional Dynamics of a Yucatecan Ejido,” Young Americanists’ Days “Commons from Latin America: Meanings, Relationships, and Transformations from the Pre-Hispanic Period to the 21st Century,” IFEA/CEMCA/Casa de Velázquez, Madrid/Cusco, Spain/Peru July 5-7, 2021.

Redouté, K. (2021). “Rural Governance in the Ordeal of Conflicts: The Example of Chocholá Land Dispute, Mexico,” Symposium “Conflict(s) in Humanities and Social Sciences” of the Young Researchers of the UMR TELEMMe, UMR 7303 TELEMMe, University of Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France, May 12, 2021.

Redouté, K. (2018). “Reflexive Practice as a Condition for ‘Useful’ Research in Development? Questions of a Young Researcher’s Journey,” Symposium “The Researcher’s Engagement in Social Sciences in the Face of Development” of Comparative Development Studies Training, EHESS, Paris, France, June 18, 2018.

Seminars

Redouté, K. (2021). “Conflicts and the Fabric of Rural Mexican Space: Questioning Geo-Juridical Trajectories in Light of Historical Relationships with Public Authorities,” Seminar “Pluridisciplinary Dialogues,” CEMCA, UMIFRE 16, Mexico City, Mexico, December 17, 2021.

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

Redouté, K. (2021). “Understanding Rural Dynamics Through the Study of Land Conflicts: Mexicanist Reflections,” Inter-Team Seminar “Studying Ruralities at Géographie-cités,” UMR 8504 Géographie-cités, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France, February 15, 2021.

Redouté, K. (2020). “From Regional Development Policies to Ethno-Territorial Claims: Studying the ‘Mechanisms’ of a Land Conflict in Mexico,” Seminar “Public Policies, Development, and Globalization in the Global South: Research Paths and Methodological Approaches,” EHESS, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France, March 17, 2020.

Outside the strictly academic framework

Festival

Redouté, K. (2024). “Commons in Conflict in Mexico: The Challenges of Rural Spaces in the Era of Globalization,” International Geography Festival, theme “Lands,” Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, October 2024.

Screening-debate

Invited by Cinéma-Bourse and the Association des Amis du Monde Diplomatique to a debate around the documentary “Los arboles mueren de pie/Les arbres meurent debout” (2021) directed by Ronan Kerneur and Fany Fulchiron, as part of the film festival “Horizon Vert: Ecology and Environment Cinema,” Saint-Junien, Haute Vienne, April 5, 2024. The documentary focuses on the Chéran uprising in Michoacan. It was followed by a discussion on the theme of environmental, social, and political struggles a few months before the presidential elections in Mexico.

Feedback to Field Actors

Redouté, K. (2018). “History of the Lands of Chocholá. From the Encomienda to the Post-Revolutionary Ejido: An Assessment of the Available Historical Documentation (1700-1940),” Municipal Palace of Chocholá (Yucatán, Mexico), December 14, 2018.

Translations of scientific articles from Spanish to French

Vásquez, D. (2020). “Le Honduras dans l’abîme”, Problèmes d’Amérique latine, n°116, pp.89-101.

Evaluations

2020 – Evaluations of two books for the Editorial Committee of the Peninsular Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CEPHCIS) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

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