Very happy to see this publication out in the world at Antipode after a few years in the making. It is titled 'The Infrastructures of Internal Colonialism: State, Environment, and Race in Lerma, Mexico' and its open access!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12918

The article explores the relations between infrastructures, labour, and internal colonialism in Lerma, Mexico, and argues that infrastructures are productive of the racial, environmental, and political relations that constitute internal colonialism.

Very happy to join the Editorial Board of The Sociological Review for a five-year period. I am looking forward to contributing to the fantastic work that The Sociological Review does through its publications and support for ECRs. #sociology #socialscience

https://thesociologicalreview.org/announcements/news/the-sociological-review-welcomes-15-new-editorial-board-members/

Just landed in #Mexico City, waiting for my bus to Puebla and then straight to #4SESOCITE22, where I'll be presenting a paper on how engineers at SACMEX, the Mexico City water utility, deal with that which they do not, and often cannot, know when managing water flows, excesses, blockages and absences.

Looking forward to our panel with @deanchahim @theodorajewell, Andrea Ballestero and Andrew Lakoff and to seeing colleagues and friends!

Seems that the convention here is to give an intro, so here I go.

I'm Alejandro, a #sociologist by training who works on the intersection of #sociology and #humangeography. I research how urban #infrastructures, and the labour that keeps them going, shape social, political and economic life, linking everyday contentions and practices to historical socio-environmental processes. I focus on my hometown of #mexicocity and I'm interested in Latin American cities more broadly.