Matthew Lorenzen- Doctor of Philosophy
- Visiting Professor at Metropolitan Autonomous University
Matthew Lorenzen
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Visiting Professor at Metropolitan Autonomous University
Visiting professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa, mjlorenzen@izt.uam.mx
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Matthew Lorenzen has a Ph.D in Sociology from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2017 he carried out a postdoctoral research stay at the University of Southern California. From 2018 to mid 2023 he worked as an associate researcher at the Institute of Geography (Unidad Oaxaca) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He is currently a visiting professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa (UAM-I). He specializes in rural studies and migration studies.
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En los estudios sobre ritualidad y temporalidades mayas pasadas y presentes, persiste el análisis desde perspectivas disciplinares. En los últimos años, en consonancia con los movimientos de reivindicación cultural maya en Guatemala, han surgido una serie de demandas y propuestas para realizar co-investigaciones y estudios en los que la documentaci...
Se aborda la relevancia de los conceptos de la arquitectura de remesas, el deterioro rural y la transición forestal en nueve municipios del estado de Oaxaca que conforman el Geoparque Mundial UNESCO Mixteca Alta
The literature on the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that the impacts on women were particularly harsh, as lockdowns increased their household workloads and devastated female-dominated occupations. However, little has been published on the construction of livelihood strategies to offset the impacts of the pandemic. Analysis of the...
This paper starts by offering a general perspective on participatory epistemologies and methodologies developed in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century. In this context, we position the assembly as a space for the construction and implementation of participatory methodologies to build knowledge focused on territorial care....
In recent decades, rural livelihoods across the global South have increasingly turned away from farming. This process of “deagrarianization” is frequently seen as a uniform reaction to pervasive institutional and economic pressures against small-scale farming. Evidence at local scales, however, shows that households tend to adjust heterogeneously t...
Elinor Ostrom demonstrated the inadequacy of the “tragedy of the commons” thesis, according to which natural resources are depleted in common-property systems because individuals have few incentives to limit their consumption, leading to the idea that privatization or government intervention are needed. Ostrom showed that the tragedy of the commons...
El análisis de los cambios en la cobertura y el uso de suelo representa una cuestión central para la geografía aplicada. En México, aunque la deforestación predomine a nivel nacional, convive con procesos regionales de recuperación de la superficie de bosque –la llamada transición forestal. A pesar de la existencia de una amplia literatura sobre la...
This paper analyzes differential trends in rural depopulation and repopulation in nine municipalities of Mexico's Mixteca Alta region, in the southern state of Oaxaca, based on census data and interviews carried out in 2019. From 1950 to 2000, the study area experienced a substantial loss of population, linked essentially to out‐migration to Mexico...
Este artículo analiza los rasgos de una nueva ruralidad en nueve municipios de la Mixteca Alta, México, con énfasis en la migración. Después de que en la segunda mitad del siglo xx se dio un intenso despoblamiento en dichos municipios, ligado sobre todo a la migración rural-urbana, se observa una reciente estabilización poblacional, lo que contradi...
The phenomenon of displacement has been at the centre of fierce debates in the literature on urban gentrification. On one side, a group of authors has argued that residential displacement is not always a key component of gentrification. On the other side, another group of researchers has defended the centrality of gentrification-induced displacemen...
The notion of windows of opportunity, developed in the literature on adaptive governance, refers to the existence of circumstances or events that trigger and promote governance changes to manage ecosystems and common-pool resources more sustainably. Research has largely focused on windows of opportunity such as natural disasters and environmental c...
In this introduction, we synthesize a theoretical framework that encompasses the findings and arguments made by the contributors to this issue. This framework provides readers a logic for analyzing violence with a critical lens, along with a counterhegemonic narrative on violence’s root causes. We start by recapitulating Marxist perspectives on vio...
The forest transition is a concept used to describe and explain the transition from a dwindling to an expanding forest area in a given region or country. Three main explanations of the forest transition have been developed. The first is the “economic development path to the forest transition”, which contends that economic development and new agricu...
Resumen El lamentable caso de Ayotzinapa nos pone frente al espejo para cuestionar los logros alcanzados por las autoridades e instituciones mexicanas en materia de seguridad, justicia, democracia, participación política, educación, trabajo, economía y desarrollo social. En 1917 se promulgó la Constitución, que en ese momento fue pionera en la prot...
Entre 2008 y 2010, Tijuana vivió una ola de violencia sin precedentes en la historia reciente de esta ciudad fronteriza. Este artículo analiza los impactos de esa ola de violencia y de la economía criminal de Tijuana, enfocándose en el espacio social y el mercado inmobiliario de la ciudad. Además, se busca identificar a posibles “ganadores”, en tér...
A growing body of literature has argued that the distinction between forced and voluntary migration can be, in practice, unclear. This literature points out that each individual migrant may have mixed motives for migrating, including both forced and voluntary reasons. Few studies, however, have actually set out to analyze mixed-motive migration.
T...
A growing body of literature has argued that the distinction between forced and voluntary migration can be, in practice, unclear. This literature points out that each individual migrant may have mixed motives for migrating, including both forced and voluntary reasons. Few studies, however, have actually set out to analyze mixed-motive migration.
Th...
Dans cet article nous révisons le défi du multiculturalisme et de la diversité culturelle dans le contexte latino-américain, analysant le cas concret de la Colombie. Nous tentons de lier la notion de diversité culturelle à l’idée de mémoire. La Constitution colombienne adoptée en 1991 a cherché à faire le pont entre ces deux concepts ; toutefois, n...
Cette thèse analyse les causes et les impacts de l'urbanisation et de la gentrification rurale dans trois municipalités de l'état de Morelos, au Mexique, ainsi que les stratégies de reproduction que mobilisent les habitants originaires dans ce contexte, Nous examinons deux types de causes de l'urbanisation et de la gentrification rurale, ceux qui,...
Este artículo se basa en una investigación efectuada en tres municipios del estado de Morelos, México, donde se llevaron a cabo entrevistas semiestructuradas a productores agrícolas y a habitantes rurales. Se aborda la hipótesis de que procesos de gentrificación rural puedan fomentar la persistencia de la población originaria y de las actividades a...
