グローバル生存基盤部門・日本学術振興会特別研究員PD(外国人共同研究者)
Specialty: Political Economy

I was born and raised in the misery belts of Mexico City. Since early years of my life I was aware of social inequalities and disadvantages. In 1994 a double event, the starting of NAFTA and the Zapatista uprising, deeply motivated me to study the Critical of Political Economy. In 1995 I started study economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), which has a large tradition in the formation of political economists. Curiously for this self-introduction, the Faculty’s auditorium is named Ho Chi Minh. To work as a critical political economist in Mexico, during the blooming of neoliberalism (1994-2012), was nearly impossible. My academic and professional activity was mostly related to the small and medium enterprise development and to the study of regional innovation systems. In 2012, via MEXT scholarship, I came to Japan as MBA student, and in 2014 I entered the East Asia Economic Development Program at the Graduate School of Economics of Kyoto University. Since then, my research focus has been the Political Economy of Food and Agriculture, particularly the study on Consumption of Corporate Packaged Food in urban poor neighborhoods. My doctoral research was based on Manila’s slum areas: Payatas, Tatalon, and the Dakota squatter in Malate. My current project at CSEAS is to compare the effects of packaged food consumption in Manila and Mexico City. The goal is to theorize the relation between corporate power and food deskilling. It includes how large multinationals strategically penetrated urban bottom neighborhoods, the importance of these cities for the current corporate food regime, and the societal impact of CPF in cooking skills and eating habits.