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Matilde Córdoba Azcárate

Matilde Córdoba Azcárate

· Associate Professor

University of California, San Diego · Communication

Active 2000–2025

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About

Matilde Córdoba Azcárate is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She co-directs the Nature, Space and Politics Faculty and Graduate Group as well as the Design Lab's Just Transitions Initiative. Additionally, she holds affiliate faculty positions in several interdisciplinary programs including The Urban Studies and Planning Department, The Global South Studies, The Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, The Chicano/a Latino/a Arts and Humanities Program, the International Institute, and the Climate Action Lab. Her research focuses on the relations between the production of space and late capitalism, with a particular interest in how ordinary people understand the material, symbolic, and environmental transformations caused by economic and ecological crises. Her published research primarily examines tourism development and its connections to capitalist logics of accumulation by dispossession, land enclosure, and ecological neglect. Concurrently, her ongoing research investigates mega-infrastructure development within the contexts of redistributive politics, renewable energy reform, and corporate urban growth. Currently, she is engaged in historical and ethnographic research to explore the relationships between mega-infrastructure projects, emancipatory politics, and the imagination of the future amid anthropogenic climate change. From 2022 to 2025, she serves as one of the editors of Cultural…

Research topics

  • Geography
  • Archaeology
  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Business
  • Communication
  • Art
  • Economic geography
  • Aesthetics

Selected publications

Frequent coauthors

  • Idalina Baptista

    2 shared

  • Fernando Domínguez Rubio

    2 shared

  • Ana García de Fuentes

    Instituto Politécnico Nacional

    2 shared

  • Juan Córdoba y Ordóñez

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    2 shared

  • Ma Esther Ayala Arcipreste

    1 shared

  • Sarah Buck Kachaluba

    1 shared

  • Alberto Corsín Jiménez

    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

    1 shared

  • Gabrielle Vail

    1 shared

Awards & honors

  • The Fulbright Postdoctoral Program (2010-12)
  • The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Universit…
  • The National Plan for Research and Development, Ministry of…
  • UC San Diego's Non-Senate Faculty Development Awards (2015;…

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