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Dear AnthroMob members, After an extended summer break our beloved MoMO lecture is finally back wit= h a juicy transatlantic session!

We warmly want to invite you to our 4th MoMO lecture (Moving Mobilities Onl= ine), featuring Dr Matilde C=F3rdoba Azc=E1rate, Associate Professor, De= partment of Communication, University of California, San Diego, USA. Participation is free of charge and open to all members of the network, via= prior registration (numbers are limited to 300 participants). SAVE THE DATE!! Thursday 2 December at 6 PM (CET) "Un-commoning Extractive Entrapments: Train Maya and Mobility sovereignty = in Yucat=E1n, Mexico" Come and join us by registering here: https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/meeting/reg= ister/tJIpc-qprjovH9cc1OwDWwYeq9OnmQxzu4A8

Dr. Matilde C=F3rdoba Azc=E1rate is Assistant Professor, Communication, UC,= San Diego. She earned her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the Unive= rsidad Complutense de Madrid (2007). Prior to joining the Communication Dep= artment as a faculty member, she has worked as an Assistant Professor, Anth= ropology Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (2007-2013); a= Fulbright Post-doctoral Fellow at the Earth and Environmental Sciences Pro= gram and The Center for Place, Culture and Politics at The Graduate Center,= City University of New York (CUNY) (2010-2012); and more recently, as a Le= cturer at the Department of Communication and a Research Fellow at The Cent= er for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego (2013-2016= ). She is the author of the monograph Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and La= bor in Contemporary Yucatan. University of California Press, 2020. Her extensive resear= ch in Yucatan examines processes of spatial enclosure, the politics of heri= tage, tourism (im)mobilities, and the contested nature of hegemonic and alt= ernative tourism imaginaries. Short abstract: "Un-commoning Extractive Entrapments: Train Maya and Mobil= ity sovereignty in Yucat=E1n, Mexico" In this talk I follow the transnational networks of knowledge production, f= inancial capital, heritage restoration and Indigenous social activism that = have emerged in and around Train Maya, the latest tourist mega-infrastructu= re development planned by the Mexican state to attract yet more tourism to = its southern region. As I will show, Train Maya's redistributive claims nee= d to be understood within a historical lens that considers un-commoning the= production and generative character of a knowledge geography of and about = the Maya region. This is an extractive geography predicated upon well-estab= lished yet contested economic and intellectual networks of U.S. and Mexican= archeologists, anthropologists, corporate capital, the military and region= al elites. The talk offers a critical lens that whilst denouncing the new a= buses of the industry also seeks to find viable alternatives for transforma= tion away from extractivist futures. I do so by engaging with the refusals,= demands for epistemic disobedience and mobility sovereignty articulated in= Indigenous solidarity tourism initiatives, regional research and digital a= rt and activism in the state of Yucat=E1n. See you soon online!

Team ANTHROMOB

Silvia Wojczewski (U. Lausanne) Anna Lisa Ramella (U. Cologne) Fabiola Mancinelli (U. Barcelona)

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