Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
Biographic Data
| ID | 137634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matilde Córdoba Azcárate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matilde Córdoba |
| FAMILY NAME | Azcárate |
| SIGNATURE | AZCÁRATE M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Communication Department, University of California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3680-8717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rethinking Tourism Reform: Territorial Politics and Maya Alternatives to Capitalist Recovery in Southern Mexico
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the fragility of tourism-dependent economies and intensified calls for sustainable transformations. This paper examines state-led post-pandemic tourism reforms in Mexico’s Fourth Transformation, particularly around the Maya Train project in the Yucatán Peninsula. Drawing on critical approaches to reformism and J.K. Gibson-Graham’s diverse economies framework, we discuss Mexico’s post-pandemic tourism initiatives …
Tourism, space, and place: Bridging Past, Present and Future Research
Tourism geopolitics: Routes and Worldings
This article brings into conversation foundational concepts in the sociology, anthropology, and geography of tourism, specifically those of the tourist gaze, tourism performance of place, the hospitality pact, tourist encounters, with the most recent tourism geopolitics. Historically the first four concepts contributed to legitimizing tourism as an object of social scientific research beyond business and economics. They provided important termino…
Author meets critic: A critical and timely exploration of Yucatán's predatory and sticky tourism
Opening Editorial
Our generation of editors faces a shared set of critical challenges (ESTS Edi
Fronteras desarticuladas
Tramo de la frontera México-Estados Unidos en Imperial Valley, California, 2021 Fuente: Foto hecha por la autora Si miro atrás pensando en mi trabajo muchas veces veo fronteras. Todo tipo de fronteras: geográficas, lingüísticas, culturales, naturales. Fronteras que ya no son y otras que son completamente nuevas. Fronteras bien reales, de muerte y sufrimiento, de bloqueo. Y también fronteras imaginadas, auto-impuestas, enunciadas primero para pode…
The Critical as an Intellectual Space
Cuba Otherwise and the Power of Spatial Representation
Enclosures within Enclosures and Hurricane Reconstruction in Cancún, Mexico
This article focuses on the reconstruction processes undertaken in Cancún, Mexico after hurricanes Gilbert in 1988 and Wilma in 2005. The article argues that both hurricanes facilitated the creation of an evolving logic of "enclosures within enclosures," whereby hotel and real estate investors, aided by government authorities, privatized and commoditized Cancún's public lands and resources for the exclusive use of the global tourism market. In pr…
Biopolítica y Reservas de la Biosfera: Espacios de (in) movilidad y conflicto. Una mirada etnográfica
This paper uses the concept of sites of contentious (im)mobility to highlight the centrality of mobility for bio-politics. The article draws ethnographic evidence from the study of conservation and ecotourism practices in the Biosphere Reserve of Ría Celestún (Yucatán, México). Through the ethnographic attention to two disputes, the article shows how the biopolitical project associated to the conservation of biodiversity and the development of na…
Thanks God, this is not Cancun!’ Alternative tourism imaginaries in Yucatan (Mexico)
This paper analyses the role of tourism imaginaries as generative social practices in the production of places as tourist places. This will be accomplished through an ethnographical analysis detailing the production of two distinct alternative tourist imaginaries in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico). Firstly, this paper will explore how the ecotourist imaginary of a ‘pristine natural resort’ is performed at the Biosphere Reserve Ria Celestun through…
Contentious Hotspots: Ecotourism and the Restructuring of Place at the Biosphere Reserve Ria Celestun (Yucatan, Mexico)
Tourism mobilities, conservation, and development planning are central social processes in the restructuring of places. This paper will argue that this is especially manifest in Biosphere Reserves where global agendas are spatially articulated through the creation of ‘contentious hotspots’ or ‘heated spots’, that is, sites within the local in which global mobilities are condensed and constantly at play through the performance of disruptive practi…
Enclosures within Enclosures and Hurricane Reconstruction in Cancún, Mexico
This article focuses on the reconstruction processes undertaken in Cancún, Mexico after hurricanes Gilbert in 1988 and Wilma in 2005. The article argues that both hurricanes facilitated the creation of an evolving logic of "enclosures within enclosures," whereby hotel and real estate investors, aided by government authorities, privatized and commoditized Cancún's public lands and resources for the exclusive use of the global tourism market. In pr…
Tourism, space, and place: Bridging Past, Present and Future Research
Tourism geopolitics: Routes and Worldings
This article brings into conversation foundational concepts in the sociology, anthropology, and geography of tourism, specifically those of the tourist gaze, tourism performance of place, the hospitality pact, tourist encounters, with the most recent tourism geopolitics. Historically the first four concepts contributed to legitimizing tourism as an object of social scientific research beyond business and economics. They provided important termino…
Thanks God, this is not Cancun!’ Alternative tourism imaginaries in Yucatan (Mexico)
This paper analyses the role of tourism imaginaries as generative social practices in the production of places as tourist places. This will be accomplished through an ethnographical analysis detailing the production of two distinct alternative tourist imaginaries in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico). Firstly, this paper will explore how the ecotourist imaginary of a ‘pristine natural resort’ is performed at the Biosphere Reserve Ria Celestun through…
Contentious Hotspots: Ecotourism and the Restructuring of Place at the Biosphere Reserve Ria Celestun (Yucatan, Mexico)
Tourism mobilities, conservation, and development planning are central social processes in the restructuring of places. This paper will argue that this is especially manifest in Biosphere Reserves where global agendas are spatially articulated through the creation of ‘contentious hotspots’ or ‘heated spots’, that is, sites within the local in which global mobilities are condensed and constantly at play through the performance of disruptive practi…
Cuba Otherwise and the Power of Spatial Representation
Contentious Hotspots: Ecotourism and the Restructuring of Place at the Biosphere Reserve Ria Celestun (Yucatan, Mexico)
Tourism mobilities, conservation, and development planning are central social processes in the restructuring of places. This paper will argue that this is especially manifest in Biosphere Reserves where global agendas are spatially articulated through the creation of ‘contentious hotspots’ or ‘heated spots’, that is, sites within the local in which global mobilities are condensed and constantly at play through the performance of disruptive practi…
Thanks God, this is not Cancun!’ Alternative tourism imaginaries in Yucatan (Mexico)
This paper analyses the role of tourism imaginaries as generative social practices in the production of places as tourist places. This will be accomplished through an ethnographical analysis detailing the production of two distinct alternative tourist imaginaries in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico). Firstly, this paper will explore how the ecotourist imaginary of a ‘pristine natural resort’ is performed at the Biosphere Reserve Ria Celestun through…
Biopolítica y Reservas de la Biosfera: Espacios de (in) movilidad y conflicto. Una mirada etnográfica
This paper uses the concept of sites of contentious (im)mobility to highlight the centrality of mobility for bio-politics. The article draws ethnographic evidence from the study of conservation and ecotourism practices in the Biosphere Reserve of Ría Celestún (Yucatán, México). Through the ethnographic attention to two disputes, the article shows how the biopolitical project associated to the conservation of biodiversity and the development of na…
Enclosures within Enclosures and Hurricane Reconstruction in Cancún, Mexico
This article focuses on the reconstruction processes undertaken in Cancún, Mexico after hurricanes Gilbert in 1988 and Wilma in 2005. The article argues that both hurricanes facilitated the creation of an evolving logic of "enclosures within enclosures," whereby hotel and real estate investors, aided by government authorities, privatized and commoditized Cancún's public lands and resources for the exclusive use of the global tourism market. In pr…
Cuba Otherwise and the Power of Spatial Representation
Fronteras desarticuladas
Tramo de la frontera México-Estados Unidos en Imperial Valley, California, 2021 Fuente: Foto hecha por la autora Si miro atrás pensando en mi trabajo muchas veces veo fronteras. Todo tipo de fronteras: geográficas, lingüísticas, culturales, naturales. Fronteras que ya no son y otras que son completamente nuevas. Fronteras bien reales, de muerte y sufrimiento, de bloqueo. Y también fronteras imaginadas, auto-impuestas, enunciadas primero para pode…
The Critical as an Intellectual Space
Author meets critic: A critical and timely exploration of Yucatán's predatory and sticky tourism
Opening Editorial
Our generation of editors faces a shared set of critical challenges (ESTS Edi
Tourism geopolitics: Routes and Worldings
This article brings into conversation foundational concepts in the sociology, anthropology, and geography of tourism, specifically those of the tourist gaze, tourism performance of place, the hospitality pact, tourist encounters, with the most recent tourism geopolitics. Historically the first four concepts contributed to legitimizing tourism as an object of social scientific research beyond business and economics. They provided important termino…
Tourism, space, and place: Bridging Past, Present and Future Research
Rethinking Tourism Reform: Territorial Politics and Maya Alternatives to Capitalist Recovery in Southern Mexico
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the fragility of tourism-dependent economies and intensified calls for sustainable transformations. This paper examines state-led post-pandemic tourism reforms in Mexico’s Fourth Transformation, particularly around the Maya Train project in the Yucatán Peninsula. Drawing on critical approaches to reformism and J.K. Gibson-Graham’s diverse economies framework, we discuss Mexico’s post-pandemic tourism initiatives …
Tourism (7 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Ecotourism (3 works)