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I am a cultural geographer specialising in museum cultures, decolonial thought, and resource extraction. My research interests centre around the roles that science, technology, and public art play in enhancing our understanding of climate change and environmental degradation.
- More about Dr Reyes
I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Regional Futures project, an ERC-funded initiative that delves into the territorial politics of digitalisation-as-urbanisation. I recently completed a PhD in human geography at Queen Mary University of London with a project looking at the representations of the Anthropocene within contemporary museum spaces.
Before completing my PhD, I earned an MSc from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc in Biology from the University of Guadalajara. I have previously collaborated with universities, museums, and research institutions in Mexico, Brazil, and the UK, focusing on environmental education, public engagement with science, and Indigenous knowledges and worldviews.
- Publications
- Reyes-Carranza, M. (2023). Racial geographies of the Anthropocene: Memory and erasure in Rio de Janeiro. Politics, 43(2), 250 266
- Reyes-Carranza, M. (2022). Black Place-making and Epistemic Decolonisation in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro’s Pequena África. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal 6 (4-6), pp.250-266
- Reyes-Carranza, M. (2021). The End of Worlding: Indigenous Cosmovisions in the Anthropocene, in E. Harper & D. Specht (Eds.) Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene, Routledge’s Environmental Humanities Series. (pp. 58-75)
- Research Interests
My research interests lie at the intersection of science, technology, and the environment. My earlier research has encompassed a range of topics, such as cultural representations of the Anthropocene, the racial dimensions of ecological harm, and strategies for anti-colonial knowledge production and dissemination.
My current research centres on unravelling the intricate interplay between informational infrastructures, urban planning, and digitalisation. I specifically delve into the mechanisms through which informational infrastructures become territorialised, as well as the ways in which digitalisation captures new territories for expansion. I am also interested in the extractive dimensions of regional planning and urbanisation. This includes discussing the materiality of information and communications technology (ICT) and the environmental and geopolitical impacts linked with digital infrastructure.
- Impact
I am committed to fostering collaborative partnerships with groups and organisations beyond academia. Previously, I have shared my research with museums, cultural centres, and other entities engaged in environmental education, journalism, and cultural endeavours.
Within the framework of the Regional Futures project, I engage with a range of actors to examine the multifaceted aspects and consequences of digitalisation within urban planning. The outcomes of this project will be presented to governmental bodies, non-governmental organisations, and the media.
Another research project, in collaboration with Dr Anthony Faramelli from Goldsmiths University, is the Refugee Cartographies project, which sets out to map the social networks and group dynamics of London’s Latin American communities, specifically the refugees who came to London from Latin American countries in the 1970s and ‘80s. The intended outcome of this project is a map that traces the everyday lives of individuals who fled political violence. Through this mapping, we aim to visually demonstrate how social and political networks formed in relation to spaces within the city. A central aspiration of this initiative is to capture the histories of political dissident refugees, narratives that have remained largely undocumented and conspicuously absent from English-language sources.
