Dr. Inés Durán Matute

Inés Durán Matute is an active companion of the struggle of native peoples in Mexico, a militant in the Struggle for Life, and a passionate photographer. She is a PhD graduate of the University of Sydney, Australia, and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (2017-2019), the University of California Los Angeles (2019-2020), and of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) (2020-2022).

She is currently a researcher at the Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology in Mexico, where she investigates the entanglements of authoritarianism, capitalism, and the socio-ecological collapse and explores the prospects of struggles and resistances to create non-capitalist futures, mainly through art and education.

Selected publications

Durán Matute, I.  & Jenss, A. (2025) Beyond state space: Competing spatializations and the violence of energy infrastructures, EPC: Politics and Space.

Durán Matute, I.  (2024) From Forgiveness to Permission: The State and “the Indigenous” in the face of Planetary Collapse. In Doulos, Panagiotis, González Cruz, Edith y Milena Rodríguez (eds.). Oh Sorry! Crisis, Social Struggle and Rituals of Forgiveness in Postmodern Capitalism (pp. 31-56). Quebec: Daraja Press.

Durán Matute, I.  (2023) Del internacionalismo al transterritorialismo. El tejido de las Luchas por la Vida frente al colapso planetario. In De Parres Gómez, Francisco (ed.). Internacionalismo crítico y luchas por la vida: Hacia la construcción de horizontes futuros desde las resistencias y autonomías (pp. 108-135). Guadalajara: Cátedra Jorge Alonso.

Durán Matute, I. & Féliz, M. (2022) Authoritarianism and developmentalism framing ‘progressive’ governments in Mexico and Argentina. In International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (ed.), Global Authoritarianism. Perspectives and Contestations from the South (pp.197-218). Bielefel: Transcript.

Durán Matute, I. & Camarena González, R. (2021) The Machinery of #Techno-colonialism crafting “democracy.” A Glimpse into Digital Sub-netizenship in Mexico, Democratization, 28(8): 1545-1563.

Durán Matute, I. (2018) Indigenous Peoples and the Geographies of Power. Mezcala’s Narratives of Neoliberal Governance. New York: Routledge.

E-mail: i.duranmatute@ciesas.edu.mx