Gabriela Méndez Cota

Gabriela Méndez Cota is a transdisciplinary researcher and a convenor of postgraduate programmes in the Department of Philosophy at Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City. She also collaborates, as a lecturer and advisor, with the interdepartamental Critical Gender Studies PhD program at the same institution. Inspired by feminist epistemologies and technoscience feminism, Gabriela’s research has explored theoretically the subjective and environmental dimensions of global technological controversies in specific contexts. She holds an MA and a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London (2014), and for two years worked as a postdoc researcher at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Cuajimalpa, a result of which was the publication of her book Disrupting Maize: Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Gabriela is a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers since 2017, and some of her recent publications include: “Beyond Rebellion of the Net: Digital Commoning as Critical Cultural Literacy”, co-authored with Alberto López Cuenca, Critical Arts (2020); “A queer ecological reading of ecocultural identity in contemporary Mexico”, in Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identities: A Reader (2020); “Policing the Environmental Conjuncture: Structural Violence in Mexico and the National Assembly of the Environmentally Affected”, new formations 96/97 (2019); “Structural Violence and Scientific Activism in Mexico: a Feminist Agenda”, Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 48:3 (2019) and “Feminismo, infrapolítica, extinción”, Pensamiento al margen (2018). With Rafico Ruiz, Gabriela co-edits the open access journal of culture and theory culturemachine.net, and is the author and leader of the project Philosophy of editorial practice: critical perspectives on open access and diversity (2019-2021) funded by Universidad Iberoamericana’s Dirección de Investigación y Posgrado.