Josefa SÁNCHEZ CONTRERAS

(1991, belongs to the Zoque people of San Miguel Chimalapa, Oaxaca, Mexico) She is a researcher, activist and essayist. Doctoral researcher in Mesoamerican Studies and Master in Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Degree in Sociology from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Co-author of the book Colonialismo energético (Icaira, 2023), coordinator of the book Cada vez más Mökayas, pensares y sentires de zoques contemporáneos (Ce-Acatl, 2022), her essays and articles can be read in The Washington Post in Spanish, La Ojarasca, La Jornada, the Revista de la Universidad de México and EstePaís. She writes about territorial defences, indigenous rights, history of rebellions and colonialism. In her activism, she is part of the Matza Collective, made up of young Zoques, from where she contributes to the defence of the rivers of the Chimalapas jungle against extractive open-pit mining megaprojects. In his academic work she is a member of the Laboratorio Investigación Acción Territorial at the University of Granada, Spain.

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