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Lidia Ivonne Blásquez Martínez is a professor in the Department of Social Processes, since 2011, within the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Lerma Campus of the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology (2007) and MA in Social Sciences (2002) from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and BA in Ethnology (2001) from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH).

Her research centers on two main areas:
1) Conflict and cooperation, common pool resources management, and sustainability;
2) Human security and violence prevention.

Her academic interests extend to the politics of nature, with a particular emphasis on wetlands in Mexico. She approaches the subject through various lenses, including political ecology, ecofeminism, feminist political ecology, posthumanism, bioculturality, and biocentrism. Se analyzes environmental public policies as dynamic political arenas, exploring the intricate dynamics of conflict and cooperation within territories defined as natural protected areas.

Among her recent publications is "Ecofrontera. Análisis ecofeminista de los espacios intersticiales como cuerpos-territorios" (2021) in Ecología Política , as well as "Motherhood and Academia in Mexican Universities: Juggling Our Way through COVID-19," co-authored with Lucia Montes-Ortiz, featured in O’reilly, Andrea. Green, Fiona Joy (eds.) (2021). Mothers, mothering and COVID-19. Dispatches from a pandemic. Ontario: Demeter Press.