Daniel P.GAMEZ
| Writer | Interdisciplinary academic | Activist research |
ABOUT ME
Daniel P. Gámez
Political Geography | Critical Indigenous Studies | Urban Studies
Daniel P. Gámez is a human geographer specializing in the study of Latin American colonialism, racialization, Indigenous sovereignty, and imperial urbanism.
He is President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of History & American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Daniel is interested in collaborative and participatory projects with grassroots organizations in Abya Yala (Latin America), particularly in Mexico.
Drawing on the work of Indigenous, Black, and Latinx anticolonial thinkers, his work examines the ways urban Indigenous communities organize to transform infrastructures and political institutions in ways that assert sovereignty and self-determination.
Community engaged research
As a first generation scholar, I am dedicated to collaborative projects that work with communities at the grassroots level.
I believe academic knowledge in Western institutions has been historically employed to exploit marginalized groups and populations. As such, new generations of scholars require a deep sense of ethical responsibility tied to lasting political commitments.
My work is much more than an intellectual project. I seek to support community organizations in Xochimilco, Mexico City where I have served as volunteer and organizer.
I understand research as intimately tied to independent community projects and forms of mobilization.
In particular, I focus on forms of racialization and spatial segregation by looking at archival sources and doing collaborative workshops with various collectives in Mexico City.
I have also engaged in participatory-action methods, particularly through community-based labor, political, and social organizing.
CONTACT ME
Daniel P. Gámez
President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Departments of History & American Indian Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
email: daniel.pergam@gmail.com
