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Professor Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez (BA, MSc, PhD) serves in the Political Science Department within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. A Binizaá scholar from Ixtaltepec in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, she holds the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Indigenous Feminist Studies and organizes the annual Indigenous Feminisms Workshop.
Her research centers on Indigenous feminisms and the embodied impacts of natural resource extraction, examining connections between land violence and bodily experiences across Canada and Mexico. Key themes include body-land relations, transnational Indigenous resistance, and critiques of green capitalism. She actively bridges North American and Latin American Indigenous scholarship through comparative frameworks.
Publications reveal consistent focus on Indigenous land/water defense in Oaxaca and Canada, with recent work analyzing renewable energy conflicts, marine conservation, and Indigenous women's knowledge systems. Her scholarship consistently challenges neoliberal environmentalism while centering Indigenous feminist perspectives.
- Canada Research Chair in Comparative Indigenous Feminist Studies
As an educator, she teaches core courses including Introduction to Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Political Thought, and specialized seminars on Indigenous feminisms. Her work extends through the @indigenousfeminisms platform, fostering transnational academic-community dialogue on Indigenous feminist praxis.
