Maria Elena Ansotegui Martinez

Maria Elena Ansotegui Martinez serves as an External Lecturer in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Humanities. Concurrently pursuing her PhD, her research centers on indigenous feminism in Latin America with concentrated regional focus on Mexico and Bolivia. She examines how social movements construct new societal realities through interdisciplinary analysis of journalistic, political, and literary discourse, particularly investigating the Zapatista indigenous movement's role in mobilizing society and shaping collective identity.

Her research interests span Latin American Cultural Studies, Intercultural Marketing Studies, indigenous feminism, and social movement theory. She critically analyzes narrative frameworks through which social actors like the Zapatistas challenge power structures and forge collective identities, with recurring engagement with decolonial theory, ecological utopias, and resistance during global crises like the pandemic. Her work consistently bridges cultural studies, political science, and gender theory within Latin American contexts.

Publication analysis reveals strong thematic continuity across her 11 research outputs (2018-2021), emphasizing indigenous resistance against globalization projects (e.g., Maya Train), pandemic-era mobilization, and the evolution of utopian thought from archaic to ecological forms. Conference activities demonstrate active participation in contemporary debates on Bolivia's climate challenges, territorial feminism, and Colombia's historical memory processes.

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