Rosalba Icaza Garza

is Associate Professor at the International Instute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Before coming to ISS and the Netherlands, she was an activist in Mexico City working for a network of social movements opposing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). She moved to the UK and obtained her PhD from the University of Warwick (UK) on the political economy of transborder civic resistance to open/neo-liberal regionalism. She explains her research agenda at ISS as one that seeks to understand how place-based social resistances contribute to global epistemic justice.