Doctorate in Geography (1999). Researcher and professor in Urban and Cultural Geography at the Department of Geography in the Philosophy and Literature College at UNAM in Mexico City. Research interests in urban consumption and thematization of the city, housing and gentrification, social movements, social displacement, conflict, and political subjectivation. She teaches in undergraduate and graduate courses in Urban Geography, Cultural Geography, Geographical Research Methods, and Urban Space Agency.
Coordinator of the Critical Urban Studies Seminar since 2014, member of the City, Retail, and Consumption Network since 2009, in the Ibero-American Network for Research on Politics, Conflicts, and Social Movements since 2019.
Recent Publications:
Books
Patricia Olivera y Matheus Grandi. 2020. Territorios contemporáneos de América Latina. Identidades, Movimientos Sociales y Transición. México: Coed. Bonilla Eds. UNAM y Contested Cities.
José Gasca y Patricia Olivera Coords. 2017. Ciudad, Comercio Urbano y Consumo. Experiencias desde Latinoamérica y Europa, México, IIE-UNAM.
Chapters
Social Vulnerability. Learning from the earthquake of September 19, 2017, in México. In Manuel Macias and Gabriela Vera, eds. Disaster and Neoliberalism. Different expressions of social vulnerability. Forthcoming.
Consumption and Gentrification in Mexico City. In José Gasca, 2017. Espacios del consumo y el comercio en la ciudad contemporánea. México: IIE-UNAM
