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Biography
Alejandro is a Lecturer in Urban Geography at the Research Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh. Before joining Edinburgh, he worked as a Lecturer at the University of Bath, and as a post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Geography, University of Durham. Alejandro has a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.
His research focuses on the everyday relations between infrastructure, environment and the state as mediated and enabled by labour.
Alejandro can be contacted at [email protected]
Education/Academic qualification
Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Waterrworks: Labour, infrastructure and the making of urban water in Mexico City, LSE, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Making repair reparative: Towards expanded geographies of repair
Millington, N., Scheba, S., Ponder, S., Paterniani, S., Knuth, S., Kemmer, L., De Coss Corzo, A. & Corwin, J., 3 Jun 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Progress in Human Geography.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico
Becerril Miranda, H., Anderson, B. & De Coss Corzo, A., 1 Jun 2026, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 51, 2, e70056.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Breakdown, Maintenance and Repair
De Coss Corzo, A., 25 May 2026, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society. Fouché, R. (ed.). Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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State making at the infrastructural frontier: bureaucratic practices and the techno-politics of hydraulic infrastructure in post-revolutionary Mexico City
De Coss Corzo, A., 1 Apr 2026, In: Political Geography. 126, 103482.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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To complete modernity or to embrace heterogeneity? From historical inequality towards an uncertain future for water infrastructure in Mexico City
Ortiz-Moreno, J. A., De Coss-Corzo, A. & Lawhon, M., 9 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Urban Geography. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Society for Latin American Studies 2025
De Coss Corzo, A. (Advisor)
10 Apr 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Labour as practice and method: reflections on the ethnography of infrastructure
De Coss Corzo, A. (Assessor)
9 Apr 2025Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Urban Studies Foundation International Workshop
De Coss Corzo, A. (Advisor)
30 Nov 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Humanity's Urban Future CIFAR Workshop
De Coss Corzo, A. (Advisor)
29 Oct 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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RGS-IBG Latin American Geographies Working Group (External organisation)
De Coss Corzo, A. (Advisor)
13 Sept 2024 → 2027Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
Projects
- 2 Active
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Subsidence: making life possible in the urban Anthropocene
De Coss Corzo, A. (Principal Investigator)
10/09/24 → …
Project: Research
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Waterworks: labour, infrastructure and the technopolitics of water in Mexico City
De Coss Corzo, A. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/15 → …
Project: Research