Louise Walker

Ms. Walker is pursuing a study of the intersection of late capitalism, political culture and urban space in Mexico City between the 1982 economic crash and the first-ever municipal elections in 1997. Her research suggests that in spite of the increase in popular mobilisation after the earthquake , a changing municipal power structure and a new political culture undermined the democratic representation achieved by residents. She employs an innovative interdisciplinary methodology that integrates a historical study of political culture and economics with a spatial analysis of the changing urban geography. Her local treatment of more widespread, global changes seeks to understand the interaction of democracy, capitalism and political culture in the late twentieth century.