Noé López

Anthropology · Political Economy · Migration
United States / México

About

I am an anthropologist and political economist whose work examines how Indigenous communities govern themselves across borders. My research focuses on Mixtec migrant communities linking southern Mexico and the United States, with particular attention to sovereignty, migration, and sexuality as domains of political and economic practice.

My work approaches sexuality not as identity but as a mode of governance, and migration not as displacement but as a constitutive political process. Through ethnographic research, I analyze how authority, obligation, and collective decision-making are enacted beyond the formal structures of the state.

Research

My current project theorizes enacted sovereignty as a set of gendered, sexual, and economic practices through which Indigenous communities exercise political authority across national borders, independent of state recognition.

Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, the project shows how mobility, intimacy, and communal obligation function as political infrastructure in transnational Indigenous life.

Miami. 2023.