Alejandro Mercado Celis

amercado@unam.mx
Phone: +52 55 5623-0304

Profile

Full Researcher and coordinator of the Globality Studies Area at CISAN-UNAM. PhD. in Urban Planning (specialization in regional and international development) from the University of California Los Angeles. He is currently SNI II and Ambassador in Mexico of the Regional Studies Association. He coordinates the research seminars series on Creative and Cultural Industries and Night Studies. He is currently in charge of the financed PAPIIT project IN303820, "Transnational networks of knowledge transmission in the cultural industries of North America."

Position:

Full Researcher

Research Areas

  • Creative and Cultural Industries in North America
  • Night Studies in North American Cities

Recent Publications

2021. Alejandro Mercado-Celis and Edna Hernández González. Studies of urban nightlife and the nighttime economy in the cities of Mexico, the United States and Canada. CISAN-UNAM / Université de Bretagne Occidentale.

2021. Mercado Celis, Alejandro. “Urban Geography of the Nighttime Economy in the United States-Mexico Border. The case of the cities of Tijuana and San Diego” in Alejandro Mercado-Celis and Edna Hernández González. (editors) Studies of urban nightlife and the nighttime economy in North America. CISAN-UNAM / Université de Bretagne Occidentale.

Mercado Celis, Alejandro. 2020. “Transnational project ecologies as a form of integration of cultural and creative industries (CCI) in North America”, in Dávalos, Elisa. Zepeda, Roberto. Gómez, Marco. The Mexico-United States-Canada Trade Agreement: Integration or Disintegration? Recent Transformations in North America. CISAN-UNAM.