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Tania Ocampo-García is a PhD candidate specializing in Human Geography with a focus on Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research examines the socio-environmental impacts of rapid urbanization, particularly in the context of Cancun, Mexico, a prominent tourism destination. Tania's doctoral thesis, provisionally titled 'Sensing Paradise: Mapping Cancun's Multisensory Urban Fabric', utilizes participatory multisensory approaches to foreground local perspectives in urban studies. She employs critical visual methods to investigate the effects of urban growth on communities living within environmentally fragile regions, emphasizing participatory action research (PAR) as a means to co-produce knowledge with residents. Tania's work highlights diverging experiences between residents and visitors concerning safety and perceptions of violence in tourist areas. She has organized workshops and collaborated with UN agencies and educational institutions, advocating for inclusive methodologies that bridge community knowledge with academic research. Her teaching experiences include instructing the course GY317: Geographies of Urban Violence, which integrates Latin American perspectives into discussions typically dominated by European theoretical frameworks.
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