Globalisation and loss of identity

María Eugenia Sánchez D. de R. is a professor-researcher at Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla (Mexico). She received her PhD in Sociology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She has been visiting professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She is a Level II member of the Mexican National System of Researchers. In 1973 she founded a social transformation project at a native indigenous region where she lived and worked for 15 years. In 2003 she created the Alain Touraine Chair at Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla. She has authored several books and articles in national and international journals. In 2006 she was awarded with the “Palmes Académiques” granted by the French government.