Rosalba Contreras Ponce is a Mexican sociologist and adjunct professor (Profesora de Asignatura) at the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores (ENES), Unidad León, of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She holds a degree in Sociology from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa and a Master’s in Rural Development from UAM-Xochimilco. Her research intersects sociology, philosophy of liberation, aging studies, care ethics, and social solidarity economy, with a focus on liberating practices for older adults, community-based financial tools like savings and loan cooperatives (cajas de ahorro y préstamo), municipal development, and critiques of Eurocentric intellectual hierarchies.
Her work draws from Latin American liberation philosophy to address oppression in aging, envisioning praxis toward a dignified “good old age” through collective economic and social mechanisms. She has published in journals such as the Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, including the article “Hacia la praxis liberadora de la vejez. Cajas de Ahorro y Préstamo: Instrumento para la construcción de una buena vejez” (2022), which applies liberation philosophy to elderly empowerment and solidarity economies. She has also contributed to discussions on municipal federalism, rural development, and intercultural practices, participating in conferences and panels on liberation thought, migration, and aging. Her scholarship bridges sociological analysis with philosophical perspectives on freedom, care, and resistance to dominant structures in Mexican and Latin American contexts.
Articles and papers published in this journal include:
“Hacia la praxis liberadora de la vejez. Cajas de Ahorro y Préstamo: Instrumento para la construcción de una buena vejez“ (Volume 13, Issue 1 – Spring, 2022)