Kun / Montezemolo Tijuana Dreaming

Life and Art at the Global Border
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9555-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, featuring selections by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kun, Josh

Montezemolo, Fiamma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword. A Line in the Sand / Iain Chambers ix

Introduction. The Factory of Dreams / Josh Kun and Fiamma Montzemolo 1

1. Welcome Tu Tijuana / Roberto Castillo 21

2. Snapshots from and about a City Named Tijuana / Humberto Félix Berumen 25

3. Tijuanologies: An Urban Essay / Heriberto Yépez 47

4. Globalization in Tijuana Maquiladoras: Using Historical Antecedents and Migration to Test Globalization Models / Kathryn Kopinak 71

5. (Conversation with) Néstor García Canclini, on How Tijuana Ceased to Be the Laboratory of Postmodernity / Fiamma Montezemolo 94

6. Postcards from the Border: In Tijuana, Revolución Is an Avenue / Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez 117

7. Illicit Acts of Urbanism / René Peralto 136

8. The Transborder Metropolis in Question: The Case of Tijuana and San Diego / Tito Alegría 148

9. Practices of Encroachment: Urban Waste Moves Southbound; Illegal Zoning Seeps into North / Teddy Cruz 175

10. Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border / Michelle Téllez 190

11. La Canción de Tijuana: The Song of Tijuana / Guillermo Fadanelli 212

12. ¿Todos somos ciudadanos?: Artistic Production and Agency in Tijuana / Lucía Sanromán 219

13. Bioethnograhy of an Artist: Ingrid Hernández / Fiamma Montezemolo 240

14. Borderline Archaeology / Jesse Lerner 264

15. Redefining Sodom: A Latter-Day Vision of Tijuana / Jennifer Insley-Pruitt 277

16. Crossfader Playlist / Rafa Saavedra 300

17. Counterculture, Rockers, Punks, New Romantics, and Mods in Tijuana / Ejival 329

18. Borderline Ghosts: From Touch of Evil to Maquilapolis: City of Factories / Tarek Elhaik 339

19. The Kidnapped City / Josh Kun 355

20. The Line / Luis Humberto Crosthwaite 370

Contributors 375

Index 381

Über Autor(innen)

Josh Kun is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America and coeditor of Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies.Fiamma Montezemolo is an anthropologist and artist currently teaching in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Faceless: Ethnicity and Gender in the Zapatista Movement and a co-author of Here Is Tijuana! Iain Chambers teaches cultural and postcolonial studies at the Orientale University of Naples. He is the author, most recently, of Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity, also published by Duke University Press.