Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-01002-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 139 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Studies of the Americas

This open access book discusses the relationship between periodicals, tourism, and nation-building in Mexico. It enquires into how magazines, a staple form of the promotional apparatus of tourism since its inception, articulated an imaginative geography of Mexico at a time when that industry became a critical means of economic recovery and political stability after the Revolution. Notwithstanding their vogue, popularity, reach, and close affiliations to commerce and state over several decades, magazines have not received any sustained critical attention in the scholarship on that period. This book aims to redress that oversight. It argues that illustrated magazines like Mexican Folkways (1925–1937) and Mexico This Month (1955–1971) offer rich and compelling materials in that regard, not only as unique tools for interrogating the ramifications of tourism on the country’s reconstruction, but as autonomous objects of study that form a vital if complex part of Mexico’s visual culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindsay, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Tourismus & Reise: Ökonomie, Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Tourism, Nation-Building, and Magazines.- 3. Tourism Advertisements in Mexican Folkways (1925-1937).- 4. Mapping Capital in Mexico, This Month (1955-1971).- 5. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Claire Lindsay is Reader in Latin American Literature and Culture at University College London, UK. She is the author of Locating Latin American Women Writers and Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America.