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Food, Agriculture and Social Change
Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, each of which seeks to explain development as it uniquely unfolds, this book explores how social change in food and agriculture is fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable.
Claiming and Contesting Representation in Mexico
Mexico is a country whose global political and economic significance are rapidly increasing. This book offers the first in-depth English-language analysis of the politics of representation in Mexico. Through innovative conceptual work and original case studies, the book explores important trends in Mexican politics and governance through the lens of representation, including who speaks and stands for whom, on what grounds and in what domains and the challenges they face. Revealing a significant portrait of major tensions in and challenges to democracy across Mexico emerges, this book will be of interest to those researching current trends in the theory and practice of political representation, and readers looking for new perspectives on Mexican politics and governance.
Rockin Las Americas
Every nation in the Americas—from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba—has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin’ Las Américas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil, the Andes, and the Southern Cone as well as among Latinos in the United States. The contributors include experts in music, history, literature, culture, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing rockeros and rockeras. The multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives they bring to the topic serve to address a broad range of fundamental questions about rock in Latin and Latino America, including: Why did rock become such a controversial cultural force in the region? In what ways has rock served as a medium for expressing national identities? How are unique questions of race, class, and gender inscribed in Latin American rock? What makes Latin American rock Latin American? Rockin’ Las Américas is an essential book for anyone who hopes to understand the complexities of Latin American culture today.
Generation Occupy
The fight for a $15 minimum wage. Nationwide teacher strikes. Bernie Sanders’s political revolution and the rise of AOC. Black Lives Matter. #MeToo. Read how the Occupy movement helped reshape American politics, culture and the groundbreaking movements to follow. On the ten-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, Generation Occupy sets the historical record straight about the movement’s lasting impacts. Far from a passing phenomenon, Occupy Wall Street marked a new era of social and political transformation, reigniting the labor movement, remaking the Democratic Party and reviving a culture of protest that has put the fight for social, economic, environmental and racial justice at the f...
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El futuro ya fue
El futuro ya fue. Socioantropología de l@s jóvenes en la modernidad es el resultado de un programa de investigación sobre culturas, movimientos e identidades juveniles. En este libro se discuten los principales modelos y enfoques teóricos desde los cuales se ha definido a las y los jóvenes y se analizan diversos movimientos juveniles de América Latina y Estados Unidos. Se propone también un análisis y reflexión en torno a temas relevantes en la discusión sobre la juventud, tales como acción social, identidades colectivas, culturas, grupos y redes juveniles, así como algunos elementos contextuales y articulaciones sociales donde se conforman y cobran sentido las expresiones juveni...
Boletín Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales 2021
En este Boletín del CEAS dedicado a las antropologías feministas en México a través de una propuesta culturalmente situada y contextual, contribuimos a exponer parte del panorama diverso de nuestro ejercicio profesional, en tiempos de encuentros, desencuentros, conflictos y consensos.
Jefe de jefes
La fuerte dosis de violencia y muerte que genera la creciente expansión del comercio ilegal de narcóticos y estupefacientes es uno de los fenómenos más inquietantes en la sociedad contemporánea. En el espacio particular de la frontera México-Estados Unidos la situación se recrea en crónicas que conforman una extensa producción de canciones, llamadas popularmente corridos, que definen, justifican o condenan la incorporación al mundo del narcotráfico de sectores subalternos, desclasados, desempleados, campesina sin tierra. Esta expresión poética y musical, de fuerte arraigo en la cultura popular mexicana, es el centro de análisis de Jefe de jefes. Cultura y narcocultura en Méxic...
Undocumented Politics
In 2018, more than eleven million undocumented immigrants lived in the United States. Not since slavery had so many U.S. residents held so few political rights. Many strove tirelessly to belong. Others turned to their homelands for hope. What explains their clashing strategies of inclusion? And how does gender play into these fights? Undocumented Politics offers a gripping inquiry into migrant communities’ struggles for rights and resources across the U.S.-Mexico divide. For twenty-one months, Abigail Andrews lived with two groups of migrants and their families in the mountains of Mexico and in the barrios of Southern California. Her nuanced comparison reveals how local laws and power dyna...
