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Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs
This book explores the current human rights crisis created by the War on Drugs in Mexico. It focuses on three vulnerable communities that have felt the impacts of this war firsthand: undocumented Central American migrants in transit to the United States, journalists who report on violence in highly dangerous regions, and the mourning relatives of victims of severe crimes, who take collective action by participating in human rights investigations and searching for their missing loved ones. Analyzing contemporary novels, journalistic chronicles, testimonial works, and documentaries, the book reveals the political potential of these communities’ vulnerability and victimization portrayed in these fictional and non-fictional representations. Violence against migrants, journalists, and activists reveals an array of human rights violations affecting the right to safe transit across borders, freedom of expression, the right to information, and the right to truth and justice.
The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage
The first major social revolution of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase (1910–21) and the subsequent years of reconstruction (1921–40). Offering a sweeping and compelling new account of this iconic revolution, The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage reveals its profound impact on both global cinema and intellectual thought in and beyond Mexico. Focusing on the period from 1940 to 1970, Adela Pineda Franco examines a group of North American, European, and Latin American filmmakers and intellectuals who mined this extensive visual archive to produce politically e...
Mexico, Slavery, Freedom
“Through its rich and fascinating collection of documents, Mexico, Slavery, Freedom offers a much-needed window into Mexico’s long history of slavery that will leave readers wanting to learn and discover more. Sierra Silva brilliantly guides his readers through the maze of Mexican archival resources. . . . Through his careful content curation, readers will discover how corruption and discrimination led to persistent enslavement of indigenous Mesoamerican and transpacific peoples despite royal orders to abolish the practice. . . . The rich, detailed-packed introductions--to the book in general and to each chapter--are nonetheless succinct and to the point. Sierra Silva’s . . . editorial...
State of Disappearance
Disappearance is marked by a devastating absence. It constitutes a form of violence that rips open a wound in time, offering no viable recovery and no meaningful justice. It provides alibis to perpetrators while denying victims their humanity. For those who are left to live with its presence, the terror is infinite. State of Disappearance brings together the power of artistic testimony and witnessing with critical voices to ask deeper questions about extreme violence, the normalization of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialization, along with wider concerns about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. A gallery of dedicated artworks by Mexican abst...
Mudanza
Los ensayos de Mudanza hablan de destinos que se desvÃan; de personajes que evaden un oficio literario convencional en su búsqueda de que la palabra y la materia se encuentren. Su vocación es aproximarse al texto a través del cuerpo, el sonido y el espacio. Quieren hallar un nuevo lenguaje, cruzar un lÃmite. Este libro es, en palabras de su autora, la confirmación de una imposibilidad.
Emergencias culturales
Museos, cines, librerÃas y salas de conciertos en silencio. La Covid-19 puso en pausa y en duda a las instituciones culturales, quedaron sin empleo artistas y trabajadores. A la vez, se expandieron el teletrabajo, el streaming y las ganancias de empresas digitales. Se aceleró lo que ya venÃa cambiando en la comunicación entre creadores, públicos y comunidades. La presente obra contiene, además de estadÃsticas de empleos perdidos y consumos, estudios cualitativos realizados en Brasil y México durante los años 2020 a 2022 por Néstor GarcÃa Canclini, Juan Brizuela, Sharine Machado y Mariana MartÃnez en la Cátedra Olavo Setubal del Instituto de Altos Estudios de la Universidad de SÃ...
Conjunto vacÃo
En medio de una ruptura, una mujer se da a la tarea de organizar el archivo de una escritora olvidada. A través de manuscritos, fotografÃas y cartas de amor, la narradora estudia el pasado y se acerca a su propia vida, a sus desamores y al desamparo que deja la ausencia de su madre. Guiada por la teorÃa de conjuntos, el manual de un telescopio y los anillos en el tronco de los árboles, juega con el lenguaje gráfico y el textual para preguntarse por las dinámicas del tiempo y de la ausencia. Coedición digital Laguna Libros - eLibros. Derechos solo para Colombia.
Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border
Since the early 1990s, the repeated murders of women from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico have become something of a global cause célèbre. Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border examines creative responses to these acts of violence. It reveals how theatre, art, film, fiction and other popular cultural forms seek to remember and mourn the female victims of violent death in the city at the same time as they interrogate the political, legal and societal structures that produce the crimes. Different chapters examine the varying art forms to engage with Ciudad Juárez’s feminicidal wave. Finnegan discusses Àlex Rigola’s theatrical adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 266...
