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Class, Gender and Migration
Using a gender-sensitive political economy approach, this book analyzes the emergence of new migration patterns between Central Mexico and the East Coast of the United States in the last decades of the twentieth century, and return migration during and after the global economic crisis of 2007. Based on ethnographic research carried out over a decade, details of the lives of women and men from two rural communities reveal how neoliberal economic restructuring led to the deterioration of livelihoods starting in the 1980s. Similar restructuring processes in the United States opened up opportunities for Mexican workers to labor in US industries that relied heavily on undocumented workers to sust...
The Struggle for Maize
Argues that maize biodiversity in central and southern Mexico is threatened as much by rural out-migration as by the flow of genes from genetically modified to local corn varieties.
Latin@s' Presence in the Food Industry
The "A" in "Latinas'" in the title is represented by an at symbol.
The 0.5 Generation
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, a generation of children crossed the border from the United States to begin their lives anew in Mexico. While all were international migrants, their roots spread far and wide. Some were migrant returnees born in Mexico; others had only ever known a life in the United States. Distinguishing returnees from new arrivals seems simple, but defining these youths' affiliations in their new homes in Mexico is much more complex and yields new insights that enrich our contemporary understanding of inclusion and belonging. This book is the product of twenty-five years' worth of fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue and research on these children's trajectories, tracing their journeys and studying integration—or lack thereof—into Mexican society and institutions.
Gender and Island Communities
This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings while deliberating on ‘islandness’ as part of the intersectional analysis. Though there is a wealth of recent literature on islands and island studies, most of this literature focuses on islands as objects of study rather than as contexts for exploring gender relations and local gendered developments. Taking Karides’ ‘Island feminism’ as a starting point and drawing from the wider literature on island studies as well as gender and place, this book bridges this gap by exploring gender, gender relations, affect and politics in various island settings spanning a great variety ...
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities
This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction, drama, film, photography, and popular print culture. While the book situates these texts within the specific context of post-apartheid South Africa, it also looks outwards towards transnational connectivity and cultural flows. The author uses the idea of restlessness to refer to the uneven flow of cultural tropes, political sentiment, ideas, ideologies, and representational modes across geographical boundaries, across time and space, and between genres, presenting sexual cultures as simultaneo...
Guadalupe in New York
Every December 12th, thousands of Mexican immigrants gather for the mass at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s feast day. They kiss images of the Virgin, wait for a bishop’s blessing—and they also carry signs asking for immigration reform, much like political protestors. It is this juxtaposition of religion and politics that Alyshia Gálvez investigates in Guadalupe in New York. The Virgin of Guadalupe is a profound symbol for Mexican and Mexican-American Catholics and the patron saint of their country. Her name has been invoked in war and in peace, and her image has been painted on walls, printed on T-shirts, and worshipped at countless shr...
¿Volver a casa?
Esta obra tiene un doble propósito. Primero, contribuir a la comprensión de las experiencias divergentes de relocalización de los migrantes, de las modalidades y los significados que adquirió volver a casa en América Latina a partir de 2008, punto de inflexión hacia una recesión económica que ha tenido efectos nodales sobre la dinámica de los flujos migratorios y, por supuesto, sobre los mercados laborales e inmobiliarios en el ámbito global. Segundo, explicar y analizar los efectos y las dinámicas diferenciadas de volver a casa en América Latina, en un momento histórico signado por el control de las migraciones y el cierre de las fronteras nacionales.
Eurasia
El concepto de Eurasia es hoy día un término controvertido. Utilizado principalmente como herramienta de confrontación de potencias emergentes como China y Rusia, que aspiran a configurar un frente político-cultural que frene la deriva hegemonista global del bloque atlantista en el que está incorporada la UE, desde el mundo académico nos proponemos contribuir igualmente a una labor intelectual de resistencia, no solo resiliencia, frente al hegemonismo académico anglosajón, heredero de la concepción colonial del continente asiático como un “otro” del “continente” europeo. El Grupo de Investigación Reconocido de la USAL “Humanismo Eurasia” (fundado en 2017) reivindica de...
Transforming Modernity
Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Noted Argentine/Mexican anthropologist Néstor García Canclini addresses these questions and more in Transforming Modernity, a translation of Las culturas populares en el capitalismo. Based on fieldwork among the Purépecha of Michoacán, Mexico, some of the most talented artisans of the New World, the book is not so much a work of ethnography as of philosophy—a cultural critique of modernism. García Canclini delineates three interpretations of popular culture: spontaneous creation, which posits that artistic expressi...
