Browsing by Subject "Mexico"
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Affective Suffrage: Social Media, Street Protests, and Theatre as Alternative Spaces for Political Self-Representation in the 2012 Mexican Presidential Elections
(2017)This article examines alternative forums for democratic self-representation as a response to state corruption, especially the social movement #YoSoy132, which emerged online and on the streets during Mexico’s 2012 electoral ... -
Caminar en zapatos migrantes: la lógica fronteriza de la instalación de realidad virtual Carne y arena de Alejandro González Iñárritu
(2021-12-08)La instalación de realidad virtual Carne y arena (2017) de Alejandro González Iñárritu es una invitación a la experiencia de cruzar el desierto como migrante y enfrentar a los oficiales de ... -
The Co-Production of Technoscience and Social Science in Green Revolution Mexico, 1956-1979
(2018)In 1943 the Rockefeller Foundation, nominally in partnership with the Mexican government, initiated its Mexican Agriculture Program (MAP). Over the subsequent decades, a complex network of worldwide inter-governmental/NGO ... -
Crossing to Care: Movement and Flexibility in Mexican Massage Healing
(2020)Transnationalism and border studies have often rightly focused on the movement of people, materials, and ideas across national lines as well as issues of migration such as along the U.S.-Mexico border. This thesis examines ... -
Design and construction technology in Mexican social housing at the end of the 20th century.
(2022)This paper examines the role of construction systems in the success and failure of the Mexican government and the private sector in providing housing for the working class at the end of the 20th century. In this study, ... -
A Distant Jaguar: The Civil Society Project in Chimalapas
(Critique of Anthropology, 2001-12-01)Civil society has become an important unit of analysis in the context of the globalization of politics and political discourse and the decentralization of nation-states. At a discursive level, it is a concept which elides ... -
Four challenges in the field of alternative, radical and citizens’ media research
(Media, Culture & Society, 2014-03-01)In January 1994 the Zapatista movement in southern Mexico inaugurated a new era of media use for dissent. Since that time, an array of dissenting collectives and individuals have appropriated media technologies in order ... -
FÚTBOL IN THE HEARTLAND: MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS, TRANSNATIONAL CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND RECREATIONAL SPORT IN OKLAHOMA CITY
(2015-05-05)When immigrants traverse international borders they bring with them many cultural practices and traditions from their lives back home. This research focuses on how a modern sport, fútbol (soccer), operates as a cultural ... -
‘I am Very Devoted to our Lady’: Creolization in Enslaved Afro-Mexican Blasphemy Trials
(2024-05-10)Many historians have viewed Afro-Mexican blasphemy as an opportunity for resistance against an oppressive system in which enslaved Black people committed sacrilege to appeal to the Mexican Inquisition for reprieve and to ... -
La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico
(2020-09)La Castañeda Insane Asylum is the first inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum—a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican ... -
Mexican Treaty of January 20, 1883.
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Recreating Main Street: Midcentury U.S. Expatriate Soft Power in the Heart of Mexico, 1930-1980
(2019-12-13)The American Colonists of Mexico City were used as conduits of and representatives for U.S. foreign policy and U.S. corporate influence in post WWII Mexico in a reconfiguration of the Good Neighbor policy. By using soft ... -
Simulation in Mexico: A Case Study Using CLUG
(Simulation & Gaming, 1991-09-01)The article presents a brief overview of CLUG and discusses a few runs of it in the graduate planning program of the Instituto de Ingeneria y Arquitectura of the University of Juarez, Mexrico. As such it suggests ways that ... -
Women in Mexico's illicit economy: expendable as pennies or breaking barriers?
(2022)This thesis will examine how women’s roles vary throughout the economic, social, and governmental domination and influence of Mexico at the hands of the narcotrafficking organizations. The chapters of this thesis are ...