Tijuana Dreaming

Tijuana Dreaming

Life and Art at the Global Border

  • Autor: Kun, Josh; Montezemolo, Fiamma
  • Editor: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822352815
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822395553
  • Lloc de publicació:  Durham , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2012
  • Mes: Setembre
  • Pàgines: 408
  • DDC: 972/.2
  • Idioma: Anglés
Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time, the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico. They explore urban planning in light of Tijuana's unique infrastructural, demographic, and environmental challenges. They delve into its musical countercultures, architectural ruins, cinema, and emergence as a hot spot on the international art scene. One contributor examines fictional representations of Tijuana's past as a Prohibition-era "city of sin" for U.S. pleasure seekers. Another reflects on the city's recent struggles with kidnappings and drug violence. In an interview, Néstor García Canclini revisits ideas that he advanced in Culturas híbridas (1990), his watershed book about Latin America and cultural hybridity. Taken together, the selections present a kaleidoscopic portrait of a major border city in the age of globalization.

Contributors. Tito Alegría, Humberto Félix Berumen, Roberto Castillo Udiarte, Iain Chambers, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, Teddy Cruz, Ejival, Tarek Elhaik, Guillermo Fadanelli, Néstor García Canclini, Ingrid Hernández, Jennifer Insley-Pruitt, Kathryn Kopinak, Josh Kun, Jesse Lerner, Fiamma Montezemolo, Rene Peralta, Rafa Saavedra, Lucía Sanromán, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, Heriberto Yépez

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword: A Line in the Sand - Iain Chambers
  • Introduction: The Factory of Dreams - Josh Kun and Fiamma Montezemolo
  • One: Welcome Tu Tijuana - Roberto Castillo
  • Two: Snapshots from and about a City Named Tijuana - Humberto Félix Berumen
  • Three: Tijuanologies: An Urban Essay - Heriberto Yépez
  • Four: Globalization in Tijuana Maquiladoras: Using Historical Antecedents and Migration to Test Globalization Models - Kathryn Kopinak
  • Five: (Conversation with) Néstor García Canclini, on How Tijuana Ceased to Be the Laboratory of Postmodernity - Fiamma Montezemolo
  • Six: Postcards from the Border: In Tijuana, Revolución Is an Avenue - Santiago Vaquera- Vásquez
  • Seven: Illicit Acts of Urbanism - René Peralta
  • Eight: The Transborder Metropolis in Question: The Case of Tijuana and San Diego - Tito Alegría
  • Nine: Practices of Encroachment: Urban Waste Moves Southbound; Illegal Zoning Seeps into North - Teddy Cruz
  • Ten: Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S.- Mexico Border - Michelle Téllez
  • Eleven: La Canción de Tijuana / The Song of Tijuana - Guillermo Fadanelli
  • Twelve: ¿Todos somos ciudadanos? : Artistic Production and Agency in Tijuana - Lucía Sanromán
  • Thirteen: Bioethnography of an Artist: Ingrid Hernández - Fiamma Montezemolo
  • Fourteen: Borderline Archaeology - Jesse Lerner
  • Fifteen: Redefining Sodom: A Latter- Day Vision of Tijuana - Jennifer Insley- Pruitt
  • Sixteen: Crossfader Playlist - Rafa Saavedra
  • Seventeen: Counterculture, Rockers, Punks, New Romantics, and Mods in Tijuana - Ejival
  • Eighteen: Borderline Ghosts: From Touch of Evil to Maquilapolis: City of Factories - Tarek Elhaik
  • Nineteen: The Kidnapped City - Josh Kun
  • Twenty: The Line - Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
  • Contributors
  • Index