Commemorations And Protest In The Zocalo

Author : Ana Martinez,City University of New York. Theatre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1267924128

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Commemorations and Protest in the Zocalo by Ana Martinez,City University of New York. Theatre Pdf

Using an interdisciplinary approach, I study the Zocalo as a site of performance through five theatrical events in different historical periods, from the early colonial era to the present: the 1539 Civic Festival of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the 1721 Bicentennial Parade of the Royal Banner, the 1910 Great Civic Procession and Great Historical Parade, the 2001 Zapatista entry into Mexico City, and the 2010 Bicentennial of Independence and Revolution. I show how, in order to reassert power, rulers have invented traditions and recycled old rituals in their staging of official celebrations. I foreground the role of the indigenous populations in these performances: as subjects with agency, as exploited objects, and as exotic characters.

Author : Randal Sheppard
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826356826

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A Persistent Revolution by Randal Sheppard Pdf

Sheppard explores Mexico’s profound political, social, and economic changes through the lens of the persistent political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism. By examining the major events and transformations in Mexico since 1968, he shows how historical myths such as the Mexican Revolution, Benito Juárez, and Emiliano Zapata as well as Catholic nationalism emerged during historical-commemoration ceremonies, in popular social and anti-neoliberal protest movements, and in debates between commentators, politicians, and intellectuals. Sheppard provides a new understanding of developments in Mexico since 1968 by placing these events in their historical context. The work further contributes to understandings of nationalism more generally by showing how revolutionary nationalism in Mexico functioned during a process of state dismantling rather than state building, and it shows how nationalism could serve as a powerful tool for non-elites to challenge the actions of those in power or to justify new citizenship rights as well as for elites seeking to ensure political stability.

Author : Ana Martínez
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472132096

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Performance in the Zócalo by Ana Martínez Pdf

For more than five centuries, the Plaza Mayor (or Zócalo) in Mexico City has been the site of performances for a public spectatorship. During the period of colonial rule, performances designed to ensure loyalty to the Spanish monarchy were staged there, but over time, these displays gave way to staged demonstrations of resistance. Today, the Zócalo is a site for both official government-sponsored celebrations and performances that challenge the state. Performance in the Zócalo examines the ways that this city square has achieved symbolic significance over the centuries, and how national, ethnic, and racial identity has been performed there. A saying in Mexico City is “quien domina el centro, domina el país” (whoever dominates the center, dominates the country) as the Zócalo continues to act as the performative embodiment of Mexican society. This book highlights how particular performances build upon each other by recycling past architectures and performative practices for new purposes. Ana Martínez discusses the singular role of collective memory in creating meaning through space and landmarks, providing a new perspective and further insight into the problem of Mexico’s relationship with its own past. Rather than merely describe the commemorations, she traces the relationship between space and the invention of a Mexican imaginary. She also explores how indigenous communities, Mexico’s alienated subalterns, performed as exploited objects, exotic characters, and subjects with agency. The book’s dual purposes are to examine the Zócalo as Mexico’s central site of performance and to unmask, without homogenizing, the official discourse regarding Mexico’s natives. This book will be of interest for students and scholars in theater studies, Mexican Studies, Cultural Geography, Latinx and Latin American Studies.

Author : Trevor Ngwane,Immanuel Ness,Luke Sinwell
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608467143

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Urban Revolt by Trevor Ngwane,Immanuel Ness,Luke Sinwell Pdf

How do individuals and organizations move beyond the boundaries of constitutional or legal constructs to challenge neoliberalism and capitalism? As major urban areas have become the principal sites of poor and working-class social upheaval in the early twenty-first century, the chapters in this book explore key cities in the Global South. Through detailed cases studies, Urban Revolt unravels the potential and limitations of urban social movements on an international level.

Author : Benjamin A. Bross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000527308

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Mexico City’s Zócalo by Benjamin A. Bross Pdf

This book presents a case study of one of Latin America’s most important and symbolic spaces, the Zócalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic events and corresponding morphological changes in the urban environment. It poses questions about how the identity of a place emerges, how it evolves and, why does it change? Mexico City’s Zócalo: A History of a Constructed Spatial Identity utilizes the history of a specific place, the Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución), to explain the emergence and evolution of Mexican identities over time. Starting from the pre-Hispanic period to present day, the work illustrates how the Zócalo reveals spatial manifestations as part of the larger socio-cultural zeitgeist. By focusing on the history of changes in spatial production – what Henri Lefebvre calls society’s "secretions" – Bross traces how cultural, social, economic, and political forces shaped the Zócalo’s spatial identity and, in turn, how the Zócalo shaped and fostered new identities in return. It will be a fascinating read for architectural and urban historians investigating Latin America.

Author : Brianna I. Wiens,Michelle MacArthur,Shana MacDonald,Milena Radzikowska
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9781666913521

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Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance by Brianna I. Wiens,Michelle MacArthur,Shana MacDonald,Milena Radzikowska Pdf

Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies explores how digital feminists use the long-standing tactics of storytelling to counter the dominant narratives of white supremacy, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and the intersecting oppressions that accompany such structures, both online and offline.

Author : Jacques Galinier,Antoinette Molinié
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781492001683

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The Neo-Indians by Jacques Galinier,Antoinette Molinié Pdf

The Neo-Indians is a rich ethnographic study of the emergence of the neo-Indian movement—a new form of Indian identity based on largely reinvented pre-colonial cultures and comprising a diverse group of people attempting to re-create purified pre-colonial indigenous beliefs and ritual practices without the contaminating influences of modern society. There is no full-time neo-Indian. Both indigenous and non-indigenous practitioners assume Indian identities only when deemed spiritually significant. In their daily lives, they are average members of modern society, dressing in Western clothing, working at middle-class jobs, and retaining their traditional religious identities. As a result of this part-time status the neo-Indians are often overlooked as a subject of study, making this book the first anthropological analysis of the movement. Galinier and Molinié present and analyze four decades of ethnographic research focusing on Mexico and Peru, the two major areas of the movement’s genesis. They examine the use of public space, describe the neo-Indian ceremonies, provide analysis of the ceremonies’ symbolism, and explore the close relationship between the neo-Indian religion and tourism. The Neo-Indians will be of great interest to ethnographers, anthropologists, and scholars of Latin American history, religion, and cultural studies.

Author : Olof Kjell Oscar Ohlson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666909388

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Mexico's Rebellious Afterlives by Olof Kjell Oscar Ohlson Pdf

Mexico's Rebellious Afterlives: Armed Uprisings and Activism in the Narco War examines Mexican activists’ mobilizations against the state, capitalist, and criminal violence in the narco epoch.

Author : Ayşe Gül Altınay,María José Contreras,Marianne Hirsch,Jean Howard,Banu Karaca,Alisa Solomon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231549974

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Women Mobilizing Memory by Ayşe Gül Altınay,María José Contreras,Marianne Hirsch,Jean Howard,Banu Karaca,Alisa Solomon Pdf

Women Mobilizing Memory, a transnational exploration of the intersection of feminism, history, and memory, shows how the recollection of violent histories can generate possibilities for progressive futures. Questioning the politics of memory-making in relation to experiences of vulnerability and violence, this wide-ranging collection asks: How can memories of violence and its afterlives be mobilized for change? What strategies can disrupt and counter public forgetting? What role do the arts play in addressing the erasure of past violence from current memory and in creating new visions for future generations? Women Mobilizing Memory emerges from a multiyear feminist collaboration bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, and activists from Chile, Turkey, and the United States. The essays in this book assemble and discuss a deep archive of works that activate memory across a variety of protest cultures, ranging from seemingly minor acts of defiance to broader resistance movements. The memory practices it highlights constitute acts of repair that demand justice but do not aim at restitution. They invite the creation of alternative histories that can reconfigure painful pasts and presents. Giving voice to silenced memories and reclaiming collective memories that have been misrepresented in official narratives, Women Mobilizing Memory offers an alternative to more monumental commemorative practices. It models a new direction for memory studies and testifies to a continuing hope for an alternative future.

Author : Lorenzo Cini,Donatella della Porta,César Guzmán-Concha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030757540

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Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism by Lorenzo Cini,Donatella della Porta,César Guzmán-Concha Pdf

This book inquires into the global wave of student mobilizations that have arisen in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2008, accounting for their historical and sociological significance. More specifically, its eleven chapters explore the role of students as political actors: their ability to build effective organizations, to make political alliances with other actors, and to win public consensus, as well as their impact on cultural, political, and policy outcomes. To do so, the volume examines case studies in England, Chile, South Africa, Quebec, and Hong Kong, covering Europe, Africa, Asia, and North and Latin America. Grouped into two major sections, the collection covers the organizational structures of student movements and their alliances and outcomes. Ultimately, this volume examines the understudied political aspects of student unrest, exploring how student mobilizations—driven by indebtedness, precariousness, the corporatization of the university, and other issues—correspond to larger processes of change with wider implications in society.

Author : Thomas Benjamin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292708822

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La Revolución by Thomas Benjamin Pdf

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Author : Jacques Galinier,Antoinette Molinié
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607322740

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The Neo-Indians by Jacques Galinier,Antoinette Molinié Pdf

The Neo-Indians is a rich ethnographic study of the emergence of the neo-Indian movement—a new form of Indian identity based on largely reinvented pre-colonial cultures and comprising a diverse group of people attempting to re-create purified pre-colonial indigenous beliefs and ritual practices without the contaminating influences of modern society. There is no full-time neo-Indian. Both indigenous and non-indigenous practitioners assume Indian identities only when deemed spiritually significant. In their daily lives, they are average members of modern society, dressing in Western clothing, working at middle-class jobs, and retaining their traditional religious identities. As a result of this part-time status the neo-Indians are often overlooked as a subject of study, making this book the first anthropological analysis of the movement. Galinier and Molinié present and analyze four decades of ethnographic research focusing on Mexico and Peru, the two major areas of the movement’s genesis. They examine the use of public space, describe the neo-Indian ceremonies, provide analysis of the ceremonies’ symbolism, and explore the close relationship between the neo-Indian religion and tourism. The Neo-Indians will be of great interest to ethnographers, anthropologists, and scholars of Latin American history, religion, and cultural studies.

Author : Miles V. Rodríguez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780197558102

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Movements After Revolution by Miles V. Rodríguez Pdf

Movements After Revolution is a history of the people's movements in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 that brought together industrial workers and rural communities to fight for a vast array of demands and diverse forms of justice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Moden und Styles
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783200023758

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Vienna Zocalo - Critical Crafting as a postcolonial strategy by Anonim Pdf

Author : June C. Nash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135957131

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Mayan Visions by June C. Nash Pdf

A significant work by one of anthropology's most important scholars, this book provides an introduction to the Chiapas Mayan community of Mexico, better known for their role in the Zapatista Rebellion.