Title & Author:

Tijuana dreaming : life and art at the global border / edited by Josh Kun and Fiamma Montezemolo ; with a foreword by Iain Chamber.

Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.

Description:

xix, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword : A line in the sand / Iain chambers -- Introduction : The factory of dream / Josh Kun and Fiamma Montezemolo -- Welcome tu Tijuana / Roberto Castillo -- Snapshots from and about a city named Tijuana / Humberto Félix Berumen -- Tijuanologies : an urban essay / Heriberto Yépez -- Globalization in Tijuana maquiladoras : using historical antecedents and migration to test globalization models / Kathryn Kopinak -- (Conversation with) Néstor García Canclini, on how Tijuana ceased to be the laboratory of postmodernity / Fiamma Montezemolo -- Postcards from the border : in Tijuana, revolución is an avenue / Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez -- Illicit acts of urbanism / René Peralta -- The transborder metropolis in question : the case of Tijuana and San Diego / Tito Alegría -- Practices of encroachment : urban waste moves southbound; illegal zoning seeps into North / Teddy Cruz -- Community of struggle : gender, violence, and resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border / Michelle Téllez -- La canción de Tijuana/The song of Tijuana / Guillermo Fadanelli -- ¿Todos somos ciudadanos? Artistic production and agency in Tijuana / Lucía Sanromán -- Bioethnography of an artist : Ingrid Hernández / Fiamma Montezemolo -- Borderline archaeology / Jesse Lerner -- Redefining Sodom : a latter-day vision of Tijuana / Jennifer Insley-Pruitt -- Crossfader playlist / Rafa Saavedra -- Counterculture, rockers, punks, new romantics, and mods in Tijuana / Ejival -- Borderline ghosts : from Touch of evil to Maquilapolis, city of factories / Tarek Elhaik -- The kidnapped city / Josh Kun -- The line / Luis Humberto Crosthwaite.

Summary:

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. Josh Kun is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California Publisher's note.

ISBN:

9780822352815 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822352818 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822352907 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822352907 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Arts and society Mexico Tijuana (Baja California)
Arts et société Mexique Tijuana (Basse-Californie)
Arts and society.
Economic history.
Emigration and immigration Social aspects.
Intellectual life.
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Intellectual life.
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Economic conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration Social aspects.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine Émigration et immigration Aspect social.
Mexico Tijuana (Baja California)
North America Mexican-American Border Region.

Added entries:

Kun, Josh.
Montezemolo, Fiamma.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283159
Call No.: BIB 221189
Status: Available