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Three Types of Traffic in Tijuana: Heteronomy at the Mexico-US Border

Rihan Yeh
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 441–464.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6912127
Published: 01 September 2018
...Rihan Yeh In Tijuana, across the US-Mexico border from San Diego, California, transnational flows precipitate anxieties over autonomous agency. This essay explores how these anxieties afflict not just individual “I”s but the city’s “we”s as well. Due to pressures associated with different types...
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From National Capital to Global Capital: Urban Change in Mexico City

Néstor García Canclini
Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 207–213.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-207
Published: 01 January 2000
...Néstor García Canclini © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Néstor García Canclini teaches anthropology and urban culture at the Universidad Autonomia Metropolitana in Mexico City. Among his many works is the recent Ciudad de los viajeros (1996). Borja, Jordi, and Manuel...
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Times of Crisis: Historicity, Sacrifice, and the Spectacle of Debacle in Mexico City

Claudio Lomnitz
Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 127–148.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-127
Published: 01 January 2003
...Claudio Lomnitz © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Claudio Lomnitz is a professor of history and anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism (2001). Times of Crisis...
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Modes of Citizenship in Mexico

Claudio Lomnitz
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 269–293.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-269
Published: 01 January 1999
...Claudio Lomnitz Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Modes of Citizenship in Mexico Claudio Lomnitz One of the first cultural accounts of citizenship in Latin America was O Roberto da Matta’s (1979) effort...
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Aeolian Extractivism and Community Wind in Southern Mexico

Cymene Howe, Dominic Boyer
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 215–235.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427427
Published: 01 May 2016
... to mitigate climate change and promote collaborative energy production, such as community-owned wind parks. Even when states adopt bold energy transition targets, as Mexico has done, the methods of transition can be deeply problematic. 2016 Anthropocene Mexico politics renewable energy wind power...
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Allá in the Mix: Mexican Sonideros and the Musical Politics of Migrancy

Josh Kun
Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 533–555.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2896219
Published: 01 September 2015
...Josh Kun This essay focuses on the contemporary migrant musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos. Operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border, sonidos use the DJ mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the United States and Mexico...
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Profits and Predation in the Human Bioeconomy

Ruben Andersson
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 413–439.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6912115
Published: 01 September 2018
... of financial and other value from life itself. Visiting the US-Mexico and Euro-African borders in turn, it considers biotechnologies for surveillance and detection; detention and “warehousing”; and risk strategies for deterring migration, in each case delving into the political economy of human vitality...
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“We're Mexican Too”: Publicity and Status at the International Line

Rihan Yeh
Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 465–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2009-004
Published: 01 September 2009
...Rihan Yeh A series of ethnographic examples, all related to a demonstration at the International Port of Entry connecting Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego, California, show the importance for Tijuana's public sphere of the distinction between documented and undocumented status vis-à-vis the United...
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The Narco Uncanny

Shaylih Muehlmann
Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 327–348.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8090101
Published: 01 May 2020
...Shaylih Muehlmann This article analyzes the unease created in northern Mexico by the prevalence of “narco-accusations,” which single out individuals suspected of being drug traffickers. The official discourse to justify the Mexican government’s unwillingness to investigate the majority...
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The Border: Infrastructure of the Global

Harel Shapira
Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 249–260.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2020584
Published: 01 March 2013
...Harel Shapira This essay explores the ways residents in southern Arizona are experiencing and responding to the militarization of the United States – Mexico border. By focusing on the local level, the essay examines an emergent border politics that focuses neither on immigrants nor the economy...
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The Billboard Campaign: The Los Alamos Study Group and the Nuclear Public Sphere

Joseph Masco, Joseph Masco
Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 487–498.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-17-3-487
Published: 01 September 2005
...Joseph Masco; Joseph Masco © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Joseph Masco is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post–Cold War New Mexico. Masco, Joseph...
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State Calculations and the Political Promise of Replication

Diana Graizbord
Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 331–342.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10742495
Published: 01 September 2023
... replication through a highly ritualized set of practices that go beyond the norms of transparency of other state agencies or the academic worlds that inspired them. Consider, for example, the practices of replication that accompany the yearly calculation of Mexico's poverty figures. About a week before...
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Fissures in Contemporary Mexican Nationalism

Claudio Lomnitz
Public Culture (1996) 9 (1): 55–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9-1-55
Published: 01 January 1996
... , Alan . 1994. “Popular Culture and the Revolutionary State in Mexico 1910–1940.” Hispanic American Historical Review 74 ( 3 ): 393 -444. Lomnitz , Claudio . 1982. Evolución de una sociedad rural. Mexico: Sepochentas. Lomnitz , Claudio . 1992. Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture...
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Contributors

Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 223–224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-19-1-223
Published: 01 January 2007
... at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires. His publications include Democracy in Latin America, 1760 – 1900, vol. 1, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru (2003). He is currently completing the second volume, on Argentina and Cuba...
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On Monolingual Fears

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 425–432.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-003
Published: 01 September 2007
... expression hallazgos de catedráticos (professors’ findings) became hexádegos de cadeirádegos in nationalist Gallego — a nonsense. Equally, in late-nineteenth-century Mexico, the dandy Manuel Guitiérrez Nájera, el Duque Job, called...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 171–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-20-1-171
Published: 01 January 2008
.... Claudio Lomnitz works on culture and politics in Mexico and in the Americas. His books include Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in Mexican National Space (1992); Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nation- alism...
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Drones as “Atmospheric Policing”: From US Border Enforcement to the LAPD

Caren Kaplan, Andrea Miller
Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 419–445.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7532679
Published: 01 September 2019
... aerial systems US-Mexico border In the space of less than twenty years, drones have become ubiquitous components of the security infrastructures that produce and police territories and borders of all kinds—from national dividing lines to the more scattered or almost imperceptible spatial relations...
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The Social Disappeared: Genealogy, Global Circulations, and (Possible) Uses of a Category for the Bad Life

Gabriel Gatti
Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 25–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816281
Published: 01 January 2020
... . Fregoso Rosa-Linda . 2017 . “ Las muertas en vida de México .” In Desapariciones: Usos locales, circulaciones globales , edited by Gatti Gabriel , 119 – 40 . Bogotá : Siglo del Hombre-Uniandes . Gatti Gabriel . 2011 . “ De un continente al otro: El desaparecido transnacional, la...
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Anything but the People

Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo
Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 265–269.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-002
Published: 01 May 2006
..., the former residence of the ill- fated emperor Maximilian and, before that, the last fortress to fall at the gates of Mexico City during the American invasion of 1847. It is an eminently public place, but certainly not a place of open public access; it is a historical monument towering over the center...
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The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras

Melissa W. Wright
Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 453–473.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-453
Published: 01 September 1999
... -107. Elson , Diane , and Ruth Pearson, eds. 1989 . Women's employment and multinationals in Europe . Basingstoke, England: Macmillan. Fernandez-Kelly , Maria Patricia . 1983 . For we are sold, I and my people: Women and industry in Mexico's frontier . Albany: State University of New...
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