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...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...

... and counterpublics . New York: Zone. lines and spheres “We’re Mexican Too”: Publicity and Status at the International Line Rihan Yeh The Public at the Line...

... and Ideology in Mexican National Space. Berkeley: University of California Press. Lomnitz , Claudio . 1994. “Decadence in Times of Globalization.” Cultural Anthropology 9 ( 2 ): 257 -267. Lomnitz , Claudio . 1995. “Ritual, Rumor and Corruption in the Constitution of Polity in Modern...

...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...

...Diana Graizbord Abstract This article examines how and to what effect the scientific ideal and practice of replication is adopted by a Mexican federal government agency charged with measuring poverty. The commitment to replication among state poverty experts is traced to their self‐conception...

... for U.S.–Mexican studies discussion paper, University of California, San Diego. Joseph , Miranda . 1998 . The performance of production and consumption. Social Text , no. 54 : 25 -62. Limas Hernández , A. 1998 . Desproteción ciudadana. El Diario de Ciudad Juárez , 16 July, 11A...

... the wife of so and so, member of the cabinet,” and so on. A similar dynamic has characterized modern Mexican citizenship. For instance, it has long been noted that in Mexico much of the censorship of the press has been...

..., Octavio Paz, who was by then one of Mexico’s leading lights, still located Mexican society on the brink of modernity.1 Even today polit- ical modernity is trumpeted as a recent arrival, born only with the “triumph of democracy” in the national elections of 2000. Mexico’s Prophets of the Advent...

...Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo Duke University Press 2006 Anything but the People Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo For once, the Mexican public received some good news. Last September, the press and television media announced the signing...

... for an official campaign against English terms in Mexican Spanish and requested that the growing number of U.S. entrepreneurs residing in Mexico City ought to learn Spanish, though they were, he said, “like Catalans: willing to 1. Henry...

... phase of the Mexican Revolution (1910 – 20). In the recent presidential election, leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador cast himself as a new Benito Juárez, the liberal president who struggled against Mexican conservatives and their French allies in the 1860s. In Chile, Michelle Bachelet...

... (Monsiváis 1984). Mexico’s population during this period concen- trated ever more in its cities: From 1900 to 1970, the percentage of Mexicans living in cities grew from 10 to 70 percent. Mexican state cultural policies responded by concentrating...

... . 1985 . “ Political Conflict and Land Tenure in the Mexican Isthmus of Tehuantepec .” Journal of Latin American Studies 17 , no. 2 : 179 – 200 . Boyer Dominic . 2014 . “ Energopower: An Introduction .” Anthropological Quarterly 87 , no. 2 : 309 – 34 . Cornelius Wayne...

... evaporated ( Lomnitz 2003 ). Neoliberal policy making, as well as the spread of neoliberal commonsense ( Leal 2016a ), have not provided a robust basis for a new national project. Tijuana is a direct effect of this historical collapse of the Mexican nation-state as a form anchoring individual aspirations...

... on an ethnographic video project about Mexican fieldworkers in Napa Valley. Public Culture Backus 2002 from the field Mindy Gross...

...Elena Climent © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Elena Climent is a Mexican artist who currently resides in Chicago. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibits in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. The work included here is part of her recent New York exhibition at Mary...

.... Josh Kun’s “ Allá in the Mix: Mexican Sonideros and the Musical Politics of Migrancy” examines how the mobility of Mexican DJ sound systems is shaping communities and mediating political activism. Kun’s wonderful essay explores the aesthetics of a distant space beyond visibility, a cross-border...

... family migrated to Chicago from rural Mexico a few years ago, he has been selling chewing gum along 18th Street in Pilsen, a large Mexican neighborhood. Blight, in fact, could be considered a kind of oficial recognition, a grudging admission that among blocks of factories...

... active nuclear weapons program on the planet is in the United States, and much of that nuclear infrastructure is located in New Mexico. For New Mexicans committed to disarmament and peace activism, the dilemma of the post–Cold War period...

.... New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Cazdyn, Eric. 2012. The Already Dead: The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Chappell, Ben. 2012. Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican Ameri- can Custom Cars. Austin: University of Texas Press. Chen...