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Book SynopsisProducing Mayaland Producing Mayaland powerfully captures the extent to which the abstract spaces of global capital are infused with colonial fantasies, haunted by uncanny ruins, and plagued by monstrous manifestations of ecological breakdown. Through a compelling account of the maquiladora industry in the Yucatan Peninsula, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro vividly conveys the inextricable entanglements of the capitalist production of space and the coloniality of power.
Japhy Wilson, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
In Producing Mayaland, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro finds a unique voice to narrate the contested relations between everyday life, urbanization and the uneven development of capitalism in Motul, Yucatán, Mexico. The remarkable insights of this work emerge from her innovative synthesis of critical urban theory, anticolonialism and magical realism' all grounded in an imaginative appropriation of Henri Lefebvre's oeuvre on the prod
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‘Producing Mayaland powerfully captures the extent to which the abstract spaces of global capital are infused with colonial fantasies, haunted by uncanny ruins, and plagued by monstrous manifestations of ecological breakdown. Through a compelling account of the maquiladora industry in the Yucatan Peninsula, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro vividly conveys the inextricable entanglements of the capitalist production of space and the coloniality of power.’
Japhy Wilson, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
‘In Producing Mayaland, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro finds a unique voice to narrate the contested relations between everyday life, urbanization and the uneven development of capitalism in Motul, Yucatán, Mexico. The remarkable insights of this work emerge from her innovative synthesis of critical urban theory, anticolonialism and ‘magical realism’—all grounded in an imaginative appropriation of Henri Lefebvre’s oeuvre on the production of space.'
Kanishka Goonewardena, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
Table of Contents
Series Editors’ Preface vi
List of Abbreviations vii
List of Figures and Table ix
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
2 Postcolonizing Lefebvre? 30
3 Maquiladora Paradise 47
4 The Magical Maya 77
5 The Zone 103
6 The Maquila Leftovers 125
7 Understanding the Urban in/from Yucatán 168
8 Living with the Maquila 179
9 Conclusion 209
Bibliography 221
Index 250
