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Book SynopsisTijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, featuring selections by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico.
Trade Review"
Tijuana Dreaming is important and inspirational: a study of the imaginary of a city that constantly reinvents itself. By documenting the artistic and social expressions of this border city, Josh Kun and Fiamma Montezemolo reveal what motivates us and what makes us proud as
tijuanenses: living in a city so full of inspiration and possibility."—
Ramón Amezcua, aka Bostich, of Nortec Collective
"This is an exciting and timely collection of cultural criticism and creative work. The selections are inspired, alert to a wide spectrum of practices and debates. Personal narratives, urban development, art, literature, photography, and architecture are just some of the matters covered in this rich and thought-provoking conversation, and the foreword by Iain Chambers provides the perfect framing device, linking Tijuana to global studies and critical inquiry."—
Roberto Tejada, author of
National Camera: Photography and Mexico's Image Environment“An eclectic anthology of critical cultural studies,
Tijuana Dreaming brings to life the tumultuous history of the border town’s shifting identity: the Prohibition-era booze-and-brothel magnet adjacent to San Diego, the late-twentieth-century booming free-trade zone of globalized assembly plants, and, most recently, the bloody site of today’s horrific drug-war violence. . . . [T]he volume’s overall high quality makes for a stimulating . . . read.” -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *
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Tijuana Dreaming is a significant anthology of recent writings on this city from the perspective of art, literature, architecture, music, and film. It is one of the most concentrated studies of the city to date. . . . The anthology also addresses a void in the existing literature on Tijuana through English translations of several texts by prominent Mexican writers, filling out gaps in the border-studies research that circulates in Anglo-American contexts.” -- Lee Rodney * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *
“This volume is an enriching and fascinating contribution to the study of Tijuana and the Mexico-US borderland, and would be of interest to any scholar with an interest in the culture and history of the region. It is a dynamic, engaging and timely collection of works which address key questions of identity and identification against the backdrop of cultural and sociohistorical processes.” -- Julia Banwell * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Foreword. A Line in the Sand / Iain Chambers ix
Introduction. The Factory of Dreams / Josh Kun and Fiamma Montzemolo 1
1. Welcome Tu Tijuana / Roberto Castillo 21
2. Snapshots from and about a City Named Tijuana / Humberto Félix Berumen 25
3. Tijuanologies: An Urban Essay / Heriberto Yépez 47
4. Globalization in Tijuana Maquiladoras: Using Historical Antecedents and Migration to Test Globalization Models / Kathryn Kopinak 71
5. (Conversation with) Néstor García Canclini, on How Tijuana Ceased to Be the Laboratory of Postmodernity / Fiamma Montezemolo 94
6. Postcards from the Border: In Tijuana, Revolución Is an Avenue / Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez 117
7. Illicit Acts of Urbanism / René Peralto 136
8. The Transborder Metropolis in Question: The Case of Tijuana and San Diego / Tito Alegría 148
9. Practices of Encroachment: Urban Waste Moves Southbound; Illegal Zoning Seeps into North / Teddy Cruz 175
10. Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border / Michelle Téllez 190
11. La Canción de Tijuana: The Song of Tijuana / Guillermo Fadanelli 212
12. ¿Todos somos ciudadanos?: Artistic Production and Agency in Tijuana / Lucía Sanromán 219
13. Bioethnograhy of an Artist: Ingrid Hernández / Fiamma Montezemolo 240
14. Borderline Archaeology / Jesse Lerner 264
15. Redefining Sodom: A Latter-Day Vision of Tijuana / Jennifer Insley-Pruitt 277
16. Crossfader Playlist / Rafa Saavedra 300
17. Counterculture, Rockers, Punks, New Romantics, and Mods in Tijuana / Ejival 329
18. Borderline Ghosts: From
Touch of Evil to
Maquilapolis: City of Factories / Tarek Elhaik 339
19. The Kidnapped City / Josh Kun 355
20. The Line / Luis Humberto Crosthwaite 370
Contributors 375
Index 381
