The Social Geographies of Mexico

- Chapter Outline

- Why Study Mexico?

- Social Relations, Society, and Space: What Is Social Geography?

- Indigenous Mexico

- Indigenous Civilizations

- Indigenous Technology

- Mestizaje

- Indigenous Identity and Mestizaje

- 20th- and 21st-Century Mexico

- La Dictádura Perfecta

- Shifts from PRI Economics to Neoliberalism

- Zapatismo

- Multicultural Mexico?

- Methods and Book Online

- Chapter 2: Shrines of the Times: The Social Geographies of Contested Space in Tepito and the Historic Center of Mexico City

- Chapter 3: Identity and Place: The Social Geographies in the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca

- Chapter 4: The Social Geographies of Tijuana: Urbanization at the U.S.–Mexico Border

- Chapter 5: In the Dumps: The Social Geographies of Trash

- Chapter 6: Zoque Indigenous-Produced Space: Social Geographies of Los Chimalapas

- Who Is This Book For?

- How to Use this Book

- Suggested Readings

2. Shrines of the Times: The Social Geographies of Contested Space in Tepito and the Historic Center of Mexico City

- Chapter Outline

- A Brief History of Mexico City

- What Is La Santa Muerte?

- Santa Muerte Worshippers in the Tepito Neighborhood

- Rapid Urbanization and Economic Shifts from ISI to Neoliberalism

- The Implosion of ISI

- Vignette: Migration, Emigration, and Neoliberalism

- The Production of the Informal Economy

- Coping with Neoliberalism

- Saving the Historic Center? But from Whom and for Whom? El Programa de Rescate del Centro Histórico

- The Appropriation or Rebranding of Tepito

- The Appropriation of Urban Space through Street Vending, Worship, and Food: Día de los Muertos in Tepito at Number 12 Alfarería Street

- Neoliberal Success?

- Conclusion

- Discussion Questions

- Suggested Readings

3. Identity and Place: The Social Geographies in the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca

- Singing the National Anthem in Mexico City

- Where Is the Costa Chica Today?

- Regions in Oaxaca and Guerrero

- Africans in Mexico

- Vignette: Geography Matters: Human–Environment–Diasporic Interactions and Environmental Determinism

- Afromexicanos of La Costa Chica: A Legendary History

- Mestizaje–Raza Cosmica

- Identity and Regions

- Indigeneity and the Emergent Afromexicano Civil Society

- From Indigenous Autonomy to Black Recognition

- Fissures between Place and Identity

- Does Getting Counted Count? Economic and Social Development in the Costa Chica

- Discussion Questions

- Suggested Readings

4. The Social Geographies of Tijuana: Urbanization at the U.S.–Mexico Border

- Migration, Irregular Settlements and Neighborhood Formation

- Introduction

- Where Is Tijuana?

- Tijuana’s Topography and Its Impacts on the Environment

- A City Shaped from Both Sides

- Vice Tourism and Urban Expansion

- Social Geographies of Housing in Tijuana: Irregular Settlements

- PRONAF and Geographies of Uneven Urbanization

- Border City Morphology

- The Border Industrialization Program (BIP) and Urbanization

- A Cosmopolitan Mexican City: Demographics and Economic Diversification

- Tijuanenses Embody the Social Geographies of Music and Gastronomy

- Tijuana Music

- Tijuana Gastronomy

- The Mexican Dream in Tijuana?

- Discussion Questions

- Suggested Readings

5. In the Dumps: The Social Geographies of Trash

- Waiting on the Trash Man

- Chapter Outline

- Who Are the Pepenadores?

- Demographics and Garbage

- Conceptualizing the Value of Garbage

- A Day in the Life of Mexico City Garbage

- Vignette: The Temporal–Social Construction of Value

- Pepenador Efficiency, the Informal Economy, and the Social Structure of Urban Mexico

- Pepenadores, Caciques—Client Patron Relations, and the Social Structure of Urban Mexico

- The Neoliberalization of Garbage

- Environmental Activism and the Closing of Bordo-Poniente Landfill

- The Professionalization of Caciqusmo: la Confederación Nacional de Industriales de Metales y Recicladores (CONIMER)

- Alpuyeca Does Not Want Mexico City Trash

- Can La Pepena Be Included in Mexico City’s Waste Management Transformation?

- Discussion Questions

- Suggested Reading

6. Zoque Indigenous-Produced Space: Social Geographies of Los Chimalapas

- Introduction

- The Second Most Remote Region in All of Mexico

- Reverse Settler Colonialism

- State Government Structure, Customs and Traditions, and Communal Property Communities in Los Chimalapas

- Structures in Los Chimalapas

- Geography, Resources, and Politics in Los Chimalapas

- Confrontation and Cooptation in Los Chimalapas

- The Conflation of Nature and Society in Los Chimalapas

- Ethnospatial Politics

- Conclusion

- Discussion Questions

- Suggested Resource