Category: On Mexico
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On March 22nd 1954, thousands of students from different schools arrived at the brand-new facilities of the Ciudad Universitaria [CU] in the southwest of Mexico…
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The following project is an ongoing experimental proposal that considers the need to incorporate small scale forums to reflect on themes around ecology and sustainability…
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In January 2023 a long awaited urban project was inagurated in Mexico City. An elevated pedestrian corridor that connects two sections of Chapultepec, one of…
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I am happy to share my latest research paper. It is called Cartographies of Infrastructural Imaginations: Mapping Ecological Utopias and Dystopias in the Global South.…
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“Calling this place ‘America’ is to name it after a stranger. ‘Turtle Island’ is the name given this continent by Native American based on creation…
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Don Juan and Doña Socorro: I met Don Juan and Doña Socorro in January 2012, during one of my PhD field trips to Mexico. Both were over 80 years old, and lived on the “Hill of…
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The year is 2021. Mexico City and its immediate surroundings have experienced a persistent ecocide on their lands and bodies of water for at least…
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Sustainable Orientalism. I have explored this concept since 2011. It has helped me to identify and expose discourses, representations, and institutions that separate the notion…