The Mexican Studies Research Collective is broadly conceived as a space for academic dialogue, exchange, and collaboration in the fields of Mexican literary and cultural studies.

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  • Border Biomes: Ecological Imaginaries of Mexico’s Edges

    by Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez Vanderbilt University Press What effect do heavily fortified national borders have on the natural environments that surround them? In Border Biomes, Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez explores this question by analyzing contemporary Mexican, Latinx, and Indigenous literature that has tried to highlight the human and ecological toll of Mexico’s borders with…

  • Fugarse de época: cultura y precariedad en México

    by Martin Adrian De Mauro Rucovsky Editorial Universitaria de Villa María Un grupo de punks caminan sin rumbo. Costureras que organizan su furia desde las sombras. Un terremoto sacude la Ciudad de México. Una mucama de hotel vive donde trabaja. Los años dos mil y el avance de la tecnología. ¿De qué modo se conectan…

  • Poverty and Antitheatricality: Form and Formlessness in Latin American Literature, Art, and Theory

    by Stephen Buttes University of Delaware Press Poverty and Antitheatricality argues that many major analytical approaches today misunderstand the problem of poverty by emphasizing its status as an experience. These experiential models transform poverty from a specific socioeconomic status lived in a particular historical sequence into a transhistorical presence of marginality that is not only…

  • Imperial Decay: Literature, Autonomy, and the End of Modernization in the Americas

    by Emilio Sauri Northwestern University Press Demonstrating how art and literature remain vital to alternative imaginaries beyond the power of imperialism and modernization Imperial Decay: Literature, Autonomy, and the End of Modernization in the Americas employs a dynamic, comparative approach to contemporary literature and visual art, showing how fiction, photography, poetry, and film from Latin…

  • Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations: Resistance, Catharsis, Transformation

    by David S. Dalton Rutgers University Press Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations analyzes Mexico’s rich history of digital activism, which is among the most vibrant of any country in the Hispanic world. The book begins with a discussion of the Zapatista uprising of 1994—which is widely understood as the first digital social movement in…

  • The Power to Harm and Heal: Intercultural Medicine in Modern Mexico

    by Joshua Mentanko University of North Carolina Press Histories of Indigenous healing and Western medicine in Chiapas In the mid-twentieth century, Mexico became a hub for global experiments in public health and social science. Best known as the birthplace of the Green Revolution, Mexico also pioneered the first large-scale effort to train community health workers…

  • Deadly Divide: How Insects, Pathogens, and People Defied the US-Mexico Border

    by Mary E. Mendoza University of North Carolina Press The first environmental history to chronicle the construction of race, fencing, and policing at the US-Mexico border When most people picture the US-Mexico border, they think of walls, fences, concrete, and wire. But in this first history of how the environment influenced physical boundary-making between the…

  • Mexican Jesuits Write the History of the Americas: Reason, Rights, and Revolution (1767-1824)

    by Luis Ramos Voltaire Foundation & Liverpool University Press This book examines how three exiled Jesuits from colonial Mexico—Rafael Landívar, Francisco Clavijero, and Pedro Márquez—shaped the discourse of continental emancipation from Spain. By considering their works in relation to critical debates about the root causes of the international expulsion and suppression of the Jesuits and…

  • The Rise of Necro/Narco Citizenship: Belonging and Dying in the Southwest North American Region

    by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez The University of Arizona Press Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez’s latest work, The Rise of Necro/Narco Citizenship investigates the intricate and often harrowing dynamics that define the borderlands between the United States, Mexico, and beyond. This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive cultural, economic, social, and political-ecological analysis, illustrating how various forms of violence…

  • Falling to My Death: Vertical Rhetorics in Neoliberal Mexico

    by José Ángel Maldonado Clemson University Press In a book that combines memoir and cultural criticism of visual media, public rhetoric, and memory texts, José Ángel Maldonado reflects on the subjectivities he embodies—mestizo, epileptic, and exile—while engaging in a critique of the various popular texts he encounters while travelling through Mexico after living in the…

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