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This collection of essays explores how history is created, shared, and contested in urban and marginalized spaces by examining memory, displacement, resilience, and community-driven historical interventions across Mexico.
Bridging academic research with lived experiences, the book shows how public history is a powerful tool that both reflects on the past and projects more egalitarian futures of justice, representation, and cultural affirmation. Centred mainly around Mexico City, but also touching on the impact of migration at the northern border, it contributes to the debates around new forms of history construction and covers topics including territorial dispossession, deportation processes, the violence entailed in erased histories, and the reconfiguration of daily life during the COVID pandemic. Through diverse approaches and methodologies such as documentary film, digital storytelling, public art, museum interpretations, grassroots activism, and other collective or community work, it provides readers with valuable insights into how historical narratives shape identities, social movements, and public policies, as well as a deeper understanding of how communities engage with their past to reclaim space, resist erasure, and foster belonging.
This book is a useful resource for all upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in urban history, public history, cultural studies, anthropology, and Latin American studies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Memories of the Urban 1. Public History in the Making. The Pueblos Originarios of Mexico City: Memory, Territory, and Legal Status 2. Memories of the Urban Past: The Experience of Metropolitan Histories 3. Stories of El Parián: Public History as an Organizing Tool in Urban Community-Based Processes
Periphery and Erasure 4. Memory, Trauma, and Resilience: Stories of the 19S Earthquake 5. Periferia gráfica 6. Creating Memory and the Reimagining of the Edge of Tenochtitlan
Exclusion Beyond Mexico City 7. The Self-Taught Border Art of the Deported: Luis Sotero 8. Humanizing Deportation: An Archive of Migrant Knowledge 9. Unveiling Feminist Cartography in Yucatan: From the First Feminist Congress of 1916 to the First Women to Hold Elected Office in 1923
Re-Placing the Museum 10. Relic, Connection, Loss: Public History and Community Narratives in Mexico 11. From Praxis to Production: The Symbolic Displacements of Linguistic Patrimony in Mexico's Nineteenth Century 12. A Community Museum in the City: Heritage and Public Uses of the Past in Valle de Chalco Solidaridad
Intimate Spaces 13. Between Joy and Frailty: Minimal Stories of Dwelling in Mexico City 14. The Invisibles of the Arts: Stories of Performance Artists from Confinement 15. Stuck at Home: A Comic on Covid-19
Über den Autor / die Autorin
María Moreno Carranco is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at UAM-Cuajimalpa. Her research focuses on urban megaprojects, the impact of neoliberal globalization on contemporary cities, the effects of earthquakes on Mexico City's urban communities and shifts in urban living during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Akuavi Adonon Viveros is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at UAM-Cuajimalpa. Her research focuses on legal anthropology studies, ethno-racial classifications, national building narratives, urban and territorial memory.
Mario Barbosa Cruz is a Professor in the Department of Humanities at UAM-Cuajimalpa. His research focuses on social and urban history, history of labor, middle classes in Mexico, and the relationship between history and memory.
Maite Zubiaurre is a Professor in the Humanities at UCLA. She is the initiator and principal investigator of Forensic Empathy, a multi-pronged interdisciplinary endeavor that looks at migration, migrant death, the ecologies of migrant care, and material culture at the US-Mexico border. She is also an activist and a filmmaker.
