Postborder City - Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California

List of contents

Foreward - Selma Holo Introduction - Carlos Monsivais Part One: Regional Groundedness 1. The Postborder Condition - Michael Dear and Gustavo LeClerc Folio: Gallery of Postborder Artworks 2. Peopling Southern California - Phoebe Kropp and Michael Dear 3. Peopling Baja California - Hector Manuel Lucero Part Two: Regional Imaginations 4. Forty Years of Art in the San Diego-Tijuana Region - Jo-Anne Berelowitz 5. Border Representations in Film and Cultural Discourses - Norma Iglesias 6. Border Metropolis - Lawrence Herzog Part Three: Regional Hybridities 7. Where am I at Home - Richard Candida Smith 8. Borders/Hybrids - David Palumbo-Liu 9. Hybrid Cultures in Postborder Latin America - Nestor Garcia Canclini

About the author

Michael Dear is Professor of Geography and Director of the Southern California Studies Center at USC.

Gustavo LeClerc is partner and founding member of ADOBE LA (Artists, Architects and Designers Opening the Border Edge of Los Angeles) since 1992.

Summary

This title concerns the postborder metropolis of Bajalta, California, which stretches from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south. Immigrants flock to Southern California, while corporations are drawn to the low wage industry of the Mexican border towns.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael Dear (Editor), Dear Michael (Editor), Gustavo Leclerc (Editor), Leclerc Gustavo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780415944199
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94419-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 612 g
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Business & Economics / General, California, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Economic Geography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples