Fragmented lives, assembled parts
Lugo, Alejandro, 1962-
Fragmented lives, assembled parts culture, capitalism, and conquest at the U.S.-Mexico border / [electronic resource] : Alejandro Lugo. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008. - xiii, 323 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-301) and index.
Sixteenth-century conquests (1521-1598) and their postcolonial border legacies -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán have to do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial subjectivities -- Culture, class, and gender in late twentieth-century Ciudad Juárez -- Maquiladoras, gender, and culture change -- The political economy of tropes, culture, and masculinity inside an electronics factory -- Border inspections : inspecting the working-class life of maquiladora workers on the U.S-Mexico border -- Culture, class, and union politics : the daily struggle for chairs inside a sewing factory in the larger context of the working day -- Women, men, and "gender" in feminist anthropology : lessons from northern Mexico's maquiladoras -- Alternating imaginings -- Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA880093 bnb
Uk
Offshore assembly industry--Employees--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)--Social conditions.
Electronic books.
HD8039.O332 / M61584 2008eb
331.700972/16
Fragmented lives, assembled parts culture, capitalism, and conquest at the U.S.-Mexico border / [electronic resource] : Alejandro Lugo. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008. - xiii, 323 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-301) and index.
Sixteenth-century conquests (1521-1598) and their postcolonial border legacies -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán have to do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial subjectivities -- Culture, class, and gender in late twentieth-century Ciudad Juárez -- Maquiladoras, gender, and culture change -- The political economy of tropes, culture, and masculinity inside an electronics factory -- Border inspections : inspecting the working-class life of maquiladora workers on the U.S-Mexico border -- Culture, class, and union politics : the daily struggle for chairs inside a sewing factory in the larger context of the working day -- Women, men, and "gender" in feminist anthropology : lessons from northern Mexico's maquiladoras -- Alternating imaginings -- Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA880093 bnb
Uk
Offshore assembly industry--Employees--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)--Social conditions.
Electronic books.
HD8039.O332 / M61584 2008eb
331.700972/16