Postborder city : cultural spaces of Bajalta California / edited by Michael Dear and Gustavo Leclerc ; with contributions by Jo-Anne Berelowitz ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dear, M. J. (Michael J.)

Leclerc, Gustavo.

Berelowitz, Jo-Anne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Cities and towns.

Arts and society.

Intellectual life.

California, Southern--Intellectual life.

California, Southern.

Baja California (Mexico : State)--Intellectual life.

Baja California (Mexico : State).

Arts and society--California, Southern.

Arts and society--Mexico--Baja California (State).

Mexico--Baja California (State).

California, Southern--Relations--Mexico--Baja California (State).

Southern California.

Relations.

Mexico.

Baja California (Mexico : State)--Relations--California, Southern.

Cities and towns--California, Southern.

Cities and towns--Mexico--Baja California (State).

Social change--California, Southern.

Social change--Mexico--Baja California (State).

Physical Description:

xviii, 306 pages, 15 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, in association with the Southern California Studies Center of the University of Southern California, 2003.

Summary:

The vast metropolis stretching from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south heralds a new form -- the postborder city. Comprised of both Baja California (Mexico) and Alta California (Southern California), "Bajalta California" is now a milieu of constantly shifting and intersecting geographies, economies, and cultures. While cross-border exchange has existed for well over a century, in recent years the accelerating currents of cultural and economic globalization have hastened the emergence of this transnational megalopolis. Postborder City is an interdisciplinary investigation of the hybrid culture on both sides of the increasingly fluid U.S-Mexico border, spanning the disciplines of art, film studies, art history, urban planning, geography, and Latina/o and American studies.

In their exploration of this emergent postborder movement, Dear and Leclerc focus in particular on the relationships between urbanization and contemporary cultural production. Postborder City concludes with the idea that the "transcendental, transnational aesthetic" being produced within contemporary Bajalta holds the promise for a wider reflection of the politics of cultural representation in an increasingly post-national world.

Contents:

Introduction : the postborder condition : art and urbanism in Bajalta California / Michael Dear and Gustavo Leclerc

"Where are you going to be worthier?" (the border and the postborder) / Carlos Monsiváis

Peopling Alta California / Phoebe S. Kropp and Michael Dear

Peopling Baja California / Héctor Manuel Lucero

Global Tijuana : the seven ecologies of the border / Lawrence A. Herzog

Border art since 1965 / Jo-Anne Berelowitz

Border representations : border cinema and independent video / Norma Iglesias

"Where am I at home?" : the interplay of national, local, and imaginative space / Richard Cándida Smith

Hybridities and histories : imaging the rim / David Palumbo-Liu

Rewriting cultural studies in the borderlands

Néstor García Canclini.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415944198

0415944201

OCLC:

51613852