Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico
In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcultures from hip-hop to punk and adopt creative organizing practices to create meaningful channels of participation in local social and political life. In the process, young people remake urban space and construct new identities in ways that directly challenge elite visions of their city and essentialist notions of what it means to be indigenous in the contemporary era. Cartographies of Youth Resistance is essential reading for students and scholars interested in youth politics and culture in Mexico, social movements, urban studies, and migration.
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Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico
In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcultures from hip-hop to punk and adopt creative organizing practices to create meaningful channels of participation in local social and political life. In the process, young people remake urban space and construct new identities in ways that directly challenge elite visions of their city and essentialist notions of what it means to be indigenous in the contemporary era. Cartographies of Youth Resistance is essential reading for students and scholars interested in youth politics and culture in Mexico, social movements, urban studies, and migration.
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Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico

Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico

by Maurice Rafael Magaña
Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico

Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico

by Maurice Rafael Magaña

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Overview

In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcultures from hip-hop to punk and adopt creative organizing practices to create meaningful channels of participation in local social and political life. In the process, young people remake urban space and construct new identities in ways that directly challenge elite visions of their city and essentialist notions of what it means to be indigenous in the contemporary era. Cartographies of Youth Resistance is essential reading for students and scholars interested in youth politics and culture in Mexico, social movements, urban studies, and migration.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520344624
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/17/2020
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 234
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Maurice Rafael Magaña is a sociocultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms and Organizations

Introduction • Rethinking Social Movement Temporality and Spatiality through Counterspace and Urban Youth Culture
1 • Building Youth Counterspaces, Horizontal Political Cultures, and Emergent Identities in the Oaxacan Social Movement of 2006
2 • Urban Autonomy, Indigenous Anarchisms, and Other Political Genealogies for the 2006 Generation
3 • Urban Youth Collectives as Laboratories for Constructing and Spatializing Horizontal Politics in Post-2006 Oaxaca
4 • Networking Counterspaces, Constellations of Resistance, and the Politics of Rebel Aesthetics
5 • Rebel Aesthetics: Giving Form to the 2006 Generation’s Liberationist Imagination through Street Art, Punk, and Hip-Hop

Conclusion • Shifting Cartographies of (Youth) Resistance
Notes
Works Cited 
Index
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