Week 2:  historical #1 -- preColumbian, Course Introduction

Week 3:  historical background #2 -- Colonial and Siglo XIX

 

Week 3 Discussion Questions

 

Class Text: Womack, Rebellion in Chiapas chapters 1-4, pp. 63-96

 

 

Addendum: Three Indigenous Maps from New Spain Dated ca. 1580

Karl Butzer; Barbara WilliamsAnnals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 82, No. 3, The Americas before and after 1492: Current Geographical Research. (Sep., 1992), pp. 536-542.

 

Spanish Colonization and Indian Property in Central Mexico, 1521-1620

Hanns Prem Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 82, No. 3, The Americas before and after 1492: Current Geographical Research. (Sep., 1992), pp. 444-459

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Reader materials listed in purple: Available in the Geography Foyer, in front of the Geography office 316 JH

Please make a copy of the entire reader and then return it As Soon As Possible for the next borrower: Only YOU can avoid the tragedy of the commons!!!!

Bazant, Jan. 1977. A Concise History of Mexico. London: Cambridge University Press.
            Independence: pp. 5-15, 18-19,
            Chapter 3 on Liberalism excerpts

 

Week 4: history 2 revolution

Week 4 discussion questions: see discussion portion of web site

login: mexico

password: zapata

(all lower case)

 

Class Texts

Womack: Rebellion in Chiapas pp 97-104

Azuela: The Underdogs Los de abajo

 

Reader in foyer of Geography Dept [3rd floor JH]:

Krauze, Enriqe. 1997  Mexico: Biography of Power (translated by Hank Heifetz). New York: HarperCollins.
            Chapt. 11 (Emiliano Zapata: The Born Anarchist), pp. 274-295.

 

Week 5: Development Practice and Politics: Bretton Woods to Siglo XXI

 

Week 5 discussion questions: see discussion portion of web site

login: mexico

password: zapata

(all lower case)

 

Class Text: Womack Rebellion in Chiapas 148-209

 

Berry, Albert., 1997, The Income Distribution Threat in Latin America Latin American Research Review
((Check out discussion and statistics for Mexico pages 20-23))
Gini Coefficient Defined:

 

 

Reader:

Bazant, Jan. 1977. A Concise History of Mexico. London: Cambridge University PressChapter 6: Social Reforms pp. 156-159, 176-193.

 

Bonfil Battala. Guillermo. 1996. México Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization (translated by Philip Dennis), Austin:         University of Texas Press.
            Chapter 7 [Our (Revolutionized) Modern Times], pp. 108-128.

 

Week 6: NAFTA, Neoliberalism, The State and the Zapatista Rebellion

 

 

Class Text: Womack Rebellion in Chiapas 1-60, 245-315

Zapatista Pages in English:

'Rough Guide'

Mexico Solidarity Network

Zapatista Women

Aubry, Andres and Angelica Inda. (1997). Who are the paramilitaries? Domíngo 28 December. Mexico City: La Jornada.

Chiapas Maps:

CIEPAC maps of the situation in Chiapas (an excellent overview)

Eco Map (General)

 


 

Week 7: Environment & Conservation

 

Auer M, Energy and environmental politics in post-corporatist Mexico POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL 29 (3): 437-455 2001

 

Young E    State intervention and abuse of the commons: Fisheries development in Baja California Sur, Mexico ANN ASSOC AM GEOGR 91 (2): 283-306 JUN 2001

 

Juarez, 2002, Ecological degradation, global tourism, and inequality: Maya interrpretations of the changing environment in Quintana Roo, Mexico HUM ORGAN 61 (2): 113-124

 

Week 8: Agrarian Transitions

 

Class Texts: Juan Rulfo The Burning Plain and Other Stories:

They gave us the land,

Hill of the Comadres,

Luvina

 

Class Text: Womack Rebellion in Chiapas 105-119

 

Reader (in foyer of Geography Dept [3rd floor JH]):

Otero, Gerardo. 1999. Farewell to the Peasantry? (Westview: Boulder)

 

Chapter 3: Agrarian Reform: Capitalism, the State and Neoliberalism pp. 33-55.

 

Chapter 4: Agrarian Transformations: Crisis and Differentiation pp. 56-73

 

Week 9:  Spring Break!!!!!!!!!!!!

Week 10: Urbanization

 

Excurra, Exequiel. 1996. Are Megacities Viable? A cautionary tale from Mexico City. Environment 38 p. 4-15, 26-31.

 

Moctezuma P Community-based organization and participatory planning in south-east Mexico City ENVIRON URBAN 13 (2): 117-133 OCT 2001

 

Reader

 

Ward, Peter. 1990. Mexico City London: Belhaven Press.
            Chapter 2: Urban growth and the appropriation of space p. 41-71, 76 (image),75 (image), 238-245.

 

Poniatowska, Elena. 1995 (1988 in Spanish). Nothing, Nobody: The voices of the Mexico City earthquake pages 48-51, 66-73, 82-83.

 

Week 11: Industrial Development:

 

1997 "Crossing the Factory Frontier: Gender, Place and Power in a Mexican maquiladora" Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography, 29:3, 278-302.

 

The health consequences of maquiladora work: Women on the US-Mexican border.; By: Guendelman, Sylvia; Silberg, Monica Jasis., American Journal of Public Health, Jan93, Vol. 83 Issue 1

 

FAT (Frente Autentico del Trabajo) web site: http://www.ueinternational.org/about.html

 

Mexico Labor News: March 2003

 

Week 12: The other half: micro-enterprise/informal economies

 

Class Text: Juan Rulfo The Burning Plain and Other Stories

'We are very poor'

 

Chibnik M The evolution of market niches in oaxacan woodcarving

ETHNOLOGY 39 (3): 225-242 SUM 2000

 

Carruthers DV, The politics and ecology of indigenous folk art in Mexico HUMAN ORGANIZATION, 60 (4): 356-366 WIN 2001

 

Parrado EA, Zenteno RM  Economic restructuring, financial crises, and women's work in Mexico SOC PROBL 48 (4): 456-477 2001

 

Week 13: Organic Coffee and Peasant Unions

 

Moguel P, Toledo VM, 1999, ³Biodiversity conservation in traditional coffee systems of Mexico² Conservation Biology 13 11-21

 

Bray DB, Sanchez JLP, Murphy EC, Social dimensions of organic coffee production in Mexico: Lessons for eco-labeling initiatives

SOC NATUR RESOUR 15 (5): 429-446 MAY-JUN 2002

 

 

Mutersbaugh, The Number is the Beast: A political economy of certified organic coffee and peasant unionism

 

 

 

One-Hour Exam, In-Class, Covering Weeks 2-12

Week 14: Transnational Migration: Aztlan

 

Class Text: Juan Rulfo The Burning Plain and Other Stories

'Paso del Norte'

 

Massey, D. S., Goldring, L. and J. Durand. (1994). Continuities in transnational migration: An analysis of nineteen Mexican communities American Journal of Sociology, 99(6), 1492-1533.

 

Hirsch JS  En el norte la mujer manda - Gender, generation, and geography in a Mexican transnational community   AM BEHAV SCI 42 (9): 1332-1349 JUN-JUL 1999

 

Kanaiaupuni, S. and K. M. Donato. (1999). Migradollars and mortality: The effects of migration on infant survival in Mexico. Demography, 36(3), 339-353.

Week 15: Borderlands

Hackenberg R and R Alvarez. 2001. Close-ups of Postnationalism: Reports from the US-Mexico Borderlands Human Organization 60(2):97-104.

 

Pisani, MJ, Yoskowitz, DW. 2002. The maid trade: Cross-border work in South Texas Social Science Quarterly 83(2):568-579

 

Sheridan, TE. 2001. Cows, condos, and the contested commons: The political ecology of ranching on the Arizona-Sonora borderlands Human Organization 60(2):141-152.

 

 

Pick, JB, Viswanathan, N, Hettrick, J. 2001. The US-Mexican borderlands region: a binational spatial analysis Social Science Journal 38(4):567-595.

(Pick, Viswanathan and Hettrick provides an overview of borderland statistical information for reference use)

 

Week 16: Political Transitions, Environment and Development: Whither Mexico?

 

Class Text: Womack Rebellion in Chiapas pages 316-370