Week 2 August 31st:  historical #1 -- preColumbian, Course Introduction

Week 3 Sept. 7th:  historical background #2 -- Colonial and Siglo XIX

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

Reader AVAILABLE ON FRIDAY materials listed in purple: Available under Mutersbaugh at Johnny Print, 547 S. Limestone Between Alfalfa's and the Pizza Hut (across from the business school). Ready

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

  Week 3 Discussion Questions

Week 4 Sept. 14th: history 2 revolution

Class Texts

Womack: Rebellion in Chiapas pp 97-104

Online: Zapata's Plan de Ayala

Reader:

Foster, Lynn. 1997. A Brief History of Mexico

Chapter 9: The Revolution of 1910

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

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 4 discussion paper

Week 5 Sept. 21st : People of Mexico: Mestizaje, Race & Communality

Class Texts:

Juan Rulfo The Burning Plain

Macario

No Dogs Bark

Tell Then Not to Kill Me

Online:

Stephen L, 2003, 'Sexuality and gender in Zapotec Oaxaca' Latin American Perspectives

Mestizaje

Mestizaje Images: Guadalupe and Juan Diego

Mestizaje Images: Cuadro de Castas

Mexican State Rituals

Week 5 discussion questions:

Gutmann, Meanings of Macho:
Chapters 3-6, pp. 51-172

online:

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

Week 6 discussion questions:

Week 7 Oct. 5th: Development, Politics & Rebellion: Bretton Woods to Siglo XXI

Class Text: Womack Rebellion in Chiapas 148-218

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.

Online:

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:

Week 7 Discussion Questions

Week 8 Oct. 12th: Agrarian TransitionsWeek

Mexican Agricultural Statistics

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

They gave us the land

Hill of the Comadres

Luvina

The Burning Plain

Class Text: Womack Rebellion in Chiapas 105-119

Fox Offsetting the Iron Law of Oligarchy: The ebb and flow of leadership accountability in a regional peasant organization

Reader:

Otero, Gerardo. 1999. Farewell to the Peasantry? (Westview: Boulder)
Chapter 3: Agrarian Reform: Capitalism, the State and Neoliberalism pp. 33-55.

Week 8 discussion questions

Week 9 Oct. 19th: 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 9 discussion questions

Week 10 Oct. 26th: NAFTA, Neoliberalism & the Zapatistas

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 10 discussion questions

Week 11: NO CLASS: ELECTIONS NOV 2nd

Week 12 Nov. 9th: 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 12 discussion questions

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 discussion questions

 

Week 15 Nov. 30th: EcoFutures: Env Services, Organic Coffee and Agrarian Politics

Moguel P, Toledo VM, 1999, “Biodiversity conservation in traditional coffee systems of Mexico” 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

Week 15 discussion questions

Week 16 December 7th (Dead Week): 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.

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

Week 16 discussion questions

Week 17 Dec. 14th: Finals Week

Class Presentations: Powerpoint Presentations on Research Topics

  One-Hour Final Essay Exam