M Bianet Castellanos
Biographic Data
| ID | 140865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Bianet Castellanos |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Bianet |
| FAMILY NAME | Castellanos |
| SIGNATURE | CASTELLANOS M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rethinking Tourism Reform: Territorial Politics and Maya Alternatives to Capitalist Recovery in Southern Mexico
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the fragility of tourism-dependent economies and intensified calls for sustainable transformations. This paper examines state-led post-pandemic tourism reforms in Mexico’s Fourth Transformation, particularly around the Maya Train project in the Yucatán Peninsula. Drawing on critical approaches to reformism and J.K. Gibson-Graham’s diverse economies framework, we discuss Mexico’s post-pandemic tourism initiatives …
Settler Erasures and Reclaiming Indigeneity in City of Ghosts
Settler Erasures and Reclaiming Indigeneity in City of Ghosts
Los Angeles a été profondément façonnée par le colonialisme de peuplement, entraînant l’effacement continu des peuples autochtones. Pourtant, la ville a été construite sur les terres ancestrales des Gabrielino/Tongva et des Chumash, et elle est devenue un lieu de plus en plus important pour les peuples amérindiens et autochtones d’Amérique latine. Cet article s’intéresse à la série animée de Netflix City of Ghosts (2021), qui révèle les histoires…
Unsettling Global Midwests: A Special Issue of the American Studies Journal
Unsettling Global MidwestsA Special Issue of the American Studies Journal Thomas Xavier Sarmiento (bio), M. Bianet Castellanos (bio), and Christopher Perreira (bio), Guest Editors The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25, 2020, sparked social protests across the United States and the world, but as Walter R. Jacobs, Wendy Thompson Taiwo, and Amy August’s edited collection Sparked: George Floyd, Racism, and the Progressi…
Indigenous Urbanisms in Pandemic Times: Countering Settler Violence with convivencia
The pandemic catapulted Mexican cities into spaces of trauma and loss and as sites of state failure. For Maya migrants, state failure forms part of a history of settler violence and neglect. In Cancún, settler tactics promote a narrative of a city of immigrants. These tactics erase Indigenous urbanisms seeking to uphold Indigenous self-determination and nurture u kuxtal yéetel u máatsil máako’ob/convivencia, a Maya ethics of sociality and care ba…
In Cancún, Maya Migrants Fight for Dignity: Facing precarity, indebtedness, and evictions, Indigenous women lead the struggle for housing rights in one of Mexico’s top tourism destinations
Breath and Smoke: Tobacco Use among the Maya
Tobacco is sacred for Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. Breath and Smoke delves into tobacco's origins in Maya culture and rituals and traces its residues across space and time. Beginning in the eighth century and moving through the present day, the volume brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars whose analysis of myths, ethnography, material culture, hieroglyphics, historical documents, healing practices, and chemical res…
Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico
Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. For Indigenous peoples, access to affordable housing remains crucial to alleviating poverty. But as palapas , traditional thatch and wood houses, are replaced by tract houses in the Yucatán Peninsula, Indigenous peoples' relationship to land, urba…
Rewriting the Mexican immigrant narrative: Situating indigeneity in Maya women’s stories
Introduction: Settler Colonialism in Latin America
Introduction: Settler Colonialism in Latin America M. Bianet Castellanos (bio) Inspired by recent debates over the suitability of extending settler colonialism as a framework for understanding the experiences of indigenous Latinx in the United States and indigenous peoples in Latin America, this forum offers a substantive engagement with settler colonial theory that attends to the specificities of Latin American colonialism(s). Considered a key d…
The Modern Maya: Incidents of Travel and Friendship in Yucatán - by Everton, Macduff
Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas: Toward a Hemispheric Approach
Repositioning Native Subjects
Research Article| April 01 2012 Repositioning Native Subjects M. Bianet Castellanos M. Bianet Castellanos M. Bianet Castellanos teaches American studies at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include Maya culture, migration, gender, tourism, childhood, race, and inequality. She is the author of A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and a coeditor (with Lourdes G…
Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization
T his book emerged from a desire to identify and invent analytics through which to compare racial formations, in distinction to comparative race scholarship that simply parallels instances of historical similarity across racial groups in the United States.Such a project entails not only articulating commonalities between communities of color but imagining alternative modes of coalition beyond prior models of racial or ethnic solidarity based on a…
Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu and Urban Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico
Don Teo's Expulsion: Property Regimes, Moral Economies, and Ejido Reform
Este artículo analiza un caso de expulsión ejidal en Yucatán, México, que demuestra como la propiedad se convierte en un mecanismo de regulación social. La comunidad Maya expulsó a un ejidatario por no cumplir con sus faenas y no mantener su responsabilidad moral hacia su comunidad étnica. En la transición del sistema de tierra comunal hacia la privatización, las ideologías morales que sostienen regímenes de propiedad son tan importantes como las…
Engendering Mexican Migration: Articulating Gender, Regions, Circuits
Constructing the Family: Mexican Migrant Households, Marriage, and the State
Recent research on migrant settlement shows that women play an important role in consolidating migrant households and facilitating permanent settlement in migrant sites. Other studies demonstrate that government policies and legislation also determine the contours of migrant communities. A case study of a Maya migrant community in Cancún, Mexico, shows that state policies and the economic systems associated with an international tourist industry …
Introduction: Settler Colonialism in Latin America
Introduction: Settler Colonialism in Latin America M. Bianet Castellanos (bio) Inspired by recent debates over the suitability of extending settler colonialism as a framework for understanding the experiences of indigenous Latinx in the United States and indigenous peoples in Latin America, this forum offers a substantive engagement with settler colonial theory that attends to the specificities of Latin American colonialism(s). Considered a key d…
Rewriting the Mexican immigrant narrative: Situating indigeneity in Maya women’s stories
Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico
Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. For Indigenous peoples, access to affordable housing remains crucial to alleviating poverty. But as palapas , traditional thatch and wood houses, are replaced by tract houses in the Yucatán Peninsula, Indigenous peoples' relationship to land, urba…
Don Teo's Expulsion: Property Regimes, Moral Economies, and Ejido Reform
Este artículo analiza un caso de expulsión ejidal en Yucatán, México, que demuestra como la propiedad se convierte en un mecanismo de regulación social. La comunidad Maya expulsó a un ejidatario por no cumplir con sus faenas y no mantener su responsabilidad moral hacia su comunidad étnica. En la transición del sistema de tierra comunal hacia la privatización, las ideologías morales que sostienen regímenes de propiedad son tan importantes como las…
Engendering Mexican Migration: Articulating Gender, Regions, Circuits
Indigenous Urbanisms in Pandemic Times: Countering Settler Violence with convivencia
The pandemic catapulted Mexican cities into spaces of trauma and loss and as sites of state failure. For Maya migrants, state failure forms part of a history of settler violence and neglect. In Cancún, settler tactics promote a narrative of a city of immigrants. These tactics erase Indigenous urbanisms seeking to uphold Indigenous self-determination and nurture u kuxtal yéetel u máatsil máako’ob/convivencia, a Maya ethics of sociality and care ba…
Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu and Urban Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico
Constructing the Family: Mexican Migrant Households, Marriage, and the State
Recent research on migrant settlement shows that women play an important role in consolidating migrant households and facilitating permanent settlement in migrant sites. Other studies demonstrate that government policies and legislation also determine the contours of migrant communities. A case study of a Maya migrant community in Cancún, Mexico, shows that state policies and the economic systems associated with an international tourist industry …
Engendering Mexican Migration: Articulating Gender, Regions, Circuits
Constructing the Family: Mexican Migrant Households, Marriage, and the State
Recent research on migrant settlement shows that women play an important role in consolidating migrant households and facilitating permanent settlement in migrant sites. Other studies demonstrate that government policies and legislation also determine the contours of migrant communities. A case study of a Maya migrant community in Cancún, Mexico, shows that state policies and the economic systems associated with an international tourist industry …
Don Teo's Expulsion: Property Regimes, Moral Economies, and Ejido Reform
Este artículo analiza un caso de expulsión ejidal en Yucatán, México, que demuestra como la propiedad se convierte en un mecanismo de regulación social. La comunidad Maya expulsó a un ejidatario por no cumplir con sus faenas y no mantener su responsabilidad moral hacia su comunidad étnica. En la transición del sistema de tierra comunal hacia la privatización, las ideologías morales que sostienen regímenes de propiedad son tan importantes como las…
Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization
T his book emerged from a desire to identify and invent analytics through which to compare racial formations, in distinction to comparative race scholarship that simply parallels instances of historical similarity across racial groups in the United States.Such a project entails not only articulating commonalities between communities of color but imagining alternative modes of coalition beyond prior models of racial or ethnic solidarity based on a…
Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu and Urban Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico
Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas: Toward a Hemispheric Approach
Repositioning Native Subjects
Research Article| April 01 2012 Repositioning Native Subjects M. Bianet Castellanos M. Bianet Castellanos M. Bianet Castellanos teaches American studies at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include Maya culture, migration, gender, tourism, childhood, race, and inequality. She is the author of A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and a coeditor (with Lourdes G…
The Modern Maya: Incidents of Travel and Friendship in Yucatán - by Everton, Macduff
Rewriting the Mexican immigrant narrative: Situating indigeneity in Maya women’s stories
Introduction: Settler Colonialism in Latin America
Introduction: Settler Colonialism in Latin America M. Bianet Castellanos (bio) Inspired by recent debates over the suitability of extending settler colonialism as a framework for understanding the experiences of indigenous Latinx in the United States and indigenous peoples in Latin America, this forum offers a substantive engagement with settler colonial theory that attends to the specificities of Latin American colonialism(s). Considered a key d…
Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico
Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. For Indigenous peoples, access to affordable housing remains crucial to alleviating poverty. But as palapas , traditional thatch and wood houses, are replaced by tract houses in the Yucatán Peninsula, Indigenous peoples' relationship to land, urba…
Breath and Smoke: Tobacco Use among the Maya
Tobacco is sacred for Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. Breath and Smoke delves into tobacco's origins in Maya culture and rituals and traces its residues across space and time. Beginning in the eighth century and moving through the present day, the volume brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars whose analysis of myths, ethnography, material culture, hieroglyphics, historical documents, healing practices, and chemical res…
In Cancún, Maya Migrants Fight for Dignity: Facing precarity, indebtedness, and evictions, Indigenous women lead the struggle for housing rights in one of Mexico’s top tourism destinations
Unsettling Global Midwests: A Special Issue of the American Studies Journal
Unsettling Global MidwestsA Special Issue of the American Studies Journal Thomas Xavier Sarmiento (bio), M. Bianet Castellanos (bio), and Christopher Perreira (bio), Guest Editors The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25, 2020, sparked social protests across the United States and the world, but as Walter R. Jacobs, Wendy Thompson Taiwo, and Amy August’s edited collection Sparked: George Floyd, Racism, and the Progressi…
Indigenous Urbanisms in Pandemic Times: Countering Settler Violence with convivencia
The pandemic catapulted Mexican cities into spaces of trauma and loss and as sites of state failure. For Maya migrants, state failure forms part of a history of settler violence and neglect. In Cancún, settler tactics promote a narrative of a city of immigrants. These tactics erase Indigenous urbanisms seeking to uphold Indigenous self-determination and nurture u kuxtal yéetel u máatsil máako’ob/convivencia, a Maya ethics of sociality and care ba…
Settler Erasures and Reclaiming Indigeneity in City of Ghosts
Settler Erasures and Reclaiming Indigeneity in City of Ghosts
Los Angeles a été profondément façonnée par le colonialisme de peuplement, entraînant l’effacement continu des peuples autochtones. Pourtant, la ville a été construite sur les terres ancestrales des Gabrielino/Tongva et des Chumash, et elle est devenue un lieu de plus en plus important pour les peuples amérindiens et autochtones d’Amérique latine. Cet article s’intéresse à la série animée de Netflix City of Ghosts (2021), qui révèle les histoires…
Rethinking Tourism Reform: Territorial Politics and Maya Alternatives to Capitalist Recovery in Southern Mexico
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the fragility of tourism-dependent economies and intensified calls for sustainable transformations. This paper examines state-led post-pandemic tourism reforms in Mexico’s Fourth Transformation, particularly around the Maya Train project in the Yucatán Peninsula. Drawing on critical approaches to reformism and J.K. Gibson-Graham’s diverse economies framework, we discuss Mexico’s post-pandemic tourism initiatives …
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (7 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Maya (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works)