Elaine A Peña
Biographic Data
| ID | 222002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine A Peña |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine A |
| FAMILY NAME | Peña |
| SIGNATURE | PEÑA E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6076-5556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The inconspicuous power of border festivals: Insights from the Chad-Cameroon border
Held every two years and alternating venues between Yagoua (Cameroon) and Bongor (Chad), the Tokna Massana border festival celebrates the identity and culture of the partitioned Masa peoples. This article explores how border festivals like Tokna Massana can complement and innovate the study of borders and borderlands. Building on participant observation, semi-structured interviews and archival research, we analyze how exacting cross-border festiv…
Gómez-Peña Unplugged: Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008–2020)
Gomez-Pena Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gomez-Pena, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Throughout this collection, Gomez-Pena tackles literature, theory, pedagogy, activism and live art in an eclectic mix that demonstrates how the process of writing is sim…
Imaginary activism
Paso Libre: Border Enactment, Infrastructure, and Crisis Resolution at the Port of Laredo 1954–1957
In 1954, Hurricane Alice destroyed the International Bridge at Laredo, Texas (USA) and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas (Mexico). Eager to protect trade, the Mexican federal government and the City of Laredo rushed to rebuild but right-to-toll disagreements stalled construction. Laredo officials used the long-standing tradition of George Washington’s birthday celebration and the paso libre enacted for the festivities to resolve the crisis. Mexican citize…
Time to Pray: Devotional Rhythms and Space Sacralization Processes at the Mexico-US Border
This essay uses the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge at the Port of Laredo to examine Catholic parish life at la Parroquia Santo Niño in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Considering how infrastructure works, how it literally keeps people and objects moving, nuances our understanding of the devotional rhythms and space sacralization processes of actors who move and wait in a border environment. Contributing to debates about rhythm and…
Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe
The Virgin of Guadalupe, though quintessentially Mexican, inspires devotion throughout the Americas and around the world. This study sheds new light on the long-standing transnational dimensions of Guadalupan worship by examining the production of sacred space in three disparate but interconnected locations—at the sacred space known as Tepeyac in Mexico City, at its replica in Des Plaines, Illinois, and at a sidewalk shrine constructed by Mexican…
Beyond Mexico: Guadalupan Sacred Space Production and Mobilization in a Chicago Suburb
Beyond México opens at a meeting of Mexican, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran and "American" (presumably devotees with U.S. citizenship) Guadalupanas/os at the "Second Tepeyac of North America" in a Chicago suburb. Taking this Sunday morning gathering at the "Second Tepeyac," a replica of Tepeyac-the Marian shrine in Mexico City where Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in 1531-and early twentieth labor migration circuits to the Chicago area as a poin…
Time to Pray: Devotional Rhythms and Space Sacralization Processes at the Mexico-US Border
This essay uses the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge at the Port of Laredo to examine Catholic parish life at la Parroquia Santo Niño in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Considering how infrastructure works, how it literally keeps people and objects moving, nuances our understanding of the devotional rhythms and space sacralization processes of actors who move and wait in a border environment. Contributing to debates about rhythm and…
The inconspicuous power of border festivals: Insights from the Chad-Cameroon border
Held every two years and alternating venues between Yagoua (Cameroon) and Bongor (Chad), the Tokna Massana border festival celebrates the identity and culture of the partitioned Masa peoples. This article explores how border festivals like Tokna Massana can complement and innovate the study of borders and borderlands. Building on participant observation, semi-structured interviews and archival research, we analyze how exacting cross-border festiv…
Beyond Mexico: Guadalupan Sacred Space Production and Mobilization in a Chicago Suburb
Beyond México opens at a meeting of Mexican, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran and "American" (presumably devotees with U.S. citizenship) Guadalupanas/os at the "Second Tepeyac of North America" in a Chicago suburb. Taking this Sunday morning gathering at the "Second Tepeyac," a replica of Tepeyac-the Marian shrine in Mexico City where Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in 1531-and early twentieth labor migration circuits to the Chicago area as a poin…
Beyond Mexico: Guadalupan Sacred Space Production and Mobilization in a Chicago Suburb
Beyond México opens at a meeting of Mexican, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran and "American" (presumably devotees with U.S. citizenship) Guadalupanas/os at the "Second Tepeyac of North America" in a Chicago suburb. Taking this Sunday morning gathering at the "Second Tepeyac," a replica of Tepeyac-the Marian shrine in Mexico City where Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in 1531-and early twentieth labor migration circuits to the Chicago area as a poin…
Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe
The Virgin of Guadalupe, though quintessentially Mexican, inspires devotion throughout the Americas and around the world. This study sheds new light on the long-standing transnational dimensions of Guadalupan worship by examining the production of sacred space in three disparate but interconnected locations—at the sacred space known as Tepeyac in Mexico City, at its replica in Des Plaines, Illinois, and at a sidewalk shrine constructed by Mexican…
Paso Libre: Border Enactment, Infrastructure, and Crisis Resolution at the Port of Laredo 1954–1957
In 1954, Hurricane Alice destroyed the International Bridge at Laredo, Texas (USA) and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas (Mexico). Eager to protect trade, the Mexican federal government and the City of Laredo rushed to rebuild but right-to-toll disagreements stalled construction. Laredo officials used the long-standing tradition of George Washington’s birthday celebration and the paso libre enacted for the festivities to resolve the crisis. Mexican citize…
Time to Pray: Devotional Rhythms and Space Sacralization Processes at the Mexico-US Border
This essay uses the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge at the Port of Laredo to examine Catholic parish life at la Parroquia Santo Niño in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Considering how infrastructure works, how it literally keeps people and objects moving, nuances our understanding of the devotional rhythms and space sacralization processes of actors who move and wait in a border environment. Contributing to debates about rhythm and…
Gómez-Peña Unplugged: Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008–2020)
Gomez-Pena Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gomez-Pena, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Throughout this collection, Gomez-Pena tackles literature, theory, pedagogy, activism and live art in an eclectic mix that demonstrates how the process of writing is sim…
Imaginary activism
The inconspicuous power of border festivals: Insights from the Chad-Cameroon border
Held every two years and alternating venues between Yagoua (Cameroon) and Bongor (Chad), the Tokna Massana border festival celebrates the identity and culture of the partitioned Masa peoples. This article explores how border festivals like Tokna Massana can complement and innovate the study of borders and borderlands. Building on participant observation, semi-structured interviews and archival research, we analyze how exacting cross-border festiv…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (2 works)