Miguel Diaz-Barriga
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miguel Diaz-Barriga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miguel |
| FAMILY NAME | Diaz-Barriga |
| SIGNATURE | DÍAZ-BARRIGA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond the Domestic and the Public
This chapter focuses on the personal accounts of three women who participated in urban movements (UMs) in Mexico City—Ursula, Dona Jovita, and Pilar—to describe how colonas have navigated the conflicts and violence associated with grassroots organizing. It characterizes the contested terrain of the domestic and public spheres that resulted from women's participation in UMs. The reason why poor women, and the poor in general, participate in UMs is…
Rasquache Aesthetics and the Unmonumental Border
Remaking Culture and Truth
Research Article| April 01 2012 Remaking Culture and Truth: Cultural and Necro-Citizenship Miguel Díaz-Barriga Miguel Díaz-Barriga Miguel Díaz-Barriga is a professor of anthropology and project director in the Visual Border Studies collection at the University of Texas–Pan American. He is currently writing a book with Margaret E. Dorsey on the construction of the border wall in South Texas. He is the author of numerous publications on Mexican Ame…
Senator Barack Obama and Immigration Reform
Senator Barack Obama played a key role in supporting bipartisan efforts led by Senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy to legislate “comprehensive immigration reform.” This new legislation calls for augmenting border security, enforcing employer sanctions for firms that hire “undocumented workers,” and creating a path to “earned” citizenship for workers already in the United States. The authors argue that Senator Obama uses a “both . . . and” rat…
Society for Visual Anthropology
What Are the Possibilities for Integrating Community-Based Video Production into Teaching Visual Ethnography?•What Did I Learn from This Experience
Materialism and Sensuality
During the Festival of Our Lady of Urkupin ̈ a, held every August in Quillacollo, Bolivia, an estimated half million pilgrims petition Our Lady for wealth and material goods. The festival has become a national event and now includes the participation of government officials, including the President, as well as widespread coverage by the media. The festival has also become a point of controversy and contestation over the meanings of Bolivian natio…
Mema's House, Mexico City
Between Resistance and Revolution
Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest. RICHARD FOX and ORIN STARN. eds. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997; 279 pp. This volume offers a wide range of case studies and theoretical discussions of the politics of betweenness - the and political space between violent revolution and everyday resistance. With the decline of revolutionary movements and the travails of post-revolutionary societies such as …
Between Resistance and Revolution
Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest. RICHARD FOX and ORIN STARN. eds. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997; 279 pp. This volume offers a wide range of case studies and theoretical discussions of the politics of betweenness - the and political space between violent revolution and everyday resistance. With the decline of revolutionary movements and the travails of post-revolutionary societies such as …
Mema's House, Mexico City
Materialism and Sensuality
During the Festival of Our Lady of Urkupin ̈ a, held every August in Quillacollo, Bolivia, an estimated half million pilgrims petition Our Lady for wealth and material goods. The festival has become a national event and now includes the participation of government officials, including the President, as well as widespread coverage by the media. The festival has also become a point of controversy and contestation over the meanings of Bolivian natio…
Senator Barack Obama and Immigration Reform
Senator Barack Obama played a key role in supporting bipartisan efforts led by Senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy to legislate “comprehensive immigration reform.” This new legislation calls for augmenting border security, enforcing employer sanctions for firms that hire “undocumented workers,” and creating a path to “earned” citizenship for workers already in the United States. The authors argue that Senator Obama uses a “both . . . and” rat…
Society for Visual Anthropology
What Are the Possibilities for Integrating Community-Based Video Production into Teaching Visual Ethnography?•What Did I Learn from This Experience
Remaking Culture and Truth
Research Article| April 01 2012 Remaking Culture and Truth: Cultural and Necro-Citizenship Miguel Díaz-Barriga Miguel Díaz-Barriga Miguel Díaz-Barriga is a professor of anthropology and project director in the Visual Border Studies collection at the University of Texas–Pan American. He is currently writing a book with Margaret E. Dorsey on the construction of the border wall in South Texas. He is the author of numerous publications on Mexican Ame…
Rasquache Aesthetics and the Unmonumental Border
Beyond the Domestic and the Public
This chapter focuses on the personal accounts of three women who participated in urban movements (UMs) in Mexico City—Ursula, Dona Jovita, and Pilar—to describe how colonas have navigated the conflicts and violence associated with grassroots organizing. It characterizes the contested terrain of the domestic and public spheres that resulted from women's participation in UMs. The reason why poor women, and the poor in general, participate in UMs is…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)