Miguel Díaz‐barriga
Biographic Data
| ID | 83616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miguel Díaz‐barriga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miguel |
| FAMILY NAME | Díaz‐barriga |
| SIGNATURE | BARRIGA M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3960-9580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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…
Citizenship
Since the 1990s, citizenship has been transformed into an anthropological genre. Anthropologists have employed terms such as “transnational,” “insurgent,” and “patriotic” to describe the subjective, cultural, and political dimensions of citizenship. Anthropologists have also differentiated between formal and substantive, legal and cultural, and full and partial citizenship to theorize the disjunction between the promise of state‐granted rights an…
Trump's Wall and the Dictator Aesthetic
Rasquache Aesthetics and the Unmonumental Border
Anthropology, Art, and the US-Mexico Border Wall
The Constitution Free Zone in the United States
Residents of South Texas live in a "Constitution free zone," as one of our informants explained. Court rulings have declared that the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution does not apply at checkpoints and spaces up to 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border. This article draws upon Agamben's arguments about "states of exception" and Foucault's notion of the "carceral state" to show that border residents live in a state of legal exception, in w…
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…
Beyond Surveillance and Moonscapes
This article argues that visual representations of the U.S.–Mexico border wall in the popular media, including Time Magazine and National Geographic, portray the border region as lifeless and desolate. These representations negate the possibility of viewing the border as a dynamic and diverse area that is verdant and home to communities and rich cultural histories. The article begins with an overview of popular representations of the U.S.–Mexico …
Society for Visual Anthropology
Society for Visual Anthropology
Research in a Politically Changing Caucasus Hulya Sakarya
Distracción
As part of his effort to organize Mexican workers in the mushroom industry of southeastern Pennsylvania, Luis Tlaseca has made and shown videos on a variety of topics, including Mexican migrants' participation in the annual Mushroom Festival. In this article, I describe Tlaseca's understandings of this video project as well as the video's reception by a group of migrant workers. I argue that at both levels, production and reception, the video has…
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
John Collier Jr and Gary Kildea Honored for Lifetime Achievement
Continuting a Legacy of Communicating Visually: Acceptance of the SVA John Collier Jr Award 2006 Andrea M Heckman
Anthropological Variation(s) on Race and Public Education
Mentoring Diverse Students
Race, Gender and Mentoring in Anthropology Departments
Discussing Minority Issues in Anthropology
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 …
Social Inequality In Oaxaca
Social Inequality In Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change. Arthur D. Murphy and Alex Stepick. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xix + 282 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–87722–868‐X
Social Inequality In Oaxaca
The Constitution Free Zone in the United States
Residents of South Texas live in a "Constitution free zone," as one of our informants explained. Court rulings have declared that the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution does not apply at checkpoints and spaces up to 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border. This article draws upon Agamben's arguments about "states of exception" and Foucault's notion of the "carceral state" to show that border residents live in a state of legal exception, in w…
Beyond Surveillance and Moonscapes
This article argues that visual representations of the U.S.–Mexico border wall in the popular media, including Time Magazine and National Geographic, portray the border region as lifeless and desolate. These representations negate the possibility of viewing the border as a dynamic and diverse area that is verdant and home to communities and rich cultural histories. The article begins with an overview of popular representations of the U.S.–Mexico …
Distracción
As part of his effort to organize Mexican workers in the mushroom industry of southeastern Pennsylvania, Luis Tlaseca has made and shown videos on a variety of topics, including Mexican migrants' participation in the annual Mushroom Festival. In this article, I describe Tlaseca's understandings of this video project as well as the video's reception by a group of migrant workers. I argue that at both levels, production and reception, the video has…
Rasquache Aesthetics and the Unmonumental Border
Race, Gender and Mentoring in Anthropology Departments
Social Inequality In Oaxaca
Social Inequality In Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change. Arthur D. Murphy and Alex Stepick. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xix + 282 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–87722–868‐X
Social Inequality In Oaxaca
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
Discussing Minority Issues in Anthropology
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…
Anthropological Variation(s) on Race and Public Education
Mentoring Diverse Students
Race, Gender and Mentoring in Anthropology Departments
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
John Collier Jr and Gary Kildea Honored for Lifetime Achievement
Continuting a Legacy of Communicating Visually: Acceptance of the SVA John Collier Jr Award 2006 Andrea M Heckman
Society for Visual Anthropology
Society for Visual Anthropology
Research in a Politically Changing Caucasus Hulya Sakarya
Distracción
As part of his effort to organize Mexican workers in the mushroom industry of southeastern Pennsylvania, Luis Tlaseca has made and shown videos on a variety of topics, including Mexican migrants' participation in the annual Mushroom Festival. In this article, I describe Tlaseca's understandings of this video project as well as the video's reception by a group of migrant workers. I argue that at both levels, production and reception, the video has…
Beyond Surveillance and Moonscapes
This article argues that visual representations of the U.S.–Mexico border wall in the popular media, including Time Magazine and National Geographic, portray the border region as lifeless and desolate. These representations negate the possibility of viewing the border as a dynamic and diverse area that is verdant and home to communities and rich cultural histories. The article begins with an overview of popular representations of the U.S.–Mexico …
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…
The Constitution Free Zone in the United States
Residents of South Texas live in a "Constitution free zone," as one of our informants explained. Court rulings have declared that the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution does not apply at checkpoints and spaces up to 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border. This article draws upon Agamben's arguments about "states of exception" and Foucault's notion of the "carceral state" to show that border residents live in a state of legal exception, in w…
Anthropology, Art, and the US-Mexico Border Wall
Trump's Wall and the Dictator Aesthetic
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…
Citizenship
Since the 1990s, citizenship has been transformed into an anthropological genre. Anthropologists have employed terms such as “transnational,” “insurgent,” and “patriotic” to describe the subjective, cultural, and political dimensions of citizenship. Anthropologists have also differentiated between formal and substantive, legal and cultural, and full and partial citizenship to theorize the disjunction between the promise of state‐granted rights an…
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