Dystopian Eugenics and Mestizo Futurisms in Eduardo Urzaiz'sEugenia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4880835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Sanchez‐rivera (0000-0001-9400-1685, University of Cambridge UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-20 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/blar.13395 |
| OpenAlex | W4293211251 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
Set in 2218, the novelEugeniaenvisions a contradictory utopian and dystopian future premised upon eugenical engineering. Here, I analyse Urzaiz's vision of the beginnings of eugenics in Mexico. Ultimately, I argue that Villautopia is presented as ever-vigilant and always responding to threats of degeneracy and social disorder, which accurately the reflect eugenicist underpinnings of Urzaiz's time. An analysis of Urzaiz himself and the Yucatán context is key as it envisions, translates and produces new eugenic ideas that deterritorialise eugenics and portrays it both in a 'positive' way while providing a series of 'negative' possibilities as a probable outcome
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Dystopia · Environmental ethics · Eugenics · Humanities · Political science · Sociology · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Hour of Eugenics
Theorizing Race in the Americas
Habeas Viscus
The Threat of Race
Past and Future Perfect? Beauty, Affect and Hope
Como debe ser, como Dios manda
Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation
From blanqueamiento to reindigenización
Dreaming of a cosmic race
Distributed intensities
Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom
Eugenia, temprana ciencia-ficción hispanoamericana
"The Making of "La Gran Familia Mexicana
Comparing Ideologies of Racial Mixing in Latin America
Ortodoxia y heterodoxia en las alcobas
The Legacies of 'Race' Science, Anti-Chinese Racism, and Covid-19 in Mexico
Rethinking Mestizaje
Aproximaciones cientificas al mestizo mexicano
Affective Economies
"The Hour of Eugenics" in Veracruz, Mexico
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |