Cultural Diffusion in Mexico

Artistic interventions of the Mexican student movement. ‘Leverage’ is an inquiry into the work of Artistas Aliados, the artistic branch of the #YoSoy132 student movement that burst out in Mexico on May 11th, 2012. Excluded from the usual circuits of aesthetic and economic value production, the work of Artistas Aliados provides an opportunity to explore contemporary geopolitics of value from a position of relative exteriority. The author departs from the thesis that neoliberalism has appropriated the formal dimension of our imaginations as a result of its global hegemony over economics and mass media. Neoliberalism's colonization of form mobilizes unconscious affective content to the advantage of capital, which Artistas Aliados strive to leverage to their own advantage. Reference: Aroch-Fugellie, P. (2013). Leverage: Artistic interventions of the Mexican student movement. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 22(4), 353–373. http://www.red-redial.net/mobile/recursos...

'Échale un ojo a tus monumentos': Un programa de difusión sobre patrimonio cultural para niños y jóvenes de México. El programa "Échale un ojo a tus monumentos", de la Coordinación Nacional de Monumentos Históricos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (CNMH-INAH), nació a partir de una necesidad muy específica: lograr que los escolares de educación básica en centros o poblados con monumentos históricos conozcan, disfruten y difundan desde su realidad particular el patrimonio cultural edificado. Haciendo eco del principio de la escuela activa "aprender haciendo", nuestro enfoque busca que se aprenda a valorar cuidando; es decir, se trata de inducir valores en el estudiante por medio de su participación activa. La presente contribución expone los objetivos, metodología y desarrollo del programa con el fin dereportar algunos de sus resultados y plantear algunos retos a futuro, mismos que llevan a una reflexión sobre la experiencia y s...

A Contested Art: Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico Author: Gunckel, Colin You can found here the full text. The Western Historical Quarterly. Winter, 2016, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p487 Gunckel, C. (2016). A Contested Art: Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico. The Western Historical Quarterly, (4), 487. Retrieved from https://udlap.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsggo&AN=edsgcl.473342544&lang=es&site=eds-live

Cultural Identity: Between Reality and Fiction A Transformation of Genre and Roles in Mexican Telenovelas María de la Luz Casas Pérez  Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Cuernavaca This article reviews the concept of cultural identity vis-à-vis the viewing of soap operas, or telenovelas, within the Mexican context. The patterns of viewing, role modeling, narrative, and other characteristics are reviewed to define the ways in which this audiovisual genre contributes to the building of cultural elements within Mexican society. Keywords: Telenovelas; Genre; Roles; Cultural Identity and Mexico. You can found the full text here.