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Food as Voice
Full text linkFood is the eyes to the soul. And if those eyes are served steamed with salt and laurel leaves, accompanied by coriander, lime, and salsa on a tortilla, they don’t only reflect who we are, but also where we come from. Food is the echo of our voice as a society, a living testament to our geography and history. Each dish, constructed over time and around the same reinvented ingredients, clearly shows who we are, both as individuals and as a collective
Leer/Escribir y Escribir sobre Escribir: Dos Muros de Facebook sobre Literatura Canadiense
No full textEn los muros de Facebook, la gente interactúa con diferentes fines. Con el objetivo de descubrir de qué modo pueden utilizarse como herramienta de difusión de la literatura, llevé a cabo una búsqueda de grupos en dicha plataforma cuyo interés radicó en las literaturas canadienses. Como objeto de investigación hallé los muros Canada Reads y Canada Writes, los cuales están auspiciados por una de las más importantes y prestigiosas instituciones culturales anglocanadienses: la emisora pública Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (cbc);2 descubrí una muy interesante conversación no sólo sobre el ejercicio de leer y escribir, sino también una subyacente y exitosa voluntad de divulgación de la literatura anglocanadiense desde sus dos vertientes: la escritura y la lectura, las cuales van de la mano con la producción y el consumo de libros
Food as Voice
Full text linkIn a recent study, we explored the emergence of a new Mexico City nightlife circuit centered on consuming natural wine, which has unfolded as part of a broader transformation of the city’s nightlife in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic’s impact, which was especially severe in the nightlife industry, added to an influx of thousands of foreign digital nomads attracted by the local climate, cost of living, and trendy neighborhoods like the Roma, Condesa, Juárez, and Downtown districts, altered the urban dynamic. Collaboration between the local government and Airbnb accelerated displacement of long-term residents and boosted market conditions tailored to the preferences of new arrivals, similar to those of the local elite, with access to globalized godos and experiences. In this context, the emerging natural wine circuit stands out as an expression of Cosmopolitan sensibilities, manifesting in temporary events or pop-ups that redefine spaces of urban nightlife and foster new cultural practices
Art & Culture
No full textIn the first half of the twentieth century, cultural agents in Mexico from diverse backgrounds—intellectuals, civil servants, artists, and academics—participated in the construction of the state’s cultural policy. In addition to implementing and executing these policies, they created transnational networks in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, which fostered exchanges, contacts, and dialogues with their peers, with the central objective of promoting the culture and art of post-revolutionary Mexico. This was primarily done through academic and popular writings and the organization of exhibitions
More than Meals and Food Stalls: UNAM Alumni on Food, Memory and Connection
No full textThe La Viga Boulevard area has historically been a place for trade, shops, and Street markets, since, in what used to be the La Viga Canal, canoes used to pass on the way to downtown’s Merced Market from Xochimilco and Chalco. The water is no longer there, but the streets remember. In the first half of the twentieth century, people would gather on the old La Viga Promenade to board little barges and eat antojitos, or Mexican snacks. Covering over that canal brought with it the inauguration of the Jamaica Market in 1957, and I visit there every three months. The market is also famous for its flower stalls. A colleague of mine I worked with at a magazine first invited me to visit it. It was around the time of year of the Day of the Dead; the market extended out into the street with temporary stands full of marigolds, tamales, and tacos. Even though I stopped working with those people, I decided to continue my visits to the market because of Salsa
Food as Voice
Full text link“Today my Mexico is beautiful, as it never was, but when I was a child, my Mexico had a je ne sais quoi!” (Hoy mi México es bello, como nunca lo fue, pero cuando era niño, ¡tenía mi México un no sé qué!), wrote Chava Flores in his song Mi México de ayer, in the midtwentieth century. Yet, these lines have resonated constantly throughout my lifetime. During several strolls or bike rides, I have found myself thinking about how much the city has changed. In The Colossus of New York, Colson Whitehead reflected on how the constant transformation of tangible aspects of New York City (nyc), mainly its skyline and buildings, rendered it unrecognizable in the blink of an eye. Changes in Mexico City’s architectural landscape may not seem as fast paced as nyc’s, but as Chava Flores suggested, its intangible elements (both in Mexico City and in other cities) are ever changing. Through my personal experiences and memories around maize, I address how foodways in Mexico have been shaped by global trade and agro-industrial production, and the visible effects these forces have in our current everyday lives
Food as Voice
Full text linkIn migrant-receiving cities, food links the production of signifiers and consumption and socialization practices that allow migrants and their affiliation groups to construct a history for themselves and for others.1 As Manuel Calvo has written, immigrants in the process of establishing a new destination try to maintain eating habits from their places of origin, little by little combining new practices of sharing food together with the creation of a food system with new and old elements
Art & Culture
No full textIt was around midday when Bonnie Brown saw the store, long velvet curtains hiding the inside from the wide show windows and an old wooden door up front, just like Rudy had described it. Upon a closer look she noticed a label hanging on the door, a sign that read “Open”
Anexos
No full textEl objetivo de esta encuesta es analizar los desafíos individuales y colectivos de los desplazamientos repentinos y/o forzados con base en las experiencias de vida de refugiados calificados que estén dispuestos a responder las siguientes preguntas. Algunas de ellas son abiertas para que los encuestados puedan hacer comentarios y expresar opiniones subjetivas, pues mi objetivo principal es conocer su percepción de la experiencia migratoria y el impacto que esta travesía ha tenido en sus vidas, y no sólo obtener información cuantitativa.La migración de recursos humanos calificados ha sido estudiada como el escenario de emigración más favorable, ya que con frecuencia los profesionistas pueden elegir el lugar donde quieren residir e incluso pueden prepararse para su reasentamiento estudiando el idioma del nuevo país; sin embargo, hay veces que los migrantes calificados se ven obligados a huir por las mismas razones que los no calificados. Las guerras, la pobreza y la violencia pueden provocar la decisión de emigrar de manera repentina o insuficientemente planeada
Repertorios digitales en la era de la internet
No full textEn este capítulo se abordan repertorios que van desde acción colectiva relativamente pasiva hasta gladiadurismo digital. A pesar de que la Internet se ha visto con optimismo como una plataforma igualadora, los repertorios digitales, su eficacia y sus límites han venido a ilustrar nuevas desigualdades. En este capítulo se exponen los repertorios digitales de movimientos surgidos en redes sociales muy conocidos como #MeToo y #BlackLivesMatter, pero también se problematizan los repertorios del hacktivismo y los dilemas éticos para las democracias contemporáneas.Además de desplegar mecanismos tradicionales de participación como votar, boicotear a una compañía o a un producto y firmar peticiones, publicar o republicar publicaciones de redes sociales es el repertorio más común desplegado en la actualidad por los estadounidenses. Hoy en día, la Internet es más que una simple herramienta de comunicación. Por ejemplo, en Estados Unidos, tres de cada diez personas consultan las noticias a través de sus cuentas de Facebook, seguido por un 26 por ciento que lo hace en YouTube, un 16 por ciento en Instagram y un 14 por ciento en TikTok. A manera de contraste, en el caso de México, la red social preferida es WhatsApp con un 83 por ciento de usuarios, pero Facebook registra un 75 por ciento de usuarios, casi 6 de cada 10 mexicanos obtienen sus noticias primariamente en Facebook, datos muy por encima de los patrones de uso en Estados Unidos (Newman et al., 2023)