Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico

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Univ of California Press, Nov 17, 2020 - Social Science - 234 pages
In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcultures from hip-hop to punk and adopt creative organizing practices to create meaningful channels of participation in local social and political life. In the process, young people remake urban space and construct new identities in ways that directly challenge elite visions of their city and essentialist notions of what it means to be indigenous in the contemporary era. Cartographies of Youth Resistance is essential reading for students and scholars interested in youth politics and culture in Mexico, social movements, urban studies, and migration.
 

Contents

Emergent Identities in the Oaxacan Social Movement of 2006
20
Genealogies for the 2006 Generation
55
Urban Youth Collectives as Laboratories for Constructing
81
Networking Counterspaces Constellations of Resistance
103
Giving Form to the 2006 Generations Liberationist
135
Conclusion Shifting Cartographies of Youth Resistance
161
Notes
173
Works Cited
183
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Maurice Rafael Magaña is a sociocultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. 

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