1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451621703321

Autore

Smith Robert C. <1964->

Titolo

Mexican New York [[electronic resource] ] : transnational lives of new immigrants / / Robert Courtney Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006

ISBN

0-520-93860-7

1-59875-804-7

1-282-76320-2

9786612763205

1-4237-3145-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Disciplina

304.8/7471072/090511

Soggetti

Mexican Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions

Immigrants - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions

Transnationalism

Electronic books.

United States Relations Mexico

Mexico Relations United States

New York (N.Y.) Emigration and immigration

Puebla (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration

New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Transnational Life in Ethnographic Perspective -- 2. Dual Contexts for Transnational Life -- 3. "Los Ausentes Siempre Presentes" -- 4. The Defeat of Don Victorio -- 5. Gender Strategies, Settlement, and Transnational Life in the First Generation -- 6. "In Ticuani, He Goes Crazy" -- 7. "Padre Jesús, Protect Me" -- 8. "I'll Go Back Next Year" -- 9. Defending Your Name -- 10. Returning to a Changed Ticuani -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Coda: The Mexican Educational Foundation of New York -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Methodological Appendix -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants and their children in New York and in Mexico. Robert Courtney Smith's groundbreaking study sheds new light on transnationalism, vividly illustrating how immigrants move back and forth between New York and their home village in Puebla with considerable ease, borrowing from and contributing to both communities as they forge new gender roles; new strategies of social mobility, race, and even adolescence; and new brands of politics and egalitarianism. Smith's deeply informed narrative describes how first-generation men who have lived in New York for decades become important political leaders in their home villages in Mexico. Smith explains how relations between immigrant men and women and their U.S.-born children are renegotiated in the context of migration to New York and temporary return visits to Mexico. He illustrates how U.S.-born youth keep their attachments to Mexico, and how changes in migration and assimilation have combined to transnationalize both U.S.-born adolescents and Mexican gangs between New York and Puebla. Mexican New York profoundly deepens our knowledge of immigration as a social process, convincingly showing how some immigrants live and function in two worlds at the same time and how transnationalization and assimilation are not opposing, but related, phenomena.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910978070203321

Autore

Pleiger Henriette

Titolo

Interdisciplinary Exhibitions and the Production of Knowledge : Perspectives from Curatorial Practice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2025

©2024

ISBN

9783839474204

3839474205

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 pages)

Collana

Edition Museum ; ; 87

Soggetti

ART / Museum Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mapping out the scope of this research: A literature review -- 3 Theories of interdisciplinarity and their methodological application to museum practice -- 4 A transdisciplinary and participatory exhibition: Setting the bar for good practice – TOUCHDOWN. An exhibition with and about people with Down’s syndrome -- 5 The ‘inter-disciplined’ exhibition: Art meets science – Weather Report. About Weather Culture and Climate Science -- 6 A multidisciplinary exhibition and the political dimension of interdisciplinarity – We Capitalists. From Zero to Turbo -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Interview questions

Sommario/riassunto

How can exhibitions not only stage existing knowledge, but also raise questions that might eventually lead to new research? This question has become ever more relevant due to the museum sector's growing interest in the development of thematic exhibitions that combine narratives and objects from art, science, cultural history, and everyday life. Using theories from interdisciplinarity studies, Henriette Pleiger identifies different ways of producing knowledge during the exhibition-making process, as well as the mechanisms that are necessary for an exhibition to be considered interdisciplinary. The development of such exhibitions can be understood as collaborative research processes.