Fragmented lives, assembled parts [[electronic resource] ] : culture, capitalism, and conquest at the U.S.-Mexico border / / Alejandro Lugo

• Autore: Lugo Alejandro <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.700972/16
• Soggetto topico: Offshore assembly industry - Employees - Mexico - Ciudad Juárez
• Soggetto geografico: Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-301) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Sixteenth-century conquests (1521-1598) and their postcolonial border legacies -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán have to do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial subjectivities -- Culture, class, and gender in late twentieth-century Ciudad Juárez -- Maquiladoras, gender, and culture change -- The political economy of tropes, culture, and masculinity inside an electronics factory -- Border inspections : inspecting the working-class life of maquiladora workers on the U.S-Mexico border -- Culture, class, and union politics : the daily struggle for chairs inside a sewing factory in the larger context of the working day -- Women, men, and "gender" in feminist anthropology : lessons from northern Mexico's maquiladoras -- Alternating imaginings -- Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fragmented lives, assembled parts
• ISBN: 0-292-79420-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454236903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II