Postborder City: Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California

by Dear,Michael; Dear,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415944205
• ISBN10: 0415944201
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317794028
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-08-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The vast metropolis stretching from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south heralds a new form -- the postborder city. Comprised of both Baja California (Mexico) and Alta California (Southern California), "Bajalta California" is now a milieu of constantly shifting and intersecting geographies, economies, and cultures. While cross-border exchange has existed for well over a century, in recent years the accelerating currents of cultural and economic globalization have hastened the emergence of this transnational megalopolis. Postborder City is an interdisciplinary investigation of the hybrid culture on both sides of the increasingly fluid U.S-Mexico border, spanning the disciplines of art, film studies, art history, urban planning, geography, and Latina/o and American studies.

Author Biography

Michael Dear is Professor of Geography and Director of the Southern California Studies Center at the University of Southern California. Gustavo Leclerc is partner and founding member of ADOBE LA (Artists, Architects and Designers Opening the Border Edge of Los Angeles) since 1992, and Director of the Border Cultures Project at USC's Southern California Studies Center.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Foreword	xvii
SELMA HOLO
Introduction: The Postborder Condition	1	(32)
Art and Urbanism in Bajalta California
MICHAEL DEAR AND GUSTAVO LECLERC
Portfolio: The Art of Postborder Bajalta California
Part I: Regional Groundedness
1 "Where Are You Going to Be Worthier?"	33	(14)
(The Border and the Post border)
CARLOS MONSIVAIS
2 Peopling Alta California	47	(36)
PHOEBE S. KROPP AND MICHAEL DEAR
3 Peopling Baja California	83	(36)
HECTOR MANUEL LUCERO
Part II: Regional Imaginations
4 Global Tijuana	119	(24)
The Seven Ecologies of the Border
LAWRENCE A. HERZOG
5 Border Art Since 1965	143	(40)
JO-ANNE BERELOWITZ
6 Border Representations	183	(34)
Border Cinema and Independent Video
NORMA IGLESIAS
Part III: Regional Hybridities
7 "Where Am I at Home?"	217	(32)
The Interplay of National, Local, and Imaginative Space
RICHARD CANDIDA SMITH
8 Hybridities and Histories	249	(28)
Imaging the Rim
DAVID PALUMBO-LIU
9 Rewriting Cultural Studies in the Borderlands	277	(10)
NÉSTOR GARCIA CANCLINI
About the Writers	287	(4)
About the Artists Represented in the Folio	291	(6)
Index	297