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Title Tijuana dreaming : life and art at the global border / edited by Josh Kun and Fiamma Montezemolo ; with a foreword by Iain Chamber
Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 387 pages) : illustrations
Contents Welcome tu Tijuana / Roberto Castillo -- Snapshots from and about a city named Tijuana / Humberto Félix Berumen -- Tijuanologies : an urban essay / Heriberto Yépez -- Globalization in Tijuana maquiladoras : using historical antecedents and migration to test globalization models / Kathryn Kopinak -- (Conversation with) Néstor García Canclini, on how Tijuana ceased to be the laboratory of postmodernity / Fiamma Montezemolo -- Postcards from the border : in Tijuana, revolución Is an avenue / Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez -- Illicit acts of urbanism / René Peralta -- The transborder metropolis in question : the case of Tijuana and San Diego / Tito Alegría -- Practices of encroachment : urban waste moves southbound; illegal zoning seeps into North / Teddy Cruz -- Community of struggle : gender, violence, and resistance on the U.S./Mexico Border / Michelle Téllez -- La cancion de Tijuana / Guillermo Fadanelli -- Todos somos ciudadanos? Artistic production and agency in Tijuana / Lucía Sanromán -- Bioethnography of an artist : Ingrid Hernández / Fiamma Montezemolo -- Borderline archaeology / Jesse Lerner -- Redefining Sodom : a latter-day vision of Tijuana / Jennifer Insley-Pruitt -- Crossfader playlist / Rafa Saavedra -- Counterculture, rockers, punks, new romantics, and mods in Tijuana / Ejival -- Borderline ghosts : from Touch of evil to Maquilapolis, city of factories / Tarek Elhaik -- The kidnapped city / Josh Kun -- The line / Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
Summary Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, featuring selections by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Arts and society -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico.
Arts and society
Economic history
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) -- Intellectual life
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) -- Economic conditions
Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Subject Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
Form Electronic book
Author Kun, Josh, editor.
Montezemolo, Fiamma, editor.
ISBN 9780822395553
082239555X