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Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings
the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about
Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations.
Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that
mutually constitute the city, contributing authors engage topics
such as the privatization of public space, challenges to existing
conceptualizations of the urban form, and variations on the flaneur
and other urban actors. Mexico City is truly a city of versions,
and Mapping the Megalopolis celebrates the intersection of the
image of the city and the lived experience of it. Readers will find
substantive entries on a great variety of Mexico City's monumental
and counter-monumental spaces, as well as some of its pivotal
contemporary debates and cultural products. The volume serves both
as supplemental reading on the world city or the Latin American
city, and as a central text in a multidisciplinary study of Mexico
City.
This collection broaches the intersections of critical motherhood
studies and feminist geography. Contributors demonstrate that an
important dimension of the social construction of motherhood is how
mothering happens in space and place, leading to the articulation
of diverse maternal geographies. Through 16 concise chapters
divided into three thematic sections, the contributors provide an
account of motherhood and mothering as spatial practices that are
embedded in relations of power across time and place. While some
contributors explore how dominant discourses of motherhood seek to
keep mothers in their place, others take up the notion of maternal
geographies as productive in their own right and follow their
subjects as they create a new sense of place. Collectively, the
authors demonstrate that mothers are produced and regulated as
subjects in relation to space and place, and also that practices of
mothering produce spatial relationships. The scholars gathered here
bring interdisciplinary approaches from diverse fields including
women's and gender studies, sexuality studies, social geography,
sociology, anthropology, fine arts, literary studies, and film
studies. Chapters include submissions from authors who reference
the geographical contexts of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Argentina,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Eastern Caribbean, Great Britain,
Japan and Samoa, and the United States.
In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women's and Gender Studies (WGS)
practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its
commitment to activism and social change with community-based
learning in post-secondary institutions.Teaching about and for
social change has been a core value of the field since its
inception, and co-op, practica, and internships have long been part
of the curriculum in the professional schools. However, liberal
arts faculties are increasingly under pressure to integrate
community engagement practices and respond to labour market demands
for greater student ""employability."" That demand creates
challenges and possibilities as WGS programs and instructors adapt
to changing post-secondary agendas. This book examines how WGS
programs can continue to prioritize the foundational critiques of
inequality, power, privilege, and identity in the face of a
post-secondary push toward praxis as resume building, skills
acquisition, and the bridging of town-and-gown differences. It
pushes students to reflect critically on their own experiences with
feminist praxis through critical reflections offered by the
contributors along with examples of practical approaches to
community-based/experiential learning.
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