Cartographies of Youth Resistance

In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcultures from hip-hop to punk and adopt creative organizing practices to create meaningful channels of participation in local social and political life. In the process, young people remake urban space and construct new identities in ways that directly challenge elite visions of their city and essentialist notions of what it means to be indigenous in the contemporary era. Cartographies of Youth Resistance is essential reading for students and scholars interested in youth politics and culture in Mexico, social movements, urban studies, and migration.

In noua sa carte interesanta, bazata pe un deceniu de munca de teren etnografica, Maurice Magaña ia in considerare modul in care tinerii urbani si migranti din Oaxaca imbratiseaza subculturile de la hip-hop la punk si adopta practici creative de organizare pentru a crea canale semnificative de participare la viata sociala si politica locala. In acest proces, tinerii refac spatiul urban si construiesc noi identitati in moduri care provoaca in mod direct viziuni de elita asupra orasului lor si notiuni esentiale despre ceea ce inseamna a fi indigen in epoca contemporana.