ABSTRACT

This book examines transborder Latin American sociocultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations. Gathering scholars from the "spatial sciences"—architecture, urban design, urban planning, and geography—as well as sociology, anthropology, history, and economics, the volume explores these transbordering practices of place making and community building across cultural and nation-state borders, examining different agents (individuals, ethnic and cultural groups, NGOs, government agencies) that are engaged in transnational/transborder living and city-making practices, reconceiving notions of state, identity, and citizenship and showing how subjected populations resist, adapt, or coproduce transnational/transborder projects and, in the process, help shape and are shaped as transborder subjects.

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

What Do We Mean by “Transbordering Latin Americas”?

part I|56 pages

Gender and Image Making

chapter 1|17 pages

On the Move

Globalizing Subcultures in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas

chapter 3|16 pages

“The Gang of the Barrio”

Invention and Negative Transnationalization of a Latin American Figure of Urbanity 1

part II|69 pages

Tourism and Transnational Planning

chapter 4|17 pages

Cusco

City of Memory

chapter 5|31 pages

Diasporic Tourism

Immigrant Politics and Place Making in Los Angeles's Plaza Mexico 1

chapter 6|19 pages

Multicultural Participatory Planning

Normative Ideals and Pragmatic Realities in Monteverde, Costa Rica

part III|68 pages

Place Making and Ideology

chapter 7|17 pages

Nations within Nations

Transnationalism and Indigenous Citizenship in Latin America

chapter 8|21 pages

Building New Geographies in Urban Mexico

The Case of the Casas GEO

chapter 9|28 pages

Global Mexico under Construction

The Santa Fe Megaproject in Mexico City

part IV|87 pages

Immigrant Ethnoscapes (T)Here

chapter 10|24 pages

¿La Guaca?

The Internationalization of the Colombian Housing Market

chapter 11|17 pages

Faraway Intimate Development

Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction 1

chapter 12|20 pages

Noche de Baile/A Dancing Night

Immigrants, Transnationalism, and Music in Japan

chapter 13|24 pages

The Archiculture of Immigration in the Borough of Tetuán (Madrid)

A Pedagogical Approach 1