Cartographies of Youth Resistance

Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico

Maurice Rafael Magaña

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780520344617
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520975583
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Mexican History
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Cartographies of Youth Resistance
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Acronyms and Organizations
• Introduction • Rethinking Social Movement Temporality and Spatiality through Counterspace and Urban Youth Culture
• 1 • Building Youth Counterspaces, Horizontal Political Cultures, and Emergent Identities in the Oaxacan Social Movement of 2006
• 2 • Urban Autonomy, Indigenous Anarchisms, and Other Political Genealogies for the 2006 Generation
• 3 • Urban Youth Collectives as Laboratories for Constructing and Spatializing Horizontal Politics in Post-2006 Oaxaca
• 4 • Networking Counterspaces, Constellations of Resistance, and the Politics of Rebel Aesthetics
• 5 • Rebel Aesthetics: Giving Form to the 2006 Generation’s Liberationist Imagination through Street Art, Punk, and Hip-Hop
• Conclusion • Shifting Cartographies of (Youth) Resistance
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index