Visible Ruins
The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico's Revolution
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2024
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2871-2 (ISBN)
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2871-2 (ISBN)
An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records.
The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability; state surveyors assessed land for agrarian reform, engineers used nationalized oil for industrialization, archaeologists reconstructed pre-Hispanic monuments for tourism, and anthropologists studied and photographed Indigenous populations to achieve their acculturation. Far from accomplishing their stated goals, however, these initiatives concealed violence, and permitted land invasions, forced displacement, environmental damage, loss of democratic freedom, and mass killings. Mónica M. Salas Landa uses the history of northern Veracruz to demonstrate how these state-led efforts reshaped the region's social and material landscapes, affecting what was and is visible. Relying on archival sources and ethnography, she uncovers a visual order of ongoing significance that was established through postrevolutionary projects and that perpetuates inequality based on imperceptibility.
The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability; state surveyors assessed land for agrarian reform, engineers used nationalized oil for industrialization, archaeologists reconstructed pre-Hispanic monuments for tourism, and anthropologists studied and photographed Indigenous populations to achieve their acculturation. Far from accomplishing their stated goals, however, these initiatives concealed violence, and permitted land invasions, forced displacement, environmental damage, loss of democratic freedom, and mass killings. Mónica M. Salas Landa uses the history of northern Veracruz to demonstrate how these state-led efforts reshaped the region's social and material landscapes, affecting what was and is visible. Relying on archival sources and ethnography, she uncovers a visual order of ongoing significance that was established through postrevolutionary projects and that perpetuates inequality based on imperceptibility.
Mónica M. Salas Landa is an assistant professor of anthropology and sociology at Lafayette College.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Governing through Perception
Chapter 1. Documents: The Aesthetics of Agrarian Reform
Chapter 2. Infrastructures: The Aesthetics of Economic Nationalism
Chapter 3. Pre-Hispanic Remains: The Aesthetics of Monumental Reconstruction
Chapter 4. Photographs: The Aesthetics of Indigenismo
Epilogue: Reconfiguring Dissent
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.04.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Visualidades: Studies in Latin American Visual History |
Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 626 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4773-2871-8 / 1477328718 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-2871-2 / 9781477328712 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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