Power, Marginality, and Participation in Mexico City, 1870–2000

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-111
Author(s):  
John Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Authoritarian Regime ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Formal Development ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Traces changing economic ways and political participations in the Mexican capital from the era of late nineteenth liberalism and emerging informalities, into times of revolution after 1910, through the post-revolutionary turn to national capitalism and the construction of an authoritarian regime. With industrial boom after 1940, neither employment or resources proved sufficient to formal development in a rapidly expanding city, leading to barrio-based informal urbanization, as people built their own homes and new neighbourhoods—and turned to neighbourhood mobilizations to make demands and preserve limited gains. With globalization under NAFTA from 1990s, de-industrialization spread marginality while population continued to grow. The democratization of 2000 brought few gains to people facing marginal and informal lives in a city still the national capital, a pivot of power serving globalization, and the largest metropolitan region in the Americas.

Order, Progress, and the Black Market

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-170
Author(s):  
Andrew Konove
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Black Market ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Porfirio Diaz ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter examines the Baratillo’s relationship with Porfirian Mexico City, when the country’s autocratic president Porfirio Díaz sought to modernize the nation and its capital city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the events that led to the Baratillo’s relocation to the neighborhood of Tepito, in 1902. Facing the threat of the market’s closure, baratilleros bargained with the municipal government, reaching a compromise to move to Tepito—a location the vendors proposed themselves. The chapter contributes to recent scholarship that revises earlier depictions of the Porfiriato as a monolithic dictatorship, emphasizing instead the multiple ways that Mexico’s government and citizens maintained a tense and unequal peace for more than thirty years.

“An Urgent Need for Hygiene”

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-124
Author(s):  
Amanda M. López
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Siglo Xix

In 1909, the Mexico City Department of Public Works installed two crematory ovens in the capital’s municipal cemetery, the Panteón de Dolores, in culmination of a late nineteenth-century campaign by officials that advocated cremation as a modern and hygienic form of burial for all Mexicans. In practice, all classes rejected cremation and only the very poor were cremated. This essay examines the arguments for and against cremation and the implementation and daily practice surrounding cremation in Mexico City from the 1870s–1920. The establishment of cremation was part of the Porfirian project to modernize and sanitize Mexico that targeted the poor as an obstacle to progress. En 1909, el Departamento de Obras Públicas de la ciudad de México instaló dos hornos crematorios en el cementerio municipal de la capital, el Panteón de Dolores, en culminación de una campaña a finales del siglo XIX por los funcionarios que defendían la cremación como una forma moderna e higiénica de entierro para todos los mexicanos. En práctica, todas las clases rechazaron cremación y sólo los muy pobres fueron cremados. Este ensayo examina los argumentos a favor y en contra de la cremación y la implementación y la práctica diaria que rodea la cremación en la ciudad de México entre 1870–1920. El establecimiento de la cremación era parte del proyecto porfiriano de modernizar y desinfectar México que apuntó a los pobres como un obstáculo al progreso.

Cuban Communities in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Antonia Muller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Cuban Diaspora ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Migratory Patterns

This chapter closely examines the development of Cuban migrant communities in three Mexican cities: Veracruz, Merida, Mexico City and compares them to Cuban communities established in the United States. Examining migratory patterns, economy, politics, race, culture and interstate and cross regional connections, this chapter posits that shifting our focus away from the United States and centering on Mexico allows us to truly appreciate the breadth and scope of the nineteenth-century Cuban Diaspora.

From Transparency to Darkness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Piccato
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Jury Trials ◽  
History Of ◽  
President Elect ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter follows the history of criminal jury trials in Mexico City from their establishment in the late nineteenth century until their abolition in 1929. It focuses on the organization, legislation, and operation of the institution. It examines closely the trials of María del Pilar Moreno and José de León Toral, the murderer of president-elect Alvaro Obregón, and it places both in the context of contemporary politics.

Financialization of Housing in Mexico: The Case of Cuautitlan Izcalli and Huehuetoca in the Metropolitan Region of Mexico City

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-532
Author(s):  
Susanne Heeg ◽  
Maria Verónica Ibarra García ◽  
Luis Alberto Salinas Arreortua
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Metropolitan Region

Unfinished capital — unfinished state: How the modernization of Belgrade was prevented, 1890-1914

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dubravka Stojanović
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
The Poor ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
National Unification ◽  
National Boundaries

Today's pictures of Belgrade are not much different from late-nineteenth-century descriptions: messy streets, uncompleted infrastructure projects, lack of coordinated urban plans and strategies. No doubt all of this shows that the weak Serbian society never raised sufficient funds to invest in a glamorous-looking capital city. The most frequent excuse to justify the poor-looking conditions of the national capital has been found in the nation's struggle to fulfill an uncompleted project for national unification. For more than two centuries, the modern Serbian elite has remained unsatisfied with current national boundaries. This paper will address the question of how those unfulfilled national aspirations can be detected in the urban fabric of Belgrade.

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