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Title Postborder city : cultural spaces of Bajalta California / edited by Michael Dear and Gustavo Leclerc ; with contributions by Jo-Anne Berelowitz [and others]
Published New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 305 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents Introduction : the postborder condition : art and urbanism in Bajalta California / Michael Dear & Gustavo Leclerc -- "Where are you going to be worthier?" (the border and the postborder) / Carlos Monsiváis -- Peopling Alta California / Phoebe Kropp & Michael Dear -- Peopling Baja California / Hector Manuel Lucero -- Global Tijuana : seven ecologies of the border / Lawrence Herzog -- Border art since 1965 / Jo-Anne Berelowitz -- Border representations : frontier cinema and independent video / Norma Iglesias -- 'Where am I at home?' the interplay of national, local, and imaginative space / Richard Cándida Smith -- Hybridities and histories : imaging the rim / David Palumbo-Liu -- Rewriting cultural studies in the borderlands -- Néstor García Canclini
Summary This title concerns the postborder metropolis of Bajalta, California, which stretches from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south. Immigrants flock to Southern California, while corporations are drawn to the low wage industry of the Mexican border towns
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Arts and society -- California, Southern
Arts and society -- Mexico -- Baja California (State)
Cities and towns -- California, Southern
Cities and towns -- Mexico -- Baja California (State)
Social change -- California, Southern
Social change -- Mexico -- Baja California (State)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Arts and society
Cities and towns
Intellectual life
International relations
Social change
Stadt
Kulturraum
Aufsatzsammlung
Urbanisatie.
Grensgebieden.
Cultuur.
Kunst.
SUBJECT California, Southern -- Intellectual life
Baja California (Mexico : State) -- Intellectual life
California, Southern -- Relations -- Mexico -- Baja California (State)
Baja California (Mexico : State) -- Relations -- California, Southern
Subject Southern California
Mexico -- Baja California (State)
Niederkalifornien
Form Electronic book
Author Dear, M. J. (Michael J.)
Leclerc, Gustavo
Berelowitz, Jo-Anne
LC no. 2003001961
ISBN 9781317794028
1317794028
9781317794035
1317794036
9781315810935
131581093X
9781317794011
131779401X