Theses - Centre of Latin American Studies
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Becoming Japanese and Mexican: A Trans-Pacific Social History of Race, Mestizaje, and Resistance across Five Generations.
This thesis develops a socio-historical understanding of encoded systems of race, racialised violence and resistances by foregrounding the historical experiences of Mexican descendants of Japanese immigrants over five ... -
Curatorial Constellations: Queer and Feminist Approaches to Latin American Comics
This thesis takes queer and feminist approaches to contemporary alternative Latin American comics published between 2011 and 2020. Inspired by frameworks developed by Gayatri Gopinath, José Muñoz, Gloria Anzaldúa, and ... -
Envisioning Citizenship: Photographic Practice and Human Rights Activism in Contemporary Argentina
This thesis is a study of the visual culture of human rights movements in Argentina in the twenty- first century, looking specifically at the mobilisation of photography by activists. In each chapter, I cover different ... -
Mexico's federal open data and the possibilities of transparency
This study addresses the Mexican state’s sudden emergence at the vanguard of global open data rankings and transparency indices. I examine this turn to open data-led transparency by focusing on the work of daterxs – those ...
