Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Journal Title
Mediaciones
Volume Number
19
Issue Number
30
First Page
155
Last Page
170
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26620/uniminuto.mediaciones.19.30.2023.155-170
Version
Publisher PDF: the final published version of the article, with professional formatting and typesetting
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a CC BY License.
Disciplines
Communication
Abstract
Paradoxically both immigration and indigeneity are common conditions for exclusion from full citizenship in contemporary settler nation-states. Marginalized populations such as immigrants and Indigenous groups, resist the homogenizing rules dictated by dominant notions of culture and citizenship deployed by settler colonial states, entailing often hegemonic practices of control from institutions, such as the school and media. This essay discusses the creation of a transborder space between Mexico and the US named “Oaxacalifornia”. This “deterritorial” space was named and is maintained by Mexican Indigenous migrants from the state of Oaxaca who spend their daily lives interacting through communicative and civic practices of resurgence and solidarity. These practices enable the interaction with multiple locations and groups of people, fostering grassroots cosmopolitanism, or a worldly engagement challenging the oppressive forces of globalization, such as the state, the dominant cultural spheres, and the market; and the creation of spaces of diversity, resurgence, and solidarity.
Digital USD Citation
Mercado, Antonieta, "Oaxacalifornia: Indigenous Transnational Spaces as Grassroots Cosmopolitanism" (2023). Communication Studies: Faculty Scholarship. 13.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/commstudies_facpub/13