Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism
In: Antipode Book Series
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures and Table -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- A View from Motul, Yucatán -- Old Frontier/New Frontier -- Tales of Boom-to-Bust: Green Gold and Blue Jeans -- Producing Mayaland -- Instances of Magic -- Mobilizing Lefebvre's Triad -- Capturing the Production of Space -- Chapter Outline -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Postcolonizing Lefebvre? -- Navigating Eurocentrism -- The Rawness of Capitalism -- Global but not universal -- A colonial matrix of power -- A Postcolonial Spatial Approach -- Everyday Life -- A Planetary Urban Fabric -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Maquiladora Paradise -- The "Backward South" -- The Assets -- The geographically privileged and abundant tropics -- The dutiful worker -- A road paved for business -- No hurdles on the road -- "Yucatán offers good living"18 -- New World Exoticism -- Maquiladora paradises -- The taming and commodification of exotic nature -- Traces of Abstract Space -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Magical Maya -- Dutiful Mayan Workers -- Myths of maquila bodies -- Mayan Essence -- Ancient glory, modern decay -- Transfiguration: from ambivalent Indio to oscillating mestizo -- Cosmic Race: The Demise of the Indio Through Abstract Space? -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Zone -- The Factory -- Montgomery industries -- The Montgomery "maquiladores" -- A matter of destiny: the hands that have always bled -- Sheltering Capitalism -- Tricks in space and time: traveling the world with the made in Mexico brand -- Footloose: when the logic of exception is the norm -- Answering the need for homogenous difference -- Coloniality of Power and Abstractions at Work -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The Maquila Leftovers -- Invisible Remnants -- Industrial ghosts -- White elephants -- Blue moon -- A Lesser Evil -- Cyclical Relics.