Public History in Mexico: Memories, Displacements, and Intimacies [Paperback]

Introduction??Memories of the Urban??1. Public History in the Making. The Pueblos Originarios of Mexico City: Memory, Territory, and Legal Status? 2. Memories of the Urban Past: The Experience of Metropolitan Histories? 3. Stories of El Pari?n: Public History as an Organizing Tool in Urban Community-Based Processes??Periphery and Erasure??4. Memory, Trauma, and Resilience: Stories of the 19S Earthquake? 5. Periferia gr?fica? 6. Creating Memory and the Reimagining of the Edge of Tenochtitlan??Exclusion Beyond Mexico City??7. The Self-Taught Border Art of the Deported: Luis Sotero??8. Humanizing Deportation: An Archive of Migrant Knowledge? 9. Unveiling Feminist Cartography in Yucatan: From the First Feminist Congress of 1916 to the First Women to Hold Elected Office in 1923??Re-Placing the Museum??10. Relic, Connection, Loss: Public History and Community Narratives in Mexico? 11. From Praxis to Production: The Symbolic Displacements of Linguistic Patrimony in Mexicos Nineteenth Century? 12. A Community Museum in the City: Heritage and Public Uses of the Past in Valle de Chalco Solidaridad??Intimate Spaces??13. Between Joy and Frailty: Minimal Stories of Dwelling in Mexico City? 14. The Invisibles of the Arts: Stories of Performance Artists from Confinement? 15. Stuck at Home: A Comic on Covid-19

This collection of chapters explores how history is created, shared, and contested in urban and marginalized spaces by examining memory, displacement, resilience, and community-driven historical interventions across Mexico.

Bridging academic research with lived experiences, the book shows how public history is a powerful tool that both reflects on the past and projects more egalitarian futures of justice, representation, and cultural affirmation. Centred mainly around Mexico City, but also touching on the impact of migration at the northló,