Tijuana Dreaming

<div><i>Tijuana Dreaming</i> is an unprecedented introduction to the arts culture politics and economics of contemporary Tijuana Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars journalists bloggers novelists poets curators and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico. They explore urban planning in light of Tijuana's unique infrastructural demographic and environmental challenges. They delve into its musical countercultures architectural ruins cinema and emergence as a hot spot on the international art scene. One contributor examines fictional representations of Tijuana's past as a Prohibition-era city of sin for U.S. pleasure seekers. Another reflects on the city's recent struggles with kidnappings and drug violence. In an interview Néstor García Canclini revisits ideas that he advanced in <i>Culturas híbridas</i> (1990) his watershed book about Latin America and cultural hybridity. Taken together the selections present a kaleidoscopic portrait of a major border city in the age of globalization.<p><i>Contributors</i>. Tito Alegría Humberto Félix Berumen Roberto Castillo Udiarte Iain Chambers Luis Humberto Crosthwaite Teddy Cruz Ejival Tarek Elhaik Guillermo Fadanelli Néstor García Canclini Ingrid Hernández Jennifer Insley-Pruitt Kathryn Kopinak Josh Kun Jesse Lerner Fiamma Montezemolo Rene Peralta Rafa Saavedra Lucía Sanromán Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez Heriberto Yépez</p></div>