1. Introduction - Chapter Outline - Why Study Mexico? - Social Relations, Society, and Space: What Is Social Geography? - Indigenous Mexico - Indigenous Civilizations - Indigenous Technology - Mestizaje - Indigenous Identity and Mestizaje - 20th- and 21st-Century Mexico - La Dictádura Perfecta - Shifts from PRI Economics to Neoliberalism - Zapatismo - Multicultural Mexico? - Methods and Book Online - Chapter 2: Shrines of the Times: The Social Geographies of Contested Space in Tepito and the Historic Center of Mexico City - Chapter 3: Identity and Place: The Social Geographies in the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca - Chapter 4: The Social Geographies of Tijuana: Urbanization at the U.S.-Mexico Border - Chapter 5: In the Dumps: The Social Geographies of Trash - Chapter 6: Zoque Indigenous-Produced Space: Social Geographies of Los Chimalapas - Who Is This Book For? - How to Use this Book - Suggested Readings 2. Shrines of the Times: The Social Geographies of Contested Space in Tepito and the Historic Center of Mexico City - Chapter Outline - A Brief History of Mexico City - What Is La Santa Muerte? - Santa Muerte Worshippers in the Tepito Neighborhood - Rapid Urbanization and Economic Shifts from ISI to Neoliberalism - The Implosion of ISI - Vignette: Migration, Emigration, and Neoliberalism - The Production of the Informal Economy - Coping with Neoliberalism - Saving the Historic Center? But from Whom and for Whom? El Programa de Rescate del Centro Histórico - The Appropriation or Rebranding of Tepito - The Appropriation of Urban Space through Street Vending, Worship, and Food: Día de los Muertos in Tepito at Number 12 Alfarería Street - Neoliberal Success? - Conclusion - Discussion Questions - Suggested Readings 3. Identity and Place: The Social Geographies in the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca - Singing the National Anthem in Mexico City - Where Is the Costa Chica Today? - Regions in Oaxaca and Guerrero - Africans in Mexico - Vignette: Geography Matters: Human-Environment-Diasporic Interactions and Environmental Determinism - Afromexicanos of La Costa Chica: A Legendary History - Mestizaje-Raza Cosmica - Identity and Regions - Indigeneity and the Emergent Afromexicano Civil Society - From Indigenous Autonomy to Black Recognition - Fissures between Place and Identity - Does Getting Counted Count? Economic and Social Development in the Costa Chica - Discussion Questions - Suggested Readings 4. The Social Geographies of Tijuana: Urbanization at the U.S.
-Mexico Border - Migration, Irregular Settlements and Neighborhood Formation - Introduction - Where Is Tijuana? - Tijuana''s Topography and Its Impacts on the Environment - A City Shaped from Both Sides - Vice Tourism and Urban Expansion - Social Geographies of Housing in Tijuana: Irregular Settlements - PRONAF and Geographies of Uneven Urbanization - Border City Morphology - The Border Industrialization Program (BIP) and Urbanization - A Cosmopolitan Mexican City: Demographics and Economic Diversification - Tijuanenses Embody the Social Geographies of Music and Gastronomy - Tijuana Music - Tijuana Gastronomy - The Mexican Dream in Tijuana? - Discussion Questions - Suggested Readings 5. In the Dumps: The Social Geographies of Trash - Waiting on the Trash Man - Chapter Outline - Who Are the Pepenadores ? - Demographics and Garbage - Conceptualizing the Value of Garbage - A Day in the Life of Mexico City Garbage - Vignette: The Temporal-Social Construction of Value - Pepenador Efficiency, the Informal Economy, and the Social Structure of Urban Mexico - Pepenadores, Caciques --Client Patron Relations, and the Social Structure of Urban Mexico - The Neoliberalization of Garbage - Environmental Activism and the Closing of Bordo-Poniente Landfill - The Professionalization of Caciqusmo: la Confederación Nacional de Industriales de Metales y Recicladores (CONIMER) - Alpuyeca Does Not Want Mexico City Trash - Can La Pepena Be Included in Mexico City''s Waste Management Transformation? - Discussion Questions - Suggested Reading 6. Zoque Indigenous-Produced Space: Social Geographies of Los Chimalapas - Introduction - The Second Most Remote Region in All of Mexico - Reverse Settler Colonialism - State Government Structure, Customs and Traditions, and Communal Property Communities in Los Chimalapas - Structures in Los Chimalapas - Geography, Resources, and Politics in Los Chimalapas - Confrontation and Cooptation in Los Chimalapas - The Conflation of Nature and Society in Los Chimalapas - Ethnospatial Politics - Conclusion - Discussion Questions - Suggested Resource.