Tijuana Dreaming 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 Culturas híbridas (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.
Contributors. 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

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword. A Line in the Sand / Iain Chambers ix
Introduction. The Factory of Dreams / Josh Kun and Fiamma Montzemolo 1
1. Welcome Tu Tijuana / Roberto Castillo 21
2. Snapshots from and about a City Named Tijuana / Humberto Félix Berumen 25
3. Tijuanologies: An Urban Essay / Heriberto Yépez 47
4. Globalization in Tijuana Maquiladoras: Using Historical Antecedents and Migration to Test Globalization Models / Kathryn Kopinak 71
5. (Conversation with) Néstor García Canclini, on How Tijuana Ceased to Be the Laboratory of Postmodernity / Fiamma Montezemolo 94
6. Postcards from the Border: In Tijuana, Revolución Is an Avenue / Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez 117
7. Illicit Acts of Urbanism / René Peralto 136
8. The Transborder Metropolis in Question: The Case of Tijuana and San Diego / Tito Alegría 148
9. Practices of Encroachment: Urban Waste Moves Southbound; Illegal Zoning Seeps into North / Teddy Cruz 175
10. Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border / Michelle Téllez 190
11. La Canción de Tijuana: The Song of Tijuana / Guillermo Fadanelli 212
12. ¿Todos somos ciudadanos?: Artistic Production and Agency in Tijuana / Lucía Sanromán 219
13. Bioethnograhy of an Artist: Ingrid Hernández / Fiamma Montezemolo 240
14. Borderline Archaeology / Jesse Lerner 264
15. Redefining Sodom: A Latter-Day Vision of Tijuana / Jennifer Insley-Pruitt 277
16. Crossfader Playlist / Rafa Saavedra 300
17. Counterculture, Rockers, Punks, New Romantics, and Mods in Tijuana / Ejival 329
18. Borderline Ghosts: From Touch of Evil to Maquilapolis: City of Factories / Tarek Elhaik 339
19. The Kidnapped City / Josh Kun 355
20. The Line / Luis Humberto Crosthwaite 370
Contributors 375
Index 381

Josh Kun is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America and coeditor of Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies.

Fiamma Montezemolo is an anthropologist and artist currently teaching in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Faceless: Ethnicity and Gender in the Zapatista Movement and a co-author of Here Is Tijuana! Iain Chambers teaches cultural and postcolonial studies at the Orientale University of Naples. He is the author, most recently, of Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity, also published by Duke University Press.