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 viiForeword. A Line in the Sand / Iain Chambers ixIntroduction. The Factory of Dreams / Josh Kun and Fiamma Montzemolo 11. Welcome Tu Tijuana / Roberto Castillo 212. Snapshots from and about a City Named Tijuana / Humberto Félix Berumen 253. Tijuanologies: An Urban Essay / Heriberto Yépez 474. Globalization in Tijuana Maquiladoras: Using Historical Antecedents and Migration to Test Globalization Models / Kathryn Kopinak 715. (Conversation with) Néstor García Canclini, on How Tijuana Ceased to Be the Laboratory of Postmodernity / Fiamma Montezemolo 946. Postcards from the Border: In Tijuana, Revolución Is an Avenue / Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez 1177. Illicit Acts of Urbanism / René Peralto 1368. The Transborder Metropolis in Question: The Case of Tijuana and San Diego / Tito Alegría 1489. Practices of Encroachment: Urban Waste Moves Southbound; Illegal Zoning Seeps into North / Teddy Cruz 17510. Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border / Michelle Téllez 19011. La Canción de Tijuana: The Song of Tijuana / Guillermo Fadanelli 21212. ¿Todos somos ciudadanos?: Artistic Production and Agency in Tijuana / Lucía Sanromán 21913. Bioethnograhy of an Artist: Ingrid Hernández / Fiamma Montezemolo 24014. Borderline Archaeology / Jesse Lerner 26415. Redefining Sodom: A Latter-Day Vision of Tijuana / Jennifer Insley-Pruitt 27716. Crossfader Playlist / Rafa Saavedra 30017. Counterculture, Rockers, Punks, New Romantics, and Mods in Tijuana / Ejival 32918. Borderline Ghosts: From Touch of Evil to Maquilapolis: City of Factories / Tarek Elhaik 33919. The Kidnapped City / Josh Kun 35520. The Line / Luis Humberto Crosthwaite 370Contributors 375Index 381