Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico by Castellanos, M. Bianet
Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico by Castellanos, M. Bianet

Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico

Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the...
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Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico by Castellanos, M. Bianet

Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico

CHF 54.27
Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico by Castellanos, M. Bianet

Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico

CHF 54.27
Author: M. Bianet Castellanos
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. For Indigenous peoples, access to affordable housing remains crucial to alleviating poverty. But as palapas, traditional thatch and wood houses, are replaced by tract houses in the Yucatán Peninsula, Indigenous peoples' relationship to land, urbanism, and finance is similarly transformed, revealing a legacy of debt and dispossession.

Indigenous Dispossession examines how Maya families grapple with the ramifications of neoliberal housing policies. M. Bianet Castellanos relates Maya migrants' experiences with housing and mortgage finance in Cancún, one of Mexico's fastest-growing cities. Their struggle to own homes reveals colonial and settler colonial structures that underpin the city's economy, built environment, and racial order. But even as Maya people contend with predatory lending practices and foreclosure, they cultivate strategies of resistance--from waiting out the state, to demanding Indigenous rights in urban centers. As Castellanos argues, it is through these maneuvers that Maya migrants forge a new vision of Indigenous urbanism.



Author: M. Bianet Castellanos
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 12/15/2020
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781503614345

About the Author
M. Bianet Castellanos is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún (2010).
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