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Established in 1659 as Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juárez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border-and one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, Juárez has been marked by different forms of conquest and the quest for wealth as an elaborate matrix of gender, class, and ethnic hierarchies struggled for dominance. Juxtaposing the early Spanish invasions of the region with the arrival of late-twentieth-century industrial "conquistadors," Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts documents the consequences of imperial history through in-depth ethnographic studies of working-class factory life. By comparing the social and human consequences of recent globalism with the region's pioneer era, Alejandro Lugo demonstrates the ways in which class mobilization is itself constantly being "unmade" at both the international and personal levels for border workers. Both an inside account of maquiladora practices and a rich social history, this is an interdisciplinary survey of the legacies, tropes, economic systems, and gender-based inequalities reflected in a unique cultural landscape. Through a framework of theoretical conceptualizations applied to a range of facets—from multiracial "mestizo" populations to the notions of border "crossings" and "inspections," as well as the recent brutal killings of working-class women in Ciudad Juárez—Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts provides a critical understanding of the effect of transnational corporations on contemporary Mexico, calling for official recognition of the desperate need for improved working and living conditions within this community.

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Aux yeux du monde, le Nicaragua échappe rarement à son image de petit pays pauvre de l'isthme centraméricain, destiné à ne faire la « Une » des journaux qu'en cas de révolution ou de catastrophe naturelle, comme l'a montré le passage du cyclone Mitch en octobre 1998. Pourtant, son histoire héroïque et tragique, mais aussi la force et la richesse de ses courants littéraires, font que l'ancienne « terre des lacs et des volcans » occupe une place à part dans l'imaginaire des Européens. C'est pour tenter de donner une réalité à cet imaginaire, mais aussi pour actualiser notre connaissance d'un pays qui condense les mutations actuelles de l'Amérique latine, que ce livre a vu lejour à la suite d'un colloque international organisé à Lorient par l'Université de Bretagne-Sud (novembre 1999). En croisant les regards d'historiens, de géographes, de sociologues, d'anthropologues, de politologues et de spécialistes de la littérature latino-américaine, il permettra au lecteur de franchir la frontière mythique du Rio Coco et de découvrir que, derrière les images d'Épinal ou la rhétorique révolutionnaire, il existe en Amérique centrale un vrai pays nommé Nicaragua. Habitualmente, Nicaragua esta considerada desde el extranjero como un pais pequefio y pobre de América Central, que no merece la atencion de los medios de comunicacion sino cuando ocurre una revolucién ο algun desastre natural, como fue el caso en octubre de 1998 con el huracân Mitch. Sin embargo, tanto por su historia heroica y trâgica como por la fuerza y riqueza de sus corrientes literarias, la antigua «tierra de lagos y volcanes» ocupa un lugar aparté en el imaginario de los Europeos. Después de un coloquio internacional organizado en la ciudad de Lorient (Francia) por la Université de Bretagne-Sud (noviembre de 1999), este libro sale a la luz con el doble objetivo de darle una realidad a este imaginario y de actualizar nuestro conocimiento de un pais que condensa las transformaciones actuales de America Latina.…

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