“Gambusinos del México moderno”: Cancun and the Caribbean Border as a Joint for the National Narrative

 

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف: Velasco Ruiz, Luis Alberto
التنسيق: artículo original
الحالة:Versión publicada
تاريخ النشر:2023
الوصف:In the following article, I present an alternative version of Cancun’s history that attempts to go beyond the discourse of the foreign enclave of “sea, sun and sand” tourism, by exploring the implications that the project had for national sovereignty as the last pioneering front in the “conquest of the East”. Through a cross-referencing of primary and secondary sources, I propose an ethnography of the history of Cancun, ranging from the implementation of the project and the early years of the city (1968-1977), to the junctures that marked, onwards, the construction of an ad hoc historical present. The objective is to understand how this emblem of international tourism negotiates its local identity by claiming belonging to the nation and the Caribbean, without disregarding the pioneering nativism erected as its foundation myth. This allows us to glimpse to what extent the invention of this new Mexican Caribbean destabilizes or updates the borders of the national narrative.
البلد:Portal de Revistas UCR
المؤسسة:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
اللغة:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/57036
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/intercambio/article/view/57036
كلمة مفتاحية:New towns
sovereignty
migration
history
national identity
Ciudad nueva
soberanía
migración
historia
identidad nacional
Cidade nova
soberania
migração
história
identidade nacional