Voices of Mexico no. 112
Our Voice
David Bowie sings, “Turn and face the strange/changes,” and I think of how shortsighted, naïve, and optimistic I was eight months ago —which feel like eight lifetimes ago— when I heard the Coordinator of Humanities, a contributor to this issue, say we were on the brink of an epochal change.
Facing the unfamiliar. Experiencing how the unknown takes control of our bodies, dilutes the borders of our spaces, transforms our perception of time, expels us from ourselves as, paradoxically, we are forced to isolate, to learn new ways of socializing, teaching, and learning.
Change is the thread running through this issue of Voices of Mexico, which seeks to advance our understanding of this period that, like a painful parody of Luis Buñuel’s film The Exterminating Angel, keeps us locked down, incapable of fully deciphering the reasons for our confinement and uncertainty.
Our Voice
Graciela Martínez-Zalce
Change
Times of Change, Changing Times
The Temporal Disturbance of COVID-19
Guadalupe Valencia García
Populism: A Dangerous Change
Paz Consuelo Márquez-Padilla
The United States
Exceptionalism and Heterodoxy
Leonardo Curzio
COVID-19 and “Zoomist”
Forced Migration
Ariadna Estévez
Deportation in Times of COVID-19
The Case of Unaccompanied Minors
Elisa Ortega Velázquez
The Economics of Change
In Latin America and Everywhere
Héctor Juan Villarreal Páez
The Labor Market Crisis in the
United States and Mexico
Carmen Sánchez Cumming
Mexico’s Environmental
Crisis, a Step Backwards?
Iván Zúñiga
The New Normal in Universities
Daily Life and Pandemics
Paola Virginia Suárez Ávila
Illustrated by Tania Díaz
MLiving Out of Body
Juan Carlos Barrón Pastor
Computers Aren’t Going to Replace
Us, But They Just Might Sell Us
Rodrigo Leal Cervantes
Reawakenings
Alberto Palacios
The Current Change,
A Conceptual Incongruity?
Ángeles Eraña
Women’s Freedom: A Change to Come
Mariana Abreu Olvera
Mexico City and Its Crisis
Of the Modern Paradigm
José Ignacio Lanzagorta García
Reviews
Discrimination and Privileges in Skilled
Migration. Mexican Professionals in Texas
by Elizabeth Salamanca
Art and Culture
Virtual, the New In-Person
Cultural Industry Leaders
Discuss the “New Normal”
Interviews with Marisol Schulz Manaut,
Leonardo García Tsao, Daniela Michel,
And Karen Cordero
Diego Ignacio Bugeda Bernal
Another Materiality
Irene Artigas Albarelli
Illustrated by Xanic Galván
Poems
Valeria List
Illustrated by Santiago Moyao
After the Storm Comes the Music
Ernesto Flores
The Performative
Body’s Representation
In Dance and the Pandemic
María Antonieta Mendívil
Mutation
Gretta Penélope Hernández