Category: Place & memory
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Returning to Cuernavaca
Since moving back to Mexico to conduct research, I realise again and again just how much my dissertation research is grounded in earlier, pre-academia memories of this place. My years living in Guadalajara first put the questions in my head that years later I finally have the tools and means to examine. I have spent…
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Reflecting on Guadalajara
Before I started doctoral (or even graduate) studies, and before I moved to New York, I lived in Guadalajara. I spent those years as a third grade teacher in a bilingual school (still can’t believe how few contact hours college teaching involves, in comparison), and travelled throughout Mexico. Returning to the country for presearch last…
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The magic of Tecozautla
Mexico City is a great base for doing field work (and also for not getting any work done), but is very much its own bubble. I had to take at least a peek beyond the bubble, during my weeks here. Tecozautla, in Hidalgo state, is a pueblo magico. Back when I first lived in Mexico,…
Philip Luke Johnson 