Tag: memory

• 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…

  philipljohnson

  August 4, 2018

  Place & memory

  Cuernavaca, Javier Sicilia, Malcolm Lowry, memory, Mexico, Movimiento por la Paz

• 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…

  philipljohnson

  July 21, 2018

  Place & memory

  Guadalajara, memory, San Fernando, violence