Tag: Mexico City

• Wrapping up field work (for now)

  The months of field work passed in a flash, and before I knew it I was back in the immigration line at JFK, crumpled documents in hand. After half a year in the endless spring of Mexico City, arriving back in New York during the swampiest month of the year was something of a shock.…

  philipljohnson

  November 17, 2018

  Field notes

  field work, Mexico City, narco-messages, nota roja

• Light reading turned heavy

  I brought one book with me, on my semester of research in Mexico City. This was an act of severe self-discipline, and resulted in me leaving a couple of half-read volumes on my shelf in Brooklyn. The book that made the cut was Francisco Goldman’s The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle. Goldman splits his time…

  philipljohnson

  May 30, 2018

  Books & films

  Ayotzinapa, books, Enrique Peña Nieto, Francisco Goldman, Mexico, Mexico City, Miguel Ángel Mancera, violence

• Narco-messages in Mexico City

  About two weeks before I moved to Mexico City to start my field research, a narco-message appeared over a major street in the city. This was a big deal; while thousands of these messages have appeared in cities and towns throughout the country, Mexico City is one of those places in which messages are regarded…

  philipljohnson

  May 7, 2018

  Research

  Enrique Peña Nieto, field work, Francisco Goldman, Mexico, Mexico City, Miguel Ángel Mancera, narco-messages

• You have to be there

  I am in Mexico City for the summer, doing some preliminary field work. Although I have visited the city a number of times, the last of these visits was some six years ago. So, along with attending a conference, meeting with various scholars down here, and actually getting on with some research, I was very…

  philipljohnson

  July 2, 2017

  Field notes

  field work, libraries, Mexico, Mexico City, science fiction