Julio César Castro Saavedra is a civil engineer from the Universidad Veracruzana and a student of Geography at the Universidad de Guadalajara. National Research Assistant sni. Building and road works in the state of Guanajuato.

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Praise of Diversity: The New Monuments of the Rural World

  • Imelda Sánchez García
  • Julio César Castro Saavedra
  • Martha Muñoz Durán
  • Patricia arias

The video and text accompanying this article are based on a peculiar type of source: the monuments and statues in public spaces that account for three major and profound transformations in the Mexican rural world. On the one hand, the change in the axis of economic activities, a process that has given rise to specializations that have helped neighbors to remain in their communities or, at least, to mitigate the exodus that has led to depopulation in so many places. On the other hand, although closely linked to the above, the emergence of local actors with interests, resources and projects that have been able to appropriate the new development discourses. Finally, the monuments show the current ways of intervention of the public space by emerging collectives in traditionally agrarian societies.