Martha Muñoz Durán D. in Geography and Territorial Planning from the University of Guadalajara; she is a research candidate for the sni. Recent publications: (2021) "La producción de queso en los Altos de Jalisco y sur de Zacatecas. Una especialización dispersa", in Patricia Arias and Katia Lozano (coords.). From agriculture to specialization. Debates and case studies in Mexico. Gudalalajara: University of Guadalajara; (2017) "The evidence of success. Residencias y mausoleos en Santiaguito, Arandas, Jalisco" (with Imelda Sánchez), in Patricia Arias (coord.). Successful migrants. Social franchising as a model business. (2019) (with Patricia Arias and Imelda Sánchez). "Debajo del radar. Women's jobs in the Altos de Jalisco," in. Regional Economic Charter123, year 31.

EncArtes multimedia

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.