Joel Pedraza Mandujano He is a doctoral student in Social Sciences at CIESAS-Occidente, his research topics include migration, communication, technologies and youth. Outstanding publications: "Social networks and communicative meaning in Mexican Migration Networks in the US" in The digital transformation in public sphere (2016)

Entrevistas

Masculinities in northern Mexico

Interview with
  • Misael Hernandez

  • Joel Pedraza Mandujano

The Dr. Misael Hernández, research professor at El Colegio de la Frontera based in Matamoros, talks about how new masculinities are constructed from gender studies and cultural studies. The researcher makes a historical review about the subject and the way in which it has interacted with other fields, such as studies queer. It delves into the way in which the concept of hegemonic masculinity has changed, both temporally and geographically, throughout history from the 1980s to now.

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School of cross-border studies

Interview with
  • Carlos Velez-Ibáñez

  • Joel Pedraza Mandujano

As part of the activities of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, we interviewed Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, founder, professor and director of the School of Cross-Border Studies at Arizona State University (asu for its acronym in English). He told us about the history, academic programs and research projects that are developed at the School, focused on migrants and children of migrants. He also described a project for the digitization of maps dating from the century xvi to the century xix from the southwestern United States, particularly Arizona, New Mexico, and California.

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Social sciences here and now: meanings and perspectives of the research profession

Interview with
  • Alan knight

  • Claudio Palma Mancilla
  • Joel Pedraza Mandujano

In the framework of the conference Social Sciences Here and Now. Senses and Perspectives of the Research Profession, developed at Ciesas Occidente on November 6 and 7, 2014, we had the opportunity to interview the English historian Alan Knight, from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Oxford. The meeting not only served as a platform for debate and communication between the exhibitors and attendees, but also to dialogue on a more personal level with researchers about the themes and central axes on which it was discussed in the work meetings.