Imelda Sánchez García is an engineer in Livestock Systems and holds a master's degree in Sustainable Animal Production from the Centro Universitario de los Altos of the University of Guadalajara. Recent publications: (2021) "Conservando el sabor con tradición: Panificadora La Alteña (with Elia Rodríguez), in Cándido González Pérez (comp.). Production of identity food from the southern highlands of Jalisco. Tepatitlán: Universidad de Guadalajara; (2021) "La producción porcina en La Piedad, Michoacán, y los Altos de Jalisco", in Patricia Arias and Katia Lozano (coords.). From agriculture to specialization. Debates and case studies in Mexico. Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara; (2021) (with Martha Muñoz Durán) "La venta de hierba blanca y verde: los taqueros de Santiaguito de Velázquez", in Cándido González Pérez (comp.). Production of identity food from the southern highlands of Jalisco. Tepatitlán: University of Guadalajara.

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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.