Jose Vasconcelos and His World

Grass, Roland; Beer, Gabriella de

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“…There is an apparent contradiction in Vasconcelos' racial conceptualisation. While he flags up the significant extent to which race was used as a method to place Latin American peoples in an inferior position and justify a variety of political actions (among which imperialism), he nonetheless readopts a racial discourse to overturn such a position (important analyses of Vasconcelos' work are Camargo, 2007; De Beer, 1966; Fell, 1989; Garrido, 1963; Grijalva, 2004; Miranda, 2009; Pacheco Finella, 1967; Pineda Buitrago, 2013; Stavans, 2011; Taracena, 1982). As for the relation between racism and the Mexican Revolution, Alain Knight stated that ‘the mestizo … became the ideological symbol of the new [post‐revolutionary] regime’ (1990, p. 86) and, as a part of that operation, Vasconcelos' re‐appropriation of racialising colonial techniques has been heavily criticised (for instance, see Manrique, 2016).…”

Section: Subaltern Geopolitics: the Myth Of Atlantis And The Cosmic Racementioning

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Subverting geopolitics: The reinvention of geography in post‐revolutionary Mexico

Vegliò

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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Within the enduring effort to rethink geography from multiple viewpoints and new conceptual categories, critical geographers have recently sought to ‘decentralise geopolitics’ (An, Sharp, and Shaw, 2021, Dialogues in Human Geography, 11(2), 270) by proposing alternative analyses that can tackle the Eurocentric stance that has largely defined the field. This paper contributes to this decentralising effort by bringing to light, historically, an anti‐imperial discourse that took the form of a proper geographical invention. Specifically, the paper analyses the thought of the Mexican intellectual José Vasconcelos – who acted as Secretary of Public Education in the aftermath of the Revolution (1921–1924) – and argues that Vasconcelos' discourse represents a ‘subaltern’ intervention against the imperial presuppositions of the new‐born discipline of geopolitics. The paper contends that Vasconcelos' thought constitutes a conscious attempt, although clearly imbued with ‘postcolonial’ tensions and contradictions, to challenge the ‘scientific’ basis of the emerging geopolitical discourse at that time. By analysing Vasconcelos' geographical and geo‐social imagination through his recuperation of the myth of Atlantis and the idea of Cosmic Race, the paper illuminates an early operation of ‘subaltern geopolitics’ (Sharp, 2011, Geoforum, 42, 271) that aimed to contrast the new wave of Western imperialism which, intensively nurtured by socio‐environmentalist narratives, defined the turn of the twentieth century.

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Section: Subaltern Geopolitics: the Myth Of Atlantis And The Cosmic Racementioning

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Subverting geopolitics: The reinvention of geography in post‐revolutionary Mexico

Vegliò

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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Subverting geopolitics: The reinvention of geography in post‐revolutionary Mexico

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