The Decolonization of the “Conquest” in Mexico

The political leadership of Mexico is using the country’s double anniversary in 2021 to decolonize its Public History.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/9-2021-9/decolonization-conquest-mexico/

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Apologies for History

Mexico debates if Spain should apologize for crimes during the Conquista de México. The controversy shows the urgency to write a new history that fights contemporary racism and inequality.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-18/conquista-de-mexico/

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On Memories, School and Earthquakes

In September 2017 Mexico was struck by earthquakes. The ruins have triggered many debates. How can history studies young people to comprehend natural disasters as products of human responsibility?

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-36/on-memories-school-and-earthquakes/

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Projekt Hans Bouchard Mexikanische Social Media Communities #dhmasterclass

In meinem Forschungsvorhaben mit dem Arbeitstitel „Kulturen im Netz – Netz der Kulturen: Mexikanische Social Media Communities in den virtuell-medialen Räumen der Produktion und Vernetzung“ untersuche ich die Relationen zwischen den sozialen Plattformen, ihren Nutzern und Communities und der Produktion und Vernetzung anhand von Vertretern der mexikanischen Social Media Communities.

Zunächst ist zu klären, wie in dieser Arbeit soziale Medien definiert sind und wie sich diese strukturieren. Die Kernelemente der sozialen Medien bilden das Netzwerk-Element und das Content-Element, welche auf einigen Plattformen bspw. auf YouTube in der Kanalseite der einzelnen Benutzer konvergieren (angesehene/gelikte Videos als Content- sowie Netzwerkelement). Das Charakteristische der sozialen Medien besteht somit aus ihrer Dualität der Netzwerk-Elemente und Content-Elemente, wobei die Netzwerk-Elemente durch eine Verknüpfung des Nutzers, als auch durch automatische Strukturen und Ontologien der informationstechnischen Strukturen produziert werden. In der Konsequenz möchte ich soziale Medien im Allgemeinen als Portale/Plattformen zur Präsentation, Produktion und Distribution von digitalen Objekten (nach Yuk Hui 2012; 2016) beschreiben, welche unter dem folgenden Schema operieren:

Ziel ist es durch diese Betrachtung festzustellen, inwieweit man von einer Netzkultur sprechen kann und wie das Verhältnis der unterschiedlichen kulturellen Räume in den sozialen Medien verhandelt wird. Welche kulturellen Identitäten und Gruppen lassen sich finden, wodurch kennzeichnen sich diese und inwieweit unterscheiden sie sich von ihrem „Offline“-Äquivalent?

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Quelle: http://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/2966

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Borders In the Head: Comparing Mexican and Berlin Wall

In order to understand previous and contemporary political conflicts through history education in both formal and informal environments, it is imperative to comprehend what has happened and where a certain event has happened.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-23/borders-in-the-head-comparing-the-mexican-and-the-berlin-wall/

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The Dictator’s Slow Return. Porfirio Díaz

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El 2 de julio de 2015 se conmemoró el centenario luctuoso del dictador Porfirio Díaz, quien gobernó México, en la silla presidencial o detrás de ella, entre 1876 y 1910, cuando fue derrocado por la revolución mexicana. La opinión pública aprovechó la coyuntura para discutir una vez más sobre el significado de su figura en la historia de México, pero en el mundo educativo nada se modificó sustancialmente, pues los tiempo educativos son de larga duración. El significado histórico de Porfirio Díaz en los programas de estudio y los libros de texto se ha sedimentado: enseñar como legítima la desigualdad económica que lacera a México.[1]

 

Opiniones divididas

Porfirio Díaz es uno de los villanos[2] de la historia que mejor ha recuperado su imagen en la actualidad. Díaz fue un dictador. Su periodo, denominado Porfiriato, se caracterizó en lo político por reelecciones infinitas, violencia contra la oposición, control de la prensa y un centralismo autoritario. En lo social la desigualdad y la exclusión fueron las características centrales, con una pequeña élite inmensamente rica, grandes sectores de la población en indignante pobreza y algunos otros en semi esclavitud dentro de las haciendas.

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Quelle: http://public-history-weekly.oldenbourg-verlag.de/4-2016-17/dictators-slow-return-porfirio-diaz/

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History, Interculturality and Cognitive Pluriverses

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Public debates over the teaching of history in Mexico have focused on the inclusion of specific content and the interpretation of historical events that have marked the nation’s history. Nevertheless, contemporary didactic proposals have evaded the subject and have been concerned with the proximity between professional historical thought and its teaching, without modifying traditional historical narratives taught in schools. However, the pedagogical dispute about the inclusion of historical science in the classroom has pushed the country’s multicultural characteristics into the background. What does the teaching of contemporary history in Mexico include and exclude? How can the problem be thought of from an intercultural dimension?

 

The Politics of Interculturality

Driven by global policies in favor of the recognition of indigenous peoples[1] and by the confrontation with the political and armed movement of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN; Zapatista National Liberation Army), the Mexican government modified the Constitution and established, in 2002, that the Mexican nation “has a pluricultural composition upheld by its indigenous peoples who are those who descended from populations that inhabited the country’s current territory at the start of colonization and preserved their own institutions.”[2] This modification implied, at least legally, the abandonment of mestizo identity that spread with special force from the 1940s onwards, when schools served—and continue to serve in practice—as a central tool for its perpetuation. Since that time, the reforms in school curricula for teaching history, among other subjects, were forced to include the new focus on the nation’s identity.

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Quelle: http://public-history-weekly.oldenbourg-verlag.de/3-2015-33/history-interculturality-and-cognitive-pluriverses/

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43 Are Missing from the Teaching of History in Mexico

 

Mexico is experiencing a drawn-out crisis in human rights. The disappearance and subsequent murder of 43 students studying to be rural teachers last September is yet another example of this. At the same time, programs for studying history at the level of basic education and teacher training deny this reality.

 

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Mexico is experiencing a drawn-out crisis in human rights. The disappearance and subsequent murder of 43 students studying to be rural teachers last September is yet another example of this. At the same time, programs for studying history at the level of basic education and teacher training deny this reality by taking refuge in theoretical and methodological approaches produced for other national and cultural contexts. Which history should be taught to promote a just and fair Mexico?

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Quelle: http://public-history-weekly.oldenbourg-verlag.de/3-2015-15/43-are-missing-from-the-teaching-of-history-in-mexico/

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