MAQUILÁPOLIS: Subjects and Topics
by Josephine Eberhardt
1. Work
1.1. workplace
1.1.1. hierarchies
1.1.2. work shifts
1.1.3. manufacturing components for technology
1.2. labor rights violation
1.3. migration
1.4. work place organizing
1.4.1. labor unions
1.4.2. promotoras
1.4.3. resisting
1.5. site of (re-) production
1.5.1. monetized work
1.5.2. unpaid care work
1.5.3. teach-ins, knowledge distribution
1.5.3.1. technology and media as tools of resistance
2. Intersections and Interrelations
2.1. (Dis-)Ability
2.2. Class
2.3. Gender
2.4. Race
2.5. Border Imperialism, Empire, Colonialism
2.6. Body Mechanization
2.7. Labor
2.8. Care Work
2.8.1. (Re-)Production
2.9. Objectification
2.10. Modes of Violence
2.11. Subjectivities
2.12. Natures (1st/2nd/3rd nature)
2.13. Geo-physis and Geo-psyche
3. Interpersonal Relations
3.1. mutual aid
3.2. neighborhood solidarity
3.3. informal economy
3.4. creative potential of transforming socio-political ecologies
3.5. agency
3.5.1. bringing change forward while facing (inter-)personal challenges
3.6. building trust and friendships with co-workers
3.7. gender and community organizing
3.8. working subjectivities
4. Backdrop: GLOBALIZATION
4.1. Mexican and US States: Border Industrialization Program 1965
4.2. NAFTA 1994
4.3. international corporations, export, profit
4.4. assembly plants
4.5. Tijuana "City of Factories"
4.6. border empire, separation
4.6.1. physical border Mexico/US
4.6.2. in-between spaces "border towns"
4.6.3. imagined borders
4.6.4. colonialism
4.6.4.1. geology and psycho-somatic natures: mining the earth, mining planetary existence, and mining body/mind/soul
4.7. surveillance and patroling
5. Environmental Justice
5.1. factories
5.2. pollution
5.2.1. EnvironRights violation
5.2.2. Human Rights violation
5.2.3. waste disposal: plastic, lead, thinner,