For Kostya: Brother, Friend, Warrior
by Hanna Dosenko
A soldier holds a portrait of Kostya at the funeral. Courtesy of Kostya’s family. It was freezing as we carried his coffin to its final resting place. [...]
For Kostya: Brother, Friend, Warrior
Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found
by Salwa Tareen
“Nothing is stranger than this business of humans observing other humans in order to write about them,” Ruth Behar noted in The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart [...]
Introduction: Anthropology of Free Trade
by Alejandra González Jiménez
NAFTA collage made from different materials, including a snippet of a photo by Barbara Zandoval on Unsplash (Mexico-U.S. Border). Created by Alejandra González Jiménez. President Trump’s tariff [...]
Agribusiness Grows and Society Thirsts in Northwestern Mexico
by Christian Zlolniski and Matthew Fischer-Daly
On a warm evening in June 2009, residents of a local community in the San Quintin Valley organized a meeting with the head of the Comisión Estatal de Servicios [...]
GM corn and challenges to Mexico’s food sovereignty
by Elizabeth Fitting
NAFTA’s thirtieth anniversary year was marked by a major trade dispute. Mexico defended its position to limit the production and use of genetically modified (GM) corn and glyphosate within [...]
Between Fair Trade and Free Trade
by Sarah Lyon
Figure 1. Coffee beans ripening on a tree. Photo credit: @jakkapan21 via Canva.com. The thirtieth anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) provides a timely [...]
Mining and eco-territorial struggles in Mexico
by Darcy Tetreault
“In 2004, the Canadian mining company Pan American Silver came to take over our lands, lands that we have inhabited for generations. It came promising improvements to our schools [...]
Immobility and the Grief of Families Separated by the Border
by Alyshia Gálvez
María migrated from Mexico to New York in 1997 to reunite with her partner, who had left two years earlier. When we met in 2000 at a Bronx parish, [...]
Free Trade, Bound by Violence
by Shaylih Muehlmann
Thirty years after NAFTA transformed Mexico’s economy, its entanglement with violence is unmistakable. While these agreements were created to accelerate the movement of goods and capital across borders, they [...]
NAFTA and the Making of the Mexican Subprime Lending Industry
by Inés Escobar González
Paving the way for NAFTA was as consequential for Mexico as NAFTA itself. Mexico’s entry into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came with countless conditions. Amongst them, [...]
