Espacios del Exilio - la experiencia transnacional en la Ciudad de México 1934-60

Esta ponencia se dedica a la experiencia urbana de los exiliados políticos en la Ciudad de México desde la década de los años treinta hasta al final de los años cincuenta. Esta perspectiva requiere una comprensión adecuada de la lógica espacial del contexto urbano del exilio y de la localización de la experiencia transnacional. La metodología se centra en dos perspectivas analíticas: la primera se enfoca en ofrecer una comprensión más detallada de la geografía social a través de todo el Distrito Federal, y la segunda en la práctica social de la vida urbana de los exiliados

Local Brawls and Global Confrontation: transnational political violence among the exiled Left in Mexico City during 1943

This article traces the local and global context of two incidents of political violence among the transnational community of left-wing political exiles in Mexico City during March and April 1943. On both occasions, violent clashes resulted from attempts to commemorate two Polish-Jewish socialists who had been convicted and executed in the Soviet Union as “fifth columnist spies”. A close reading of locations and chronological context relies on primary materials from Mexican, US-American, German, Austrian and Russian archives as well as the contemporary local press. The local logic of political practice (including violence) on the geographic and political periphery of world politics can be deciphered as an urban choreography of larger ideological conflicts among the Left and contributes to our understanding of the political meaning of the conflict as much as the overarching ideological debate that contributed to the global confrontation of the Cold War

Transnational District. European poitical exile in Mexico City, 1939-59

This study traces and reconstructs the lived experience and political practice of exile in Mexico City between 1939 and 1959 by using a dual approach towards social topography as well as praxeological analysis: On the one hand, the social topography of the city must play an important part in reconstructing patterns of residence, sociability, and political association. On the other, the subjective experiences of European political refugees arriving in the Mexican capital, their encounter with the New World, and the lived reality of their social and political practice equally deserves full analytical attention in order to establish the processes of gradual appropriation of the urban environment by the European communities of exile. This study aims at presenting a coherent analysis of social and political practice in exile embedded in its urban topography, relating praxeological aspects of political ideology and nationality to their topographical manifestation, and establishing their historical meaning and significance out of the interplay of spaces and practices