Imaginar Sin Frontera: Visiones Errantes de Nacion Y Cosmopolitismo Desde la Periferia

This dissertation revisits the U.S.-Mexico borderlands to examine its neoliberal transformation intensified by globalization in order to address new aesthetic subjectivities that challenge this violent process from the peripheral experience and imagination. Despite increasing interest in the academic field, Border Studies have been trapped by hybridity theory - whose celebrative interpretations of the border phenomena frequently ignore social inequality and neutralize cultural conflicts - developed by Homi Bhabha and Garcia Canclini, among others. Breaking with this postmodern frame, I explore the heterogeneous realities and marginal subjects particularly in relation to the crisis and the reformulation of two major and conflictive concepts: "cosmopolitanism" and "nation."