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Current Visiting Fellows and Guest Scholars
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Josefina Carpena-Méndez
Visiting Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, UC Berkeley
In residence September 2005 - June 2006
phone: (858)534-6785, fax: (858) 534-6447, e-mail: jcarpenamendez@ucsd.edu
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Expertise
Childhoods and Youths in emerging societies; age politics in late capitalism; child labor, education, and rural development; globalization, migration and transnational families; everyday life, political and structural violence; social memory and history; Nahuas.
Regions of Interest
Mexico (particularly the state of Puebla), the United States, and Spain.
Current Project
“Growing Up Across Trenches, Letters, and Borders: Childhood, Youth, and the Everyday in Neoliberal Rural Mexico.” Carpena-Mendez’ dissertation examines the reorganization of children’s experiences and spaces in indigenous communities recently affected by accelerated processes of migration to urban areas of the US (New York and Philadelphia). She explores the tensions and contradictions in community everyday life, the relationships between generations, and the formation of youth subjectivities
Publications
Carpena-Méndez has published an introductory text to several ethnographic studies on education and identity in rural Mexico and Spain, “Educación e Identidades Culturales en un Mundo Globalizado: Niños, Jóvenes y Escuelas Rurales en España y México”, (forthcoming) in the edited book, Etnografía y Educación, Valencia: Editorial Germanía. She has several unpublished manuscripts that focus on the transformation of children’s spaces and experiences of growing up in contemporary rural Mexico: “Bounded Childhood, Street Youth: Spatially Reorganized Life Trajectories in Rural Mexico”, “Growing Up in Transition: Children’s Work and Youth Identity Formation in Rural Mexico”, and “Our lives are like a sock inside-out: Notes on the Educational Context in Rural Mexico”. All of them presented in academic conferences in the U.S., Norway, and Spain. She has also published in Spanish in edited books on comparative ethnographic experiences of the food learning practices of immigrant population in Catalonia (Spain).
Academic Background:
Fina Carpena-Méndez is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, where she received the Second National Award for the Anthropology graduates from the minister of Education in Spain. For her M.A. Carpena-Méndez did comparative research in rural and urban schools in Catalonia with immigrant children. Her M.A. thesis focused on the experiences of learning and adapting food cultures of ethnically diverse families in Catalonia (Spain). In 1999 she joined the doctoral program in Anthropology at UC Berkeley where she has done research on Nahua indigenous groups, childhood and youth, and violence and social suffering in Mexico. Her work has been awarded with fellowships from La Caixa Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the Spencer Foundation. She has been a Graduate Student Instructor for several courses at UC Berkeley.
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