(If you run into a paywall and want a copy, let me know!)
Islas Weinstein, Tania and Milena Ang. 2020. “AMLO can’t fight poverty through austerity.” Jacobin Magazine.
Islas Weinstein, Tania. 2020. “Expuestas: Laborious Expectations and the Plight of Feminist Art in Contemporary Mexico.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 4 (45): 903-929.
Islas Weinstein, Tania, Mariana Castillo Deball and Alberto Ortega. 2019. Sun Ra. En algún lado y en ninguno. Poemas. (Bom Dia Berlin, Germany). (w/ “Introduction” by Tania Islas Weinstein).
Islas Weinstein, Tania. 2018. “Cecilia Vicuña, la palabradora.” Campo de Relámpagos.
Islas Weinstein, Tania. 2016. “A Eulogy for the Coloso: The politics of commemoration in Calderón’s Mexico.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 4 (2): 479-499
Islas Weinstein, Tania and Jan Dutkiewicz. 2015. “Herman Nitsch en México: La polémica que pudo ser.” Horizontal.
Islas Weinstein, Tania. 2008. “La Censura Figurativa.” Istor 35 (December): 67-90.
My book project, Politics in a House of Mirrors: Art, Nationalism, and Representation in Contemporary Mexico, offers an account of the ways in which Mexico’s transition to formal electoral democracy and its implementation of market-oriented reforms transformed the country’s cultural policies and institutions, as well as the political content of its works of art. These transformations, I argue, have profoundly shaped Mexico’s national narratives and its forms of civic participation and political critique.
Drawing on over two years of archival and ethnographic research conducted at art and cultural organizations and state offices, as well as over a hundred interviews with art professionals and policymakers, I demonstrate how the creative elites negotiate a novel political environment marked by tensions between autocratic institutional legacies, emergent market logics, and a newly-liberalized public sphere. I show how these changes have affected Mexican politics, ranging from how the state commemorates its history and organizes taxation, to how museums and monuments become sites for cultural resistance, through to how feminist activists contest gender-based violence.