
Tiana Bakic HaydenCollege of Mexico | Colmex · Urban Studies
Tiana Bakic Hayden
Doctor of Philosophy
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I am a cultural anthropologist and professor of Urban Studies at the Colegio de México in Mexico City. I received my PhD from New York University in 2019. I study urban food systems, violence and crime, and mobility in Mexico.
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Food provisioning represents a major everyday challenge for migrant shelter administrators, workers, and volunteers, yet very little is known about the specific conditions and challenges faced by these spaces. While there is a small body of scholarly work about food in shelters from the perspective of people on the move, most of this literature is...
En la última década, después de casi medio siglo de abandono, los mercados públicos entran nuevamente en la agenda pública y en los estudios urbanos. Basado en un acercamiento etnográfico, este texto propone dos aportes principales a estas nuevas investigaciones: 1) dar cuenta del perfil y heterogeneidad de experiencias de los comerciantes que trab...
This article puts into dialogue anthropological discussions on violence, infrastructures, food systems, and affect to argue for the importance of understanding the role of affective responses in shaping not only subjectivities or experiences of individuals but also the networks, infrastructures, and institutions in which they participate. Set in co...
This article examines practices of critique and ambivalence among participants in a controversial Latin American investment scheme called the telares de la abundancia (‘looms of abundance’). While the dominant discourses about the telares construe them as predatory, participants understand themselves as knowing subjects who reject a worldview based...
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in la Central de Abasto, Mexico City's main wholesale food market, this article analyzes the effects of violence on the configuration of the Mexican food system. It argues that in contexts of violence, relations of intermediation expand and transform. That is, the number and type of actors involved in dis...
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in la Central de Abasto, Mexico City’s main wholesale food market, this article analyzes the effects of violence on the configuration of the Mexican food system. It argues that in contexts of violence, relations of intermediation expand and transform. That is, the number and type of actors involved in dis...
Street food vendors are a ubiquitous but controversial feature of
Mexico City’s foodscapes; in the context of urban renewal and
modernization projects, vendors are frequently portrayed as backwards, dirty, and undesirable and are targeted for removal. While
most studies of such processes focus on the implications for ven- 10
dors themselves, this a...
In contemporary Mexico, the ideal of citizen responsibility and cooperation with authorities in crime prevention coexists with a widespread mistrust and disillusionment with the state. In this context, ninety percent of crimes go unreported to the police, a statistic which is a source of concern not only for law enforcement authorities, but also fo...
Following JTH’s editorial calling for a deeper consideration of the movement of people and things, we propose a more integrated and spread-out consideration of the relationship between food and mobility. Our aim is to bring together two consolidated fields of study – food studies and mobilities studies – in the interest of expanding the focus and s...
In Mexico City, over 500,000 people are estimated to earn a living working as street vendors. In recent years Mexican street commerce has been increasingly criminalized in the context of "revanchist" neoliberal urban politics which have aimed to "reclaim" and gentrify urban spaces, mirroring a global trend (Leal Martinez 2016, Swanson 2007, Janosch...
In recent years, street food in Mexico City has become nationally and globally renowned and celebrated for its flavor and authenticity. Yet the vendors, known as ambulantes, who sell street food, remain marginalized, criminalized, and stigmatized as members of the informal economy. Drawing on historiography and ethnographic data, this chapter inves...
Although not common, self-induced abortion continues to exist in the contemporary United States, where women are being criminalized for the practice. This paper analyzes the reasons that women have for inducing their own abortions given the existence of legal alternatives. It argues that changes in medical technologies and information technologies...