From books to brewing 🎤 with Anthropologist and craft beer brewer Mario Macias.

Presented by: Rocio Carvajal Food anthropologist, culture & gastronomy educator.

Episode 87

This episode features a conversation with Mexican anthropologist and PhD candidate Mario Macias Ayala @mario.maciasaa in which we discuss several intertwined projects that are at the core of his research:

-Return migration within Mexican-American dynamics: Mario unravels the intricate tapestry of return migration within the complex web of Mexican-American relationships.

-Cooperative Initiatives: empowering indigenous farmers and microbrewing: We explore the transformative role of cooperatives in facilitating reintegration and fostering entrepreneurship among indigenous farmers. Additionally, we delve into the growing microbrewing scene, initially a passion project, now a catalyst for unexpected collaborations and alliances within the communities Mario has encountered.

 Join us as we navigate through these rich narratives that illuminate the profound connections between food, culture, and community.

 

Contact Mario:

Academia.edu:  https://bit.ly/3R2b7IY /    

Email: mariomaciasaa@arizona.edu  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mario.maciasaa/

 

EPISODE NOTES

 

Reading list by Rocio:

 

·       á Fjárfelli, Elska. (comp). (2018). Medieval Ale & Beer. Malting, brewing, philosophies, recipes & c. from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. https://tinyurl.com/26fptr64 

·       Andrews, Abigail. (2023). Banished Men. How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation. University of California Press. https://tinyurl.com/ytk8dfry (Free) 

·       Black, Richard and Koser, Khalid. (1999). The End of the Refugee Cycle?: Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction. Berghahn Books

·       Cassarino, Jean-Pierre. (2004). “Theorising Return Migration: The Conceptual Approach to Return Migrants Revisited.” In: International Journal on Multicultural Societies, 6 (2), 253-279. https://tinyurl.com/25c4bgkc

·       Enkerli, Alexandre. (2006, June). Brewing Cultures: Craft Beer and Cultural Identity in North America. [Paper presentation] Joint conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Boston, MA. United States. 

·       Forsyth, Mark. (2018). A Short History of Drunkenness. Penguin.

·      Macías Ayala. Mario. (2017). To Stay or Return Home: Decision Taking among Undocumented Mexican Migrants in the United States before the Tightening of the Border and Anti-immigrant US Polices. (Master’s thesis) Master of Arts, Central European University.  https://tinyurl.com/2cj7ac6e (ResearchGate)

·       Musesengwa, Tatenda. (February 20, 2024) “Allyship in research.” (Blog post) Social Research Association (SRA). https://tinyurl.com/223umvbd

·       Romero-Medina, Angélica, et al. (2020). “Renewing Traditions: A Sensory and Chemical Characterisation of Mexican Pigmented Corn Beers.” In: Foods. 9(7):886. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9070886

·       Sjölander-Lindqvist, A., Skoglund, W. and Laven, D. (2020). “Craft beer – building social terroir through connecting people, place and business”. In: Journal of Place Management and Development, Vol. 13 No. 2, 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-01-2019-0001

 

Reading list by Mario:

 

·       Austin, Diane E. “Partnerships, Not Projects! Improving the Environment Through Collaborative Research and Action.” Human Organization, 2004, 63 (4):143-152.

·       Bejarano, Carolina, Lucia López Juárez, Mirian A. Mijangos García, and Daniel M. Goldstein. Introduction to Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science. Durham, Duke University Press, 2019.

·       Binford, Leigh. Lo local y lo global en la migración transnacional. La economía política de la migración acelerada internacional de Puebla y Veracruz: siete estudios de caso. México, D.F: Luna Arena, 2004.

·       Blackwell, Maylei. “Geographies of Indigeneity: Indigenous Migrant Women’s Organizing and Translocal Politics of Place.” Latino Studies, 2017, 15 (2): 156–81.

·      Cordero, Blanca. Economía política y formación de expectativas locales en la emigración y masificación de la migración de Huaquechulenses a Nueva York, Puebla, México: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2004.

·       Coulthard, Glen. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2014.

·       D’Aubeterre, M. E., Lee, A. E., & Rivermar Pérez, M. L. Class, Gender and Migration: Return Flows between Mexico and the United States in times of Crisis. Routledge, 2020.

·       De Haas, H. De. A Theory of Migration: the aspirations- capabilities framework. Comparative Migration Studies, 2021, 9(8), 35.

·       De Genova, Nicholas. Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

·       Green, Linda. “The Nobodies: Neoliberalism, Violence, and Migration.” Medical Anthropology, 2011, 30 (4): 366–85.

·       McAfee, Kathleen, and Elizabeth Shapiro. Payments for Ecosystem Services in Mexico: Nature, Neoliberalism, Social Movements, and the State. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2010, 100(3): 579-599.

·       Pérez García, Nelsson, Mauel Rueda, Gustavo Rojo, Rosa Martínez, Benito Ramírez y José Juárez. El Bambú como Sistema Agroforestal: Una Alternativa de Desarrollo Mediante el Pago por Servicios Ambientales en la Sierra Nororiental del Estado de Puebla. Ra Ximhai, 2009, 5(3): 335-346.

·       Rylko-Bauer, Barbara, Merrill Singer, and John Van Willigen. “Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past, Present, and Future”. American Anthropologist, 2006.

·       TallBear, Kim. “Dear Indigenous Studies, It’s Not me, It’s You. Why I Left and What Needs to Change.” In Aileen Moreton-Robinson, ed. Critical Indigenous Studies: Engagements in First World Locations, 2016. 

·       Tuck, Eve & Wayne Yang. Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor. Decolonization, Indegeneity, Education & Society, 2012; 1(1): 1-40.

·       Vásquez-León, Marcela, Brian Burke, Timothy Finan. Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change: Experiences from Rural Latin America. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2017.

·       Veracini, Lorenzo. Containment, Elimination, Endogeneity: Settler Colonialism in the Global Present. Rethinking Marxism, 2019, 31(1): 118-140.

·       Wolfe, Patrick. Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native. Journal of Genocide Research. 2006; 8(4): 387-409. 

Also mentioned in the conversation:

 

• Dr. Chang https://www.instagram.com/lab.dr.chang/

• Coyotitla https://www.instagram.com/coyotitla/

• Maza Cholula https://www.instagram.com/mazacholula/

• Milli Cholula https://www.instagram.com/millicholula/

• Mazolco Azul https://www.instagram.com/mazolcoazul/

 

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