Place, Indigenous Resistance, and Architectures of Protest in Contemporary Mexico
Submitted by dwhitmore on February 10, 2025 - 11:20amThe Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies present Place, Indigenous Resistance, and Architectures of Protest in Contemporary Mexico with Dr. Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy, Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture (SALA) at The University of British Columbia. Dr. Gutiérrez-Monroy is an architectural historian who studies relationships between identity and space.
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