Thinking through tourism in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas: Transnationalism as a methodology

Brian Batchelor
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“He isn’t going to win, is he?” the musician asked the crowd in the Italian-style cantina, located in the tourist center of San Cristóbal de las Casas, a colonial city in the highlands of Chiapas. The musician, a British expat who had also spent time in Canada, played every Tuesday night – this particular Tuesday night happened to be the 2016 US Presidential election. As a couple of us despondently confirmed that Donald Trump might win, the musician responded, “Well, it doesn’t matter ... nothing will fuckin’ change.” I was in San Cristóbal conducting fieldwork. I had met with some contacts: an Anthropology professor at a local university, a Czech national visiting to learn Spanish, and a Dutch national, who came to tour Mexico. The cantina, owned by two Italian expats and staffed with people from Chiapas and other Mexican states, is a popular destination for “locals” and “visitors” alike–one of many establishments that make San Cristóbal a transnational tourist space. This report outlines my research on tourism in San Cristóbal through the lens of transnationalism: I discuss transnational spaces, explore processes of transnationalism and tourism in Chiapas, and lastly map out how transnationalism as a methodology helps me conceptualize my fieldwork site.
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通过旅游在圣Cristóbal德拉斯卡萨斯,恰帕斯:跨国主义作为一种方法论
“他不会赢的,对吧?”这位音乐家在这家意大利风格的酒吧里向人群问道。这家酒吧位于恰帕斯高原的殖民地城市圣Cristóbal德拉斯卡萨斯的旅游中心。这位旅居加拿大的英国音乐家每周二晚上都会演出,而这个特别的周二晚上恰好是2016年美国总统大选。当我们几个人沮丧地确认唐纳德·特朗普可能会获胜时,这位音乐家回答说:“嗯,没关系……什么都不会改变。”我在圣Cristóbal进行实地调查。我遇到了一些熟人:一位当地大学的人类学教授,一位来墨西哥学习西班牙语的捷克人,还有一位来墨西哥旅游的荷兰人。这家酒吧由两名意大利侨民经营,员工来自恰帕斯州和墨西哥其他州,是“当地人”和“游客”的热门目的地——使圣Cristóbal成为跨国旅游空间的众多场所之一。本报告通过跨国主义的视角概述了我对圣Cristóbal旅游的研究:我讨论了跨国空间,探索了跨国主义和恰帕斯旅游的过程,最后绘制了跨国主义作为一种方法如何帮助我概念化我的实地考察地点。
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