La construcción del paisaje mexicano en la revista MAPA, 1934-1940

Abstract

As a central theme in cultural geography, landscape has been incorporated as one of the ways through which to study national identities in Latin America. This article discusses how an intellectual and editorial project, MAPA magazine, opened its pages to the observation and definition of Mexican landscapes in 1930, providing a sense of individual identity. This publication applied an alternative vision before the rise of a state-sponsored socialist education. Three sections were chosen: “Roads,” “Auto” and “Trips and tours,” to identify the organizational elements of modern leisure travel and to determine the emerging cultural practices of geographical knowledge, related to the new network of roads and the social dissemination of the automobile. In the period under study, the landscape was changing fast and occupied an important place in the construction of national identity.