Camila Pastor

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Division de Historia, Faculty Member

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El Islam en América Latina

ISTOR. Revista de Historia Internacional, 2011

istor, año xii, número 45, verano de 2011 istor, palabra del griego antiguo y más exactamente del... more istor, año xii, número 45, verano de 2011 istor, palabra del griego antiguo y más exactamente del jónico. nombre de agente, istor, "el que sabe", el experto, el testigo, de donde proviene el verbo istoreo, "tratar de saber, informarse", y la palabra istoria, búsqueda, averi gua ción, "historia". así, nos colocamos bajo la invocación del primer istor: heródoto de halicarnaso.

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The Great Arab Revolt, Palestine and a Phoenicianist civilizing mission: transregional debates in the Mexican Mahjar Press

Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2022

After a brief overview of the development of the Mexican Mahjar press during the first three deca... more After a brief overview of the development of the Mexican Mahjar press during the first three decades of the 20 th century, this paper addresses two crucial debates of the migrant transregional public sphere in the 1930's and 40's. The first documented diasporic mobilization around the Great Arab Revolt in British Palestine (1936-1938). The political and social crisis that the Revolt articulated in the Mashriq triggered a storm of press coverage in the Mexican Mahjar which effected a qualitative shift in representation. Palestine was radically transformed. Initially cast as a geography of recreation characterized by natural beauty and Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land, it became the axis of a heated debate around 'the Palestine question' and its moral geography. In this process, ways of representing Jewish populations also changed. They ceased to be understood through an Ottoman history of coexistence of religious traditions in the Mashriq, resignified as a homogeneous people,

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Conversions to Islam in Mexico

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, 2024

Conversion to Islam in Mexico has accelerated in the early 21st century, thanks to both increased... more Conversion to Islam in Mexico has accelerated in the early 21st century, thanks to both increased migration from Muslim-majority countries and the expanding global, regional, and local networks among Islamic religious communities. Despite there being no mosques in the country until the 1980s, official figures from Mexican censuses show the number of Muslims doubling between 2000 and 2010 and again in 2020. Though many communities were built in urban centers, outreach and proselytizing activities have extended into rural regions as well and have included Shia and Sufi as well as Sunni groups. Thus, the establishment of Muslim communities in Mexico has become a transnational phenomenon, with implications for the wider diaspora. This is demonstrated through an exploration of the historiography and ethnography of Islam and by drawing from data collected during the Ethnographic Census of Muslims in Mexico (2011-2014) and using interviews with converts, migrants, and diplomatic personnel to identify some of the core characteristics and consequences of Mexican Islam as convert Islam.

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Birthing Islam: The New Muslim Midwifery in Mexico, 1987–2024

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, 2024

As women convert to Islam in Mexico and go on to become pregnant, give birth, and care for their ... more As women convert to Islam in Mexico and go on to become pregnant, give birth, and care for their infants as Muslims, a number of them have trained as midwives, birth attendants, and lactation consultants with the intention of serving their communities. They attend births in homes, birth centers, and some clinical settings, provide postpartum care for mothers and infants, and support breastfeeding. Attending to Muslim converts as healers and midwives invites recognition of new birthing practices among women socialized into what they narrate as emancipatory understandings of corporeality through conversion. My ethnographic exploration of their practice draws on key insights from the anthropology of birth inaugurated by Brigitte Jordan and the core questions developed by her students around childbirth and the construction of authoritative knowledge about pregnancy, birth and nursing These include recognizing the cultural definition of these processes and the ideological status of such definitions in guiding how decisions and routines are conducted around preparation for birth, attendants and support systems, birth territory, the use of technology and medication, and the allocation of decision making. Descriptions and analyses of the role that spiritual practice and religious tradition plays in these processes are surprisingly absent from this rich literature, as key contributors such as Sheila Kitzinger have recognized. The construction of midwifery practices that sacralize and naturalize pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding in convert experience occur at a peculiar transnational node of corporeal knowledge. Convert midwifery has flourished in the context of a wider rebirth and professionalization of midwifery in urban Mexico. The creation and legal recognition of modern midwifery schools and birth centers in Chiapas, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Guerrero, and San Miguel Allende have been achieved in conversation with global midwifery associations and funding partners, within the larger context of movements asserting women's sexual and reproductive rights and championing the female subject's autonomy. Converts' commitment to midwife-assisted births partly originated in the preference for home birth among the Spanish Murabittun community in San Cristobal de las Casas since they began proselytizing there in 1994. Many of the new Muslim midwives narrate long family histories of healing expertise in different regional indigenous or rural traditions however, which are also mobilized by the new professionalized midwifery at large along with other practices labeled holistic, natural, or traditional and which include herbal medicine, prenatal yoga, meditation, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, and placental therapies. Muslim midwives' repertoires include therapeutic recourses that reference historically Muslim healing traditions, such as prophetic medicine, hiyama, or Quranic recitation, dua, and dhikr as accompaniment to birth. I argue that these midwives and the women they assist are bodies archiving assemblages of aggregate authoritative knowledges about being inhabited by new lives and the transcendental experience of birthing them.

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El momento atlántico de Marruecos Camila Pastor de María y Campos e Indira Iasel Sánchez Bernal (coordinadoras)

ISTOR. Revista de Historia Internacional, 2023

El Océano Atlántico es un espacio de interconexión entre las Américas, África y Europa, es un ter... more El Océano Atlántico es un espacio de interconexión entre las Américas,
África y Europa, es un territorio por el cual no sólo han viajado personas,
sino palabras e ideas y en el cual se han generado múltiples intercambios
literarios, poéticos, políticos, sociales y culturales. Decidimos nombrar este Dossier “Marruecos Atlántico”, porque el Atlántico nos permite acercarnos a un país que geográficamente parece lejano desde una espacialidad como México; sin embargo, por medio del Atlántico accedemos a historias de cruces, de encuentros, de desencuentros; las cuales también nos han emparentado con España. El Dossier, de igual forma, fue resultado de entretejer redes, cuyo hilo conductor fue la Semana Árabe en México del año 2016.

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The Mashriq Unbound: Arab Modernism, Criollo Nationalism, and the Discovery of America by the Turks

Mashriq & Mahjar Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, 2014

…it is to the travelling, colonizing, seafaring peoples that humanity owes its progress. The Phoe... more

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The Mexican Mahjar: Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate

Deeb, Lara. An enchanted modern : gender and public piety in shi'i Lebanon. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006. 275 pp

Una modernidad encantada: Género y devoción pública en el Líbano shiita 0403-0420-RESENAS.indd 40... more

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From ottoman modernity to French Beirut

The French mandate over Lebanon and Syria linked those former Ottoman Arab provinces to other ter... more The French mandate over Lebanon and Syria linked those former Ottoman Arab provinces to other territories under French tutelage, including North African colonies and protectorates in present day Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. As political boundaries were redefined, new circulations joined earlier migratory circuits and corridors, engendering debates, policy and surveillance over populations in movement. In the global context of women’s movements and women’s growing access to the public, the migration of women in particular became suspect, especially that which lacked the moral and economic supervision of women’s activity by a spouse, a government or another institution. Often identified as “foreign” women by local populations, they increasingly found work in service positions in the Eastern Mediterranean. Yet women workers were suspect. They were tolerated but resented by both the French authorities and former Ottoman officials incorporated into mandate administration, who could all agree on casting women’s presence in public as a moral threat.

Diaspora Studies: Mexico

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures

Performers or Prostitutes?

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 2017

Analyzing memoirs from the Arab diaspora and Mashriq, colonial archives, interviews, League of Na... more Analyzing memoirs from the Arab diaspora and Mashriq, colonial archives, interviews, League of Nations reports, and mandate legal literature, this article tracks the circulation and regulation of mobile women engaging in performance and sex work in French Mandate Syria and Lebanon (1921–46). The French metropolitan system of regulated prostitution was imported yet transformed in the mandate region as women performers were sorted into legitimate, if morally suspect, foreign artistes and autochthonous performers defined as prostitutes by decrees and codes. Regional and transnational mobility and the institutionalization of borders by colonial administrations destabilized their own distinctions between foreign and autochthonous, however. Women used these contradictions, overlapping legal frameworks, and artistry to continue to work and limit the extraction of their resources by a variety of institutional actors who nevertheless expected sexual and entertainment services to be afforded ...

Comer: el gozo de la creación

Estudios de Asia y África, 2015

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Mujeres y revueltas en el mundo árabe: historia y orientalismos

Foro Internacional, 2014

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Medio Oriente en América Del Sur: Nuevas Miradas Desde La Antropología y Los Estudios Culturales

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LA CREACIÓN DE UN ÁMBITO PÚBLICO TRANSNACIONAL (primera parte)

Transnacionalismo, Mandato francés, sirio-libaneses, esfera pública, colonialismo 56 Una política... more

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Lo árabe y su doble: imaginarios de principios de siglo en México y Honduras

Contribuciones árabes a las identidades …, 2009

... En 1934, viajé a Nueva York. Estuve ahí con la familia Aboumrad, eran muy amigos de mi papá. ... more

Suspect service: prostitution and the public in the Mandate Mediterranean

This chapter situates debates in Mandate Lebanon and Syria about workingwomen and prostitution in... more This chapter situates debates in Mandate Lebanon and Syria about workingwomen and prostitution in wider Mediterranean contexts. It presents crossed histories that acknowledge colonial spaces and their history of regulating sexuality as well as scandalous public debates on women&#39;s work, women&#39;s bodies, and women&#39;s relation to colonial law.

Movilización y modernidad en el Medio Oriente

Estudios de Asia y África, 2015

Las movilizaciones actuales en el Medio Oriente están ancladas en las transformaciones que result... more Las movilizaciones actuales en el Medio Oriente están ancladas en las transformaciones que resultaron de la participación de la región en la construcción de una modernidad global institucional, productiva e ideológica. En este artículo se explora el surgimiento de nuevos actores sociales en la región y los movimientos sociales que han propiciado, proponiendo o resistiendo reformas al Estado y al orden público desde las últimas décadas del momento otomano, durante el periodo de los mandatos y más allá del pacto social poscolonial. La modernidad otomana se caracterizó por intensos debates y el surgimiento de nuevas actividades y espacios públicos, que permitieron la movilización de actores nuevos y establecidos; debates que fueron suspendidos, por la fuerza, por las administraciones mandatarias y sus colaboradores. El proceso de descolonización, a mediados del siglo xx, y la ola de revoluciones que se desencadenó, llevaron al poder en gran parte de la región a sectores históricamente ...

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El Mashreq francés en México. Patronazgo, propiedad y la lectura de los cuerpos en la Poscolonia / The French Mashreq in Mexico. Patronage, Property and Body readings in Postcolony

Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural., 2017

Resumen: Este texto explora la ambivalencia en la producción estructural y discursiva de las posi... more Resumen: Este texto explora la ambivalencia en la producción estructural y discursiva de las posiciones de clase de migrantes que han circulado entre Líbano, Siria y México a lo largo del siglo veinte. Su argumento central es que la inscripción de su subalternidad como sujetos del mandato francés sobre el Mashreq, durante la primera mitad del siglo veinte, ha sido constitutiva de su acceso a una posición privilegiada en el contexto mexicano.Palabras clave: Mashreq, México, Francia, subalternidad, patronazgo. : This paper explores the ambivalence in the structural and discursive production of the class positions of migrants that have circulated between Lebanon, Syria and Mexico throughout the twentieth century. Its central argument is that the inscription of their subalternity as subjects of the French mandate on the Mashreq during the first half of the twentieth century has constituted their access to a privileged position in the Mexican context.Key words: Mashreq, México, France, S...

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LA CREACIÓN DE UN ÁMBITO PÚBLICO TRANSNACIONAL (segunda parte)

Estudios De Asia Y Africa, 2013

Transnacionalismo, Mandato francés, sirio-libaneses, esfera pública, colonialismo 56 Una política... more

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