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In 2019, thousands of women took to the streets in Mexico City to protest gender-based violence. The demonstrations were characterised by the defacement of iconic monuments, which was widely condemned. But the protests also ignited widespread political mobilisation, including by a group of women restorers who, despite being designated to clean the monuments, refused to perform their work and publicly defended the protesters. By withholding their labour and their ostensible duty to the state and to the nation, the restorers' actions helped to transform narratives around feminism, protest and the meaning of national heritage. Based on a case study of this previously depoliticised group of art restorers who went on to become one of the most important faces of Mexico's feminist movement, this article argues that political mobilisation can be rooted in and directly linked to people's labour and professional expertise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The built heritage located in the historic center of the city of Tampico, declared a heritage zone of historic and artistic monuments in 1990, was built between 1890 and 1930 from the Porfiriato period, considered the time of the oil boom. In that sense, the architectural and visual history of the city is compromised in its construction with a landscape built as a consequence of the social needs and consumption of merchandise; companies and industry, which were determinants of that historical moment and gave a representative cultural meaning. This study considers particularly those historical buildings that contain on their facade’s inscriptions, names, numbers or symbols, as a historiographic narrative of the visual and discursive meaning named identification inscriptions. The contribution of a formal study for the defragmented narrativity of the graphic historicity with its own inscribed characteristics of the culture of Tampico, which, due to the affectations caused by diverse factors, put at risk its permanence and veracity in a structural and formal way, becomes important. This is how the contextual historiographic narrative contributes to point out the inscriptional graphic value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Latin American identities are embedded in symbolic landscapes designed to memorialize the past by reconfiguring key public places. Historical narratives, cultural ideologies anti political messages are vital components of the meanings of monuments that are con structed to honor the nation. Analyzing changes in symbolic landscapes yields insights to allow one to understand the shifts in national identities. Mexico City's 1910 Monument to Independence on Paseo de la Reforma is an example of how national, regional and globalized identities are enmeshed with monuments in a symbolic landscape. The Mexican government used the centennial to portray a distinctly "Latin" identity for Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]