Crossroads: Communication and Culture Studies Along Mexico’s Northeastern Border

Abstract

This essay presents a brief outlook on the main authors whose work and theory have influenced research on culture and communication along Mexico’s Northeastern border, which is evidenced in academic production in Baja California. Its purpose is to determine the core themes that have grounded academic thought on culture and communication along this border with the U.S. The conjunction between Anglo Saxon and Eu- ropean theoretic and practical outlooks is identified; it also acknowledges that the contexts that ground cultural and communication processes in Latin America –specifically in that region of Mexico- establish particular problems and agendas that are being addressed using specific analytical and methodological practices that identify and give meaning to cultural/ communication studies in the region.