UC Riverside

A collective essay that looks at movement in a place comprising what is now known as Mesoamerica or Central America, Mexico as well as parts of California and the southwestern United States. After elucidating how the violence of modernity/coloniality creates regimes of knowledge, aesthetics, and politics that deny corporeal self-determination, the authors offer varied, but interconnected, approaches to “transmotion” as embodied practices that generate relational sovereignties despite the ongoing violence visited upon persons in movement, especially at the artificial borders between the geopolitical bodies comprising Mesoamerica. The authors’ three voices relationally build upon each other to trace the complexities at the heart of decolonization, especially in regards to the diasporic, the dispossessed, and the displaced.