Corporalidad y ciudadanía en México: Don Justo de José Gómez Robleda (1940-1950)

Abstract

The text approaches part of José Gómez Robleda’s investigation on the body, citizenship and education, from 1940 to 1950, in Mexico. The analysis interprets the relationship between body and citizenship through the novel Don Justo, by José Gómez Robleda. Methodologically, the body and citizenship are linked as the core content of analysis through a qualitative, historic, and documental investigation in primary and secondary sources. The work positions the body’s importance through Michel Foucault’s biopower and Michel de Certeau’s analysis of its incarnation apparatus. The analytical framework comprehends the biotypology of José Gómez Robleda and the way it defined the corporality within civility, citizenship, and the school. The main conclusions of the text point at a) the body as the guiding axis of the Mexican citizenship formation in the mid-twentieth century; b) The racial corporal explanation of modernity and the labor activity as the axis of twentieth-century Mexican citizenship, individually and socially.