A critical-embodied phenomenology of Mestizo identity: Corporeality in the ecology of Mexican Muralism.

This article examines Mexican Muralism, with a focus on Diego Rivera's murals, as a media ecology that shapes embodied social experience and the formation of mestizo identity through critical phenomenology and embodied cognition frameworks. It argues that Rivera's murals disrupt colonial perceptions by engaging viewers in embodied, spatial interactions that mediate social identities related to race, gender, and class, fostering intersubjective awareness and political agency. The murals function as public, accessible environments that evoke empathy, narrative cohesion, and a shared social horizon, enabling viewers to enact and reimagine mestizo subjectivity beyond fixed representations. By emphasizing movement, embodied memory, and affective engagement, Mexican Muralism offers a decolonial ecology of perception that bridges personal and collective identity within historical and sociopolitical contexts.