The Romance of Democracy (eBook)

Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico

Matthew C. Gutmann (Autor)

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2002
318 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-93663-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book provides a detailed, bottom-up exploration of what men and women think about national and neighborhood democracy, what their dreams are for a better society, and how these dreams play out in their daily lives. Based on extensive fieldwork in the same neighborhood he discussed in his acclaimed book The Meanings of Macho, Matthew C. Gutmann now explores the possibilities for political and social change in the world's most populous city. In the process he provides a new perspective on many issues affecting Mexicans countrywide.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Preface

1. Compliant Defiance in Colonia Santa Domingo
2. The Children of (Oscar) Lewis
3. 1968—The Massacre at Tlatelolco
4. For Whom the Taco Bells Toll
5. Crossing Borders
6. Rituals of Resistance, or, Diminished Expectations after Socialism
7. Chiapas and Mexican Blood
8. Engendering Popular Political Culture
9. UNAM Strike
10. Political Fantasies

Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.10.2002
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • compliant defiance • Contemporary Mexico • Culture • Democracy • Emancipation • ethnographers • Ethnographic Study • ethnography • Fieldwork • historians • Human Condition • Ideological • insider perspective • mexican history • mexicans • mexican society • Mexico • Mexico City • modern history • national democracy • Nonfiction • Political • Political change • Political History • popular politics • social change • Social Science • Social Studies • subjugation • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 0-520-93663-9 / 0520936639
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-93663-8 / 9780520936638