Claiming and Contesting Representation in Mexico (eBook)

Meanings, Practices and Settings

Fernando Castanos, Silvia Inclan, Michael Saward (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1., First Edition
192 Seiten
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-3625-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Mexico is a country whose global political and economic significance are rapidly increasing. This book offers the first in-depth English-language analysis of the politics of representation in Mexico. Through innovative conceptual work and original case studies, the book explores important trends in Mexican politics and governance through the lens of representation, including who speaks and stands for whom, on what grounds and in what domains and the challenges they face. Revealing a significant portrait of major tensions in and challenges to democracy across Mexico emerges, this book will be of interest to those researching current trends in the theory and practice of political representation, and readers looking for new perspectives on Mexican politics and governance.

Autor

Fernando Castaños is a Senior Researcher in the Social Sciences Institute of Mexico's National Autonomous University, UNAM. Silvia Inclán is a Researcher in the Social Sciences Institute of Mexico's National Autonomous University, UNAM. Michael Saward is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Inhalt

1. Introduction – Fernando Castaños and Silvia Inclán
2. Representation: Disputable Claims, Contestable Concept – Fernando Castaños and Alejandro Monsiváis
3. Representation in Complex Associative Systems: Exclusion and Embodiment – Matilde Luna and José Luis Velasco
4. Paths to Agreement in Participatory Democracy: Three Cases in Yucatán – Cristina Puga
5. Daring Mexico City’s Government To Deliberate: Interplay Between Representation and Participation – Iván Islas
6. Contesting Gender Representation in Oaxaca’s Indigenous Communities - Carina Galar
7. Ontological and Political Representation in Community Development Discourse – Scott McLean and Laura Montes De Oca
8. Acting as a Representative: The Case of the Executive Council of Global Corporations - Ricardo Tirado and Fernando Castaños
9. Delivering Genuine Change and National Redemption: Representative Claims in Mexico’s 2018 Election - Alejandro Monsiváis and Fernando Castaños
Afterword: The Travels and Travails of Political Representation – Michael Saward

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.3.2024
• Co-Autor: Laura Beatriz Montes de Oca Barrera, Ivan Islas, Matilde Luna, Carina Galar Martinez, Scott McLean, Alejandro Monsivais-Carrillo, Cristina Puga, Ricardo Tirado Segura, Jose Luis Velasco
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Civil Society • Mexican politics • Political representation • Social Movements in Mexico • The Representative Claim
• ISBN-10: 1-5292-3625-8 / 1529236258
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5292-3625-5 / 9781529236255