The romance of democracy : compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico
Matthew C. Gutmann (Author)
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
eBook, English, ©2002
University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, ©2002
1 online resource (xxx, 289 pages) : illustrations
9781597348768, 9780585468334, 9780520936638, 9781282762756, 9786612762758, 1597348767, 0585468338, 0520936639, 1282762753, 6612762756
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Compliant defiance in Colonia Santo Domingo
The children of (Oscar) Lewis
1968, the massacre at Tlatelolco
For whom the taco bells toll
Crossing borders
Rituals of resistance, or, diminished expectations after socialism
Chiapas and Mexican blood
Engendering popular political culture
UNAM strike
Political fantasies
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