The Romance of Democracy : Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico /

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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 pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gutmann, Matthew C., 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Publieke opinie.
Politieke activiteit.
Arbeiders.
Working class > Political activity.
Working class > Attitudes.
Public opinion.
Politics and government.
Democracy > Public opinion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Public opinion > Mexico > Coyoacán.
Working class > Mexico > Coyoacán > Attitudes.
Working class > Political activity > Mexico > Coyoacán.
Democracy > Mexico > Coyoacán > Public opinion.
Mexico > Mexico City > Santo Domingo de los Reyes.
Mexico > Coyoacán (Mexico City)
Mexico.
Santo Domingo de los Reyes (Mexico City, Mexico)
Mexico > Politics and government > 1988-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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