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The Romance of Democracy : Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (318 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780520936638 |