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Author Gutmann, Matthew C., 1953- author.

Title The romance of democracy : compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico / Matthew C. Gutmann
Published Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 289 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Analysis anthropology
compliant defiance
contemporary mexico
culture
democracy
emancipation
ethnographers
ethnographic study
ethnography
fieldwork
historians
human condition
ideological
insider perspective
mexican history
mexican society
mexicans
mexico city
mexico
modern history
national democracy
nonfiction
political change
political history
political
popular politics
social change
social science
social studies
subjugation
working class
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Democracy -- Mexico -- Coyoacán -- Public opinion
Working class -- Political activity -- Mexico -- Coyoacán
Working class -- Mexico -- Coyoacán -- Attitudes
Public opinion -- Mexico -- Coyoacán
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Democracy -- Public opinion
Politics and government
Public opinion
Working class -- Attitudes
Working class -- Political activity
Arbeiders.
Politieke activiteit.
Publieke opinie.
SUBJECT Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1988-
Santo Domingo de los Reyes (Mexico City, Mexico)
Subject Mexico
Mexico -- Coyoacán (Mexico City)
Mexico -- Mexico City -- Santo Domingo de los Reyes
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1597348767
9781597348768
0585468338
9780585468334
9780520936638
0520936639
1282762753
9781282762756
9786612762758
6612762756