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The romance of democracy : compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico / Matthew C. Gutmann.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Gutmann, Matthew C., 1953- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Democracy > Mexico > Mexico City > Public opinion.
Working class > Political activity > Mexico > Mexico City.
Working class > Mexico > Mexico City > Attitudes.
Public opinion > Mexico > Mexico City.
Mexico > Politics and government > 1988-
Santo Domingo de los Reyes (Mexico City, Mexico)
Democracy > Public opinion.
Politics and government.
Public opinion.
Working class > Attitudes.
Working class > Political activity.
Mexico.
Mexico > Coyoacán (Mexico City)
Mexico > Mexico City > Santo Domingo de los Reyes.
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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