The romance of democracy : compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico /
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ISBN: | 1597348767 9781597348768 0585468338 9780585468334 9780520936638 0520936639 1282762753 9781282762756 0520220994 9780520220997 0520235282 9780520235281 9786612762758 6612762756 |
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Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record. |
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. |
Other form: | Print version: Gutmann, Matthew C., 1953- Romance of democracy. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2002 |
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