The romance of democracy : compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico /

The romance of democracy : compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gutmann, Matthew C., 1953- author.
Imprint:	Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xxx, 289 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
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. Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1988- Santo Domingo de los Reyes (Mexico City, Mexico) Mexico. Mexico -- Coyoacán (Mexico City) Mexico -- Mexico City -- Santo Domingo de los Reyes. Electronic books. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11144432

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ISBN:	1597348767 9781597348768 0585468338 9780585468334 9780520936638 0520936639 1282762753 9781282762756 0520220994 9780520220997 0520235282 9780520235281 9786612762758 6612762756
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

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.