Popular Mobilization in Mexico
Popular Mobilization in Mexico
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This book explores the process of popular mobilisation in contemporary Mexico through the experience of the country's most important popular organisation - the teachers' movement. It creates a distinctive perspective on Mexican politics and makes an interesting contribution to the study of popular or 'social' movements. This in-depth study of a popular movement in Latin America provides a richly detailed account of its organisation, leadership, strategic choices, and factional divisions. Through its innovative methods, which produce an unusual and compelling blend of fact and theory, the book uncovers the motivations and mechanisms of popular mobilization, as well as explaining its interactions with national politics in Mexico and beyond.
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"A major strength of 'Popular Mobilization in Mexico' is found in the sections dealing with the relationships among the CNTE, the SNTE, the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), and the Mexican state. Foweraker's focus on Chiapas is another strength, for as he notes, that state 'was the pioneer of political mobilization by teachers nationwide.'" Paul Haber, Latin American Research Review
Product details
June 2002Paperback
9780521523349
224 pages
229 × 152 × 13 mm
0.34kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Glossary of acronyms
- Introduction: the character and context of popular mobilization in contemporary Mexico
- Part I. Popular Movement and Syndical Struggle:
- 1. Teachers as political actors
- 2. The original impetus
- 3. The institutional terrain
- Part II. Inside the Movement in Chiapas:
- 4. Leadership and grass roots
- 5. Strategic choices
- 6. Factional strife
- Part III. National Mobilization and System Responses:
- 7. Regional movements
- 8. Institutional controls
- 9. Popular strategies
- Part IV. Popular Movements and Political Change:
- 10. Institutional linkage
- 11. The political system
- 12. The political meaning of popular movements
- Bibliography
- Index.
