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Neoliberalism, Transnationalization and Rural Poverty - A Case Study of MichoacA!n, Mexico (Hardcover)
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Neoliberalism, Transnationalization and Rural Poverty - A Case Study of MichoacA!n, Mexico (Hardcover)
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Carlos Salinas's government drew praise from many academic
commentators and foreign governments for its boldness in embarking
on neoliberal economic reforms that tackled some of the shibboleths
of the Mexican revolutionary tradition and for its supposedly
astute political management of change. This book offers a more
critical understanding of the economic, social, and political
dimensions of Salinismo. Although Gledhill focuses on its impact on
the rural sector in the state of MichoacA!n, he shows that the
problems of the region affect the United States as well as Mexico
because reform is being implemented within the framework of a
longer-term process of transnationalization of class relations and
global capitalist restructuring. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork
and anthropological theory, the book takes a close look at the
responses of a regional society to economic change and the
political strategies of the Salinas regime. Surveying the local
impact of changing agricultural policies, ejido reform, and the
U.S. Immigration Reform and Control Act, Gledhill distinguishes the
positions of different social groups and highlights the larger
processes in which the entire region is now caught up. Examining
the linkages between rural Mexico and the agribusiness farms and
factories of California, he underlines the political and social
implications of these evolving relationships on both sides of the
border, focusing on questions of hegemony and the role of
transnational migrant communities. Only by examining the fractured
social worlds of contemporary capitalism and the nature of the
politics of exclusion, he concludes, can we assess the true social
costs of neoliberal reform.
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