Structural change and neoliberalism in Mexico: 'Passive revolution' in the global political economy
In: Third world quarterly, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 631-653
ISSN: 1360-2241
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In: Third world quarterly, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 631-653
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 153-180
ISSN: 0893-5696
In: Bulletin of Latin American research: the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Band 22, Heft 1, S. 27-51
ISSN: 1470-9856
This article seeks to raise meaningful questions about the role, or wider social function, of the intellectual within state–civil society relations in Latin America characterised by conditions of socio–economic modernisation. It does so by pursuing such questions through a detailed examination of the social function of Carlos Fuentes as an intellectual in Mexico. Through a focus on the social function of Carlos Fuentes, it is possible to distinguish the role intellectual activity can play in the construction and contestation of hegemony in Mexico. Most crucially, the article prompts consideration of the social basis of hegemony and the agency of intellectuals organically tied to particular social forces functioning through state–civil society relations in the struggle over hegemony. Put differently, it is possible to grant due regard to the mixture of critical opposition and accommodation that has often confronted the intellectual within Latin America.
In: International affairs, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 177-178
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 27-54
ISSN: 0305-8298
In: International affairs, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 169-170
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: International affairs, Band 78, Heft 2, S. 381-382
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 27-54
ISSN: 1477-9021
This article develops an analysis of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, active in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. Taking recent reflections on neoliberal globalisation and resistance as its point of departure, questions are raised about how the EZLN movement is a response to specific historical circumstances in Chiapas; how the EZLN is a response to the restructuring of the capitalist system on a global scale; and how it is probing the social and political found ations of a future order by challenging the legitimacy and authority of the Mexican state. The article proceeds along two main lines of inquiry in order to emphasise the past, present and future dimensions of the EZLN movement. Firstly, the roots of the rebellion are situated within changing relations of production that affected Chiapas in the 1970s, which led to a grow th of radical peasant organisations. The more immediate context of the rebellion is also discussed in relation to the restructuring of capital in Mexico represented by the rise of neoliberalism and increased coercion throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Secondly, the innovative methods of struggle developed by the EZLN are analysed within the categories of counter-hegemonic resistance developed by Antonio Gramsci. Overall, these various aspects of the EZLN are discussed to show how the movement has mounted a critique of social power relations within Mexico as well as the conditions of world order by contesting and resisting neoliberal globalisation.
In: International affairs, Band 77, Heft 3, S. 763
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: International affairs, Band 77, Heft 2, S. 475
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: International affairs, Band 77, Heft 1, S. 236-237
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe, S. 25-43
In: International affairs, Band 76, Heft 3, S. 650-651
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: Globalization and the Politics of Resistance, S. 255-279
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 185-187
ISSN: 0305-8298