Contention and the Dynamics of Inequality in Mexico, 1910-2010

by Viviane Brachet-Márquez

Overview

This book details how contentious politics - everyday as well as exceptional, local as well as national - that took place in three communal villages of Mexico alternately reproduced and reshaped inequality. Narrated and analyzed as instances of the general process of contention, these events took place during three key periods of Mexico's history: the 1910–20 revolution, the Cold War period from the 1950s to the 1970s, and from the 1980s to the present. Together, these episodes of contention build and test a theory of the making and unmaking of inequality in theoretically ideal conditions, illustrating the dynamics of this all-pervasive facet of social organization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781139905596
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/14/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	571 KB

About the Author

Viviane Brachet-Marquez is Professor of Sociology at El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos. Her work has been published in a number of publications in a variety of languages, including Sciences Sociales et Santé, Cahiers des Amériques Latines, Estudios Sociológicos, Diálogos, World Development, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Contemporary Sociology, the Journal of Public Affairs, and Administraçao de Empresas. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Contention, structuration, and the pact of domination: piecing together the puzzle; 2. The contexts of contention in the villages of Morelos; 3. From contending over the restitution of land to changing the pact of domination, 1910–24; 4. Confrontation and conciliation in Ahuatlán, 1953–72; 5. Land, corruption, and profit in Ocotlán, 1980–2010; Conclusion.