Donna L Chollett

Neoliberalism, Social Exclusion, and Social Movements

Resistance and Dissent in Mexico's Sugar Industry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Neoliberalism, Social Exclusion, and Social Movements critically examines struggles for social justice in an era of neoliberal globalization. Its framework makes significant connections between debt restructuring, privatizations, free-market policies, and grassroots efforts to create alternatives to social and economic exclusion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780739182253
• ISBN-10: 0739182250
• Artikelnr.: 39046490

Autorenporträt

By Donna L. Chollett

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Theorizing
"Global-Local" Relations 2. Constructing the Cultural-Historical Matrix of
Cane Production 3. The Cultural Construction of Cane Production in Puruarán
4. The Neoliberal Turn & Privatization of Mexico's Sugar Industry 5. NAFTA
and the Neo-Globalization of Sugar 6. Reclaiming Power and Forging
Alternatives 7. The Legal Interlude and Regeneration of the Social Movement
8. The Precarious Fate of Ingenio Puruarán 9. Resistance under
Circumstances Not of Their Own Choosing 10. "Like an Ox Yoke:" The Myth of
Intrinsically Virtuous Social Movements Notes Acronyms and Spanish Terms
References Index About the Author