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

This book details how contentious politics that took place in three communal villages of Mexico alternately reproduced and reshaped inequality.

List 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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Viviane Brachet Márquez, Viviane Brachet-Marquez, Viviane Brachet-Márquez
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2014
• EAN: 9781107063310
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06331-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Mexico, Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Social discrimination and equal treatment