Mexico and the Caribbean Under Castro's Eyes - A Journal of Decolonization, State Formation and Democratization

This book provides a first-hand account of the author's encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume: decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban revolution, the cold war and student radicalism.

List of contents

1: Introduction: Mexico and the Caribbean.- 2: Mexico in 1966.- 3: The Caribbean in the Late 1960s.- 4: The Caribbean in the Early 1970s.- 5: Oaxaca, Mexico, and Barbuda in 1978.

About the author

Colin Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, UK.

Summary

This book provides a first-hand account of the author’s encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume: decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban revolution, the cold war and student radicalism.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Clarke
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319771694
• ISBN: 978-3-31-977169-4
• No. of pages: 261
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 25 mm x 218 mm
• Weight: 488 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 261 p. 26 illus.
• Series: Studies of the Americas; Studies of the Americas
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; B, Sociology, Social Geography, Political Science, Political Sociology, Regional Development, Cultural Geography, Politics & government, Political Science and International Studies, Economic development, Human Geography, Development Studies, Latin America—Politics and government, South & Central America (including Mexico), Latin America, Latin American Politics, Development and Post-Colonialism, Social and Cultural Geography