The Illusion of Civil Society - Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico

About the author

Jon Shefner is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Global Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Summary

Addresses the success and failures of the Union de Colonos Independientes (UCI), a community organization in Guadalajara, Mexico. Critiques the civil society concept and questions the strategy of political democratization as a way to assert control over the global economy.

Product details

• Authors: Jon (University of Tennesse-Knoxville) Shefner, Shefner Jon
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2012
• EAN: 9780271033853
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03385-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Poverty & unemployment, Political structures: democracy, Comparative Politics, Urban communities