Folkloric Poverty - Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Mexico

About the author

Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez is Associate Professor of Sociology at Whittier College.

Summary

Analyzes the crisis indigenous political groups faced in Mexico at the turn of the twenty-first century. Focuses on an indigenous peoples movement in the state of Guerrero that gained unprecedented national and international prominence in the 1990s and yet was defunct by 2002.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca (Assistant Professor of Sociology Overmyer-Velazquez, Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2014
• EAN: 9780271036588
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03658-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Karten
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Mexico, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Political activism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Political activism / Political engagement