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.

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Colin Clarke
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2018
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche comparate e internazionali
• EAN: 9783319771694
• ISBN: 978-3-31-977169-4
• Numero di pagine: 261
• Illustrazioni: XVII, 261 p. 26 illus.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.1 x 2.5 x 21.8 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 488 g
• Serie: Studies of the Americas; Studies of the Americas
• Categorie: 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