Neoliberalism and commodity production in Mexico / Thomas Weaver ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weaver, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoliberalism--Mexico.

Neoliberalism.

Commercial products--Mexico.

Commercial products.

Working class--Social conditions.

Working class.

Mexico--Economic policy--21st century.

Mexico.

Mexico--Foreign economic relations.

Mexico--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico details the impact of neoliberal practice on the production and exchange of basic resources in working-class communities in Mexico. Using anthropological investigations and a market-driven approach, contributors explain how uneven policies have undermined constitutional protections and working-class interests since the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Detailed ethnographic fieldwork shows how foreign investment, privatization, deregulation, and elimination of welfare benefits have devastated national industries and natural resources and threatened agriculture, driving the campesinos and working class deeper into poverty. Focusing on specific commodity chains and the changes to production and marketing under neoliberalism, the contributors highlight the detrimental impacts of policies by telling the stories of those most affected by these changes. They detail the complex interplay of local and global forces, from the politically mediated systems of demand found at the local level to the increasingly powerful municipal and state governments and the global trade and banking institutions. Sharing a common theoretical perspective and method throughout the chapters, Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico is a multi-sited ethnography that makes a significant contribution to studies of neoliberal ideology in practice.

Contents:

Preface

The neoliberal transformation of Mexico / James B. Greenberg, Thomas Weaver, Anne Browning-Aiken, and William L. Alexander

Theorizing neoliberalism / James B. Greenberg, Thomas Weaver, Anne Browning-Aiken, and William L. Alexander

Neoliberalism and the transnational activity of the state : offshore control in the US-Mexico mango and Persian lime industry / Robert R. Alvarez

Tracing the trail of table grapes : the effects of neoliberal policies in Sonora, Mexico / Rebecca H. Carter and William L. Alexander

Maize and indigenous communities of Oaxaca : two victims of neoliberalism

Alvaro Gonzolez Ros disjuncture between economic policy and sustainable use of natural resources : water case studies in Sonora, Mexico / Anne Browning-Aiken

Privately unsustainable : ecological resiliency and watershed resources in an arid-land Ejido / Robert M. Emanuel

Policies of conservation and sustainable development : fishing communities in the Gulf of California, Mexico / Marcela Vosquez-Leon

Neoliberalism and the social relations of forestry production in Chihuahua / Thomas Weaver

The impact of world bank policies on indigenous communities / Salomon Nahmad

The impact of neoliberal policies on rural producers in Oaxaca, Mexico / James B. Greenberg

Neoliberal capital and the mobility approach in anthropology / James B. Greenberg and Josiah McC. Heyman

Coffee, neoliberalism, and social policy in Oaxaca / Paola Ma. Sesia

Up the mode in the period of post-neoliberalism / Thomas Weaver

Conclusion: structural adjustment, structural violence / James B. Greenberg, Thomas Weaver, Anne Browning-Aiken, and William L. Alexander

List of contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781457117411

145711741X

9781457117435

1457117436

9781607321729

1607321726

OCLC:

795128532