The Reinvention of Mexico National Ideology in a Neoliberal Era / O'Toole, Gavin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Toole, Gavin, author.

Series:

Liverpool Latin American studies ; 12

Liverpool Latin American Studies 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Other Title:

Liverpool University Press Opening the Future.

Place of Publication:

4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool L69 7ZU Liverpool University Press 2010

Summary:

The Reinvention of Mexico explores the ideological conflict between neoliberalism and nationalism that has been at the core of economic and political developments in Latin America since the mid-1980s. It focuses on Mexico, which offers a unique opportunity to study one of the ruptures in 20th-century political thought that has come to define an era of unprecedented globalization. The book examines how neoliberals dismantling the statist economy in Mexico under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-94) confronted the dominant, official ideology upon which the country's development had hitherto been based: revolutionary nationalism. It also considers how intellectuals and the main political forces to the left and right of the PRI grappled with the issues generated by the climate of market reform, in a period when there appeared to be few ideological alternatives to it, and the broader effort to reconcile economic liberalism with revolutionary nationalism that Salinas was attemptin... Publisher description

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Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781781388228

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access