Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-m6dg7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-15T16:48:51.121Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Neoliberal Reform in Rural Mexico: Social Structural and Political Dimensions

Review products

AGRARIAN STRUCTURE AND POLITICAL POWER IN MEXICO. By BartraRoger. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. 221. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.)
MEXICO'S SECOND AGRARIAN REFORM: HOUSEHOLD AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES. By JanvryAlain de, GordilloGustavo, and SadouletElisabeth. (La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1997. Pp. 222 $16.00 paper.)
DECENTRALIZATION AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN MEXICO: COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN OAXACA'S MUNICIPAL FUNDS PROGRAM. By JonathanFox and ArandaJosefina. (La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1996. Pp. 74. $11.95 paper.)

Show more reviewed productsShow more reviewed products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Gerardo Otero
Gerardo Otero*
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Review Essays
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , 2000 , pp. 187 - 207
Copyright
Copyright © 2000 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

∗

Thanks are due to my colleague Marilyn Gates, who made useful comments on a previous version of this essay. I also wish to acknowledge the funding of my research by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

References

APPENDINI, KIRSTEN A. DE, AND SALLES, VANIA ALMEIDA 1976 “Agricultura capitalista y agricultura campesina en México: Diferencias regionales en base de datos censales.” In Rodolfo Stavenhagen et al., Capitalismo y campesinado en México, 29–68. Mexico City: Secretaría de Educación Pública and Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.Google Scholar
APPENDINI, KIRSTEN A. DE, AND SALLES, VANIA ALMEIDA 1980 “Precios de garantía y crisis agrícola.” Nueva Antropología 4, nos. 13–14 (May).Google Scholar
BAITENMANN, HELGA 1998 “The Article 27 Reforms and the Promise of Local Democratization in Central Veracruz.” In CORNELIUS AND MYHRE 1998, 105–23.Google Scholar
BARRY, TOM 1995 Zapata's Revenge: Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico. Boston, Mass.: South End.Google Scholar
BARTRA, ARMANDO 1979a La explotación del trabajo campesino por el capital. Mexico City: Macehual.Google Scholar
BARTRA, ARMANDO 1979b Notas sobre la cuestión campesina (México, 1970–76). Mexico City: Macehual and Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH).Google Scholar
BARTRA, ROGER 1974 Estructura agraria y clases sociales en México. Mexico City: Era.Google Scholar
BARTRA, ROGER 1997 “Violencias indígenas: Usos, costumbres y sociedad civil.” La Jornada Semanal, no. 120 (August).Google Scholar
BARTRA, ROGER 1998 “Sangre y tinta del kitsch tropical.” Fractal, no. 8 (Aug.) (published in Mexico City).Google Scholar
BARTRA, ROGER, AND OTERO, GERARDO 1987 “Agrarian Crisis and Social Differentiation in Mexico.” Journal of Peasant Studies 14, no. 3:334–62.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
BREMNER, BRIAN, AND IHLWAN, MOON 1998 “Korea: Rage and Despair.” Business Week (17 Aug.):47–48.Google Scholar
CARR, BARRY, AND ELLNER, STEVE 1993 The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika. Boulder, Colo.: Westview.Google Scholar
CARTON DE GRAMMONT, HUBERT 1990 Empresarios agrícolas y el Estado: Sinaloa, 1893–1984. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.Google Scholar
CARTON DE GRAMMONT, HUBERT, ED. 1986 Asalariados agrícolas y sindicalismo en el campo mexicano. Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de México, and Juan Pablos.Google Scholar
CARTON DE GRAMMONT, HUBERT, ED. 1995 Globalización, deterioro ambiental y reorganización social en el campo. Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de México, and Juan Pablos.Google Scholar
CARTON DE GRAMMONT, HUBERT, AND GAONA, HECTOR TEJERA, EDS. 1996 Nuevos procesos rurales en México: Teorías, estudios de caso y perspectivas. 4 vols. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, and Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, and Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.Google Scholar
CASTAÑEDA, JORGE G. 1993 Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left after the Cold War. New York: Knopf.Google Scholar
COLLIER, GEORGE A., QUARATIELLO, WITH ELIZABETH LOWERY 1994 Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas. Oakland, Calif.: Institute for Food and Development Policy.Google Scholar
COOK, MARIA LORENA 1996 Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico. University Park: Pennsylvania State University.Google Scholar
CORNELIUS, WAYNE A. 1992 “The Politics and Economics of Reforming the Ejido Sector in Mexico: An Overview and Research Agenda.” LASA Forum 23, no. 3:3–10.Google Scholar
CORNELIUS, WAYNE A., CRAIG, ANN L., AND FOX, JONATHAN, EDS. 1994 Transforming State-Society Relations in Mexico: The National Solidarity Strategy. U.S.Mexico Contemporary Perspectives Series, no. 6. La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.Google Scholar
CORNELIUS, WAYNE, AND MYHRE, DAVID, EDS. 1998 The Transformation of Rural Mexico: Reforming the Ejido Sector. La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.Google Scholar
DE JANVRY, ALAIN 1981 The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.Google Scholar
DE WALT, BILLIE R., AND REES, MARTHA W., WITH MURPHY, ARTHUR D. 1994 The End of Agrarian Reform in Mexico: Past Lessons, Future Prospects. Transformation of Rural Mexico Series, no. 3. La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.Google Scholar
DIAMOND, LARRY 1992 “Introduction: Civil Society and the Struggle for Democracy.” In The Democratic Revolution: The Struggles for Freedom and Pluralism in the Developing World, edited by Diamond, Larry, 1–27. New York: Praeger.Google Scholar
EDELMAN, ROBERT 1987 Proletarian Peasants: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
ENCINAS R., ALEJANDRO, DE LA FUENTE, JUAN, MACKINLAY, HORACIO, AND ROMERO, EMILIO, EDS. 1995 El campo mexicano en el umbral del siglo XXI. Mexico City: Espasa Calpe.Google Scholar
FOLEY, MICHAEL W. 1989 “Agricultural Policy and Politics: Theory and Practice.” LARR 24, no. 1:233–49.Google Scholar
GARCIA ZAMORA, RODOLFO 1997 La agricultura en el laberinto de la modernidad. Serie Economía, Espacio y Población. Zacatecas: Facultad de Economía, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas.Google Scholar
GATES, MARILYN 1993 In Default: Peasants, the Debt Crisis, and the Agricultural Challenge in Mexico. Boulder, Colo.: Westview.Google Scholar
GATES, MARILYN 1996 “The Debt Crisis and Economic Restructuring: Prospects for Mexican Agriculture.” In OTERO, ED., 1996, 43–62.Google Scholar
GLEDHILL, JOHN 1995 Neoliberalism, Transnationalization, and Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Michoacán, Mexico. Boulder, Colo.: Westview.Google Scholar
GORDILLO, GUSTAVO 1988 Campesinos al asalto del cielo: Una reforma agraria con autonomía. Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno.Google Scholar
HARRIS, RICHARD L. 1978 “Marxism and the Agrarian Question in Latin America.” Latin American Perspectives 5, no. 4:2–26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
HARRIS, RICHARD L. 1992 Marxism, Socialism, and Democracy in Latin America. Boulder, Colo.: Westview.Google Scholar
HARVEY, NEIL 1996 “Rural Reforms and the Zapatista Rebellion: Chiapas, 1988–95.” In OTERO, ED., 1996, 187–208.Google Scholar
HARVEY, NEIL 1998 The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.Google Scholar
HEWITT DE ALCANTARA, CYNTHIA 1984 Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico. New York: Routledge and Keagan Paul.Google Scholar
KATZ, FRIEDERICH 1982 La guerra secreta en México. 2 vols. Mexico City: Era.Google Scholar
LACLAU, ERNESTO 1977 Ideology and Politics in Marxist Theory. London: New Left Books.Google Scholar
LACLAU, ERNESTO, AND MOUFFE, CHANTAL 1985 Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Toward a Radical Democratic Politics. London: Verso.Google Scholar
MEIKSINS WOOD, ELLEN 1995 Democracy against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism. New York: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MOGUEL, JULIO, BOTEY, CARLOTA, AND HERNANDEZ, LUIS, EDS. 1992 Autonomía y nuevos sujetos sociales en el desarrollo rural. Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno and Centro de Estudios Históricos del Agrarismo en México (CEHAM).Google Scholar
OTERO, GERARDO 1989a “Agrarian Reform in Mexico: Capitalism and the State.” In Searching for Agrarian Reform in Latin America, edited by Thiesenhusen, William, 276–304. Boston, Mass.: Unwin Hyman.Google Scholar
OTERO, GERARDO 1989b “The New Agrarian Movement: Toward Self-Management and Democratic Production.” Latin American Perspectives 16, no. 4:29–59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
OTERO, GERARDO 1998 “Atencingo Revisited: Political Class Formation and Economic Restructuring in Mexico's Sugar Industry.” Rural Sociology 63, no. 2:272–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
OTERO, GERARDO 1999 Farewell to the Peasantry? Political Class Formation in Rural Mexico. Boulder, Colo.: Westview.Google Scholar
OTERO, GERARDO, ED. 1996 Neoliberalism Revisited: Economic Restructuring and Mexico's Political Future. Boulder, Colo.: Westview.Google Scholar
OTERO, GERARDO, SINGELMANN, PETER, AND PREIBISCH, KERRY 1995 “La fin de la réforme agraire et les nouvelles politiques agricoles au Mexique.” In Le Mexique, de la réforme néo-libérale à la contre-révolution: La présidence de Carlos Salinas de Gortari, edited by Favre, Henri and Lapointe, Marie, 241–73. Paris: L'Harmattan.Google Scholar
PARE, LUISA 1977 El proletariado agrícola en México. Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno.Google Scholar
RANDALL, LAURA 1996 Reforming Mexico's Agrarian Reform. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe.Google Scholar
RUBIN, JEFFREY W. 1997 Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.Google Scholar
SEMO, ILAN 1996 “The Mexican Political Pretransition in Comparative Perspective.” In OTERO, ED., 1996, 107–26.Google Scholar
VELTMEYER, HENRY 1997 “New Social Movements in Latin America: The Dynamics of Class and Identity.” Journal of Peasant Studies 25, no. 1:139–69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
WOLF, ERIC 1969 Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century. New York: Harper and Row.Google Scholar