The illusion of civil society : democratization and community mobilization in low-income Mexico /
Addresses the success and failures of the Unión de Colonos Independientes (UCI), a community organization in Guadalajara, Mexico. Critiques the civil society concept and questions the strategy of political democratization as a way to assert control over the global economy.
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- In the streets with Mexico's democracy movement
- From global economy to local politics
- Cerro del Cuatro and the origins of the UCI
- Mobilizing for basic needs
- Electoral strategy and the diminution of popular support
- From crisis to survival
- Democratization and changing politics
- Democratization, civil society, and class conflict.