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9780271033853 Academic Inspection Copy

The Illusion of Civil Society

Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico
  • ISBN-13: 9780271033853
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Jon Shefner
  • Price: AUD $77.99
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  • Local release date: 31/05/2012
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]
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Addresses the success and failures of the Union 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.



“This volume is a finely wrought piece of scholarship that will appeal not only to students of civil society but also to scholars (and critics) of neo-liberalism, globalization, democratization, patron-client relations, and urban transformation in Latin America and other parts of the global south.”

—Ebenezer Obadare, Contemporary Sociology

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