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From: Gerardo Otero <otero@sfu.ca>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:21:14 -0500
To: anthap1@oakland.edu
Subject: New book on Mexico
Westview Press just published my edited book NEOLIBERALISM REVISITED:
ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND MEXICO'S POLITICAL FUTURE. Here's one bit from
the announcement:
Having unilaterally opened its borders to international competition
and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico has become one of the
world's leading proponents of economic liberalization. Nevertheless, as the
recent uprising of native peoples in Chiapas has made clear, economic
reforms are not universally welcomed.
This book addresses the challenges brought about by the
restructuring of the Mexican economy at a time when multiple organizations
of civil society are demanding a democratic poltical transition in a system
that has been dominated by one party for nearly seventy years. The
contributors identify the key social and political actors -- both domestic
and international -- involved in promoting or resisting the new economic
model and examine the role of the state in the restructuring process. They
explore such questions as: In what ways is the state intself being
reconstituted to accomodte the demand for change? How have Canada and the
United States responded to the increased internationalization of their
economies? What are the challenges and prospects for transnational
grassroots networks and labor solidarity? Answers are provided by scholars
from anthropology, economics, history, political science, and sociology, all
of whom promote interdisciplinary approaches to the issues. Each chapter
traces the structural transformations within the central social
relationships in Mexican society during the last decade or so and
anticipates future consquences of today's changes.
CONTENTS: Neoliberal Reform and Politics in Mexico: An Overview, GERARDO
OTERO. NAFTA and the Struggle for Neoliberalism: Mexico's Elusive Quest for
First World Status, GUSTAVO DEL CASTILLO V. The Debt Crisis and Economic
Restructuring: Prospects for Mexican Agriculture, MARILYN GATES. From
Export-Oriented to Import Oriented Industrialization: Changes in Mexico's
Manufacturing Sector, 1988-1994, ENRIQUE DUSSEL PETERS. Mexico's "Old" and
"New" Maquiladora Industries: Contrasting Approaches to North American
Integration, GARY GEREFFI. The Mexican Political Pretransition in
Comparative Perspective, ILAN SEMO. The Private Sector and Political Regime
Change in Mexico, FRANCISCO VALDES UGALDE. Economic Restructuring and the
Transformation of Mexican Corporatism, JUDITH TEICHMAN. Democracy for Whom?
Women's Grassroots Political Activism in the 1990s, Mexico City and Chiapas,
LYNN STEPHEN. Rural Reforms and the Zapatista Rebellion: Chiapas, 1988-1995,
NEIL HARVEY. Crossing Borders: Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA,,
BARRY CARR. Mexico's Economic and Political Futures, GERARDO OTERO.
U.S. orders: (303) 444-3541, fax: (303) 339-3356, credit card: (800) 386-5656.
Canadian orders, credit card: (800) 387-0117.
PRICES: US$16.95 (pb) and US$54.50 (hc).