Download or read book Becoming Campesinos written by Christopher Robert Boyer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Campesinos argues that the formation of the campesino as both a political category and a cultural identity in Mexico was one of the most enduring legacies of the great revolutionary upheavals that began in 1910. The author maintains that the understanding of popular-class unity conveyed by the term campesino originated in the interaction of post-revolutionary ideologies and agrarian militancy during the 1920s and 1930s. The book uses oral histories, archival documents, and partisan newspapers to trace the history of one movement born of this dynamic—agrarismo in the state of Michoacán.
Download or read book Becoming Campesinos written by Christopher R. Boyer and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Campesinos argues that the formation of the campesino as both a political category and a cultural identity in Mexico was one of the most enduring legacies of the great revolutionary upheavals that began in 1910. Challenging the assumption that rural peoples "naturally" share a sense of cultural solidarity and political consciousness because of their subordinate social status, the author maintains that the particular understanding of popular-class unity conveyed by the term campesino originated in the interaction of post-revolutionary ideologies and agrarian militancy during the 1920s and 1930s. The book uses oral histories, archival documents, and partisan newspapers to trace the history of one movement born of this dynamic--agrarismo in the state of Michoacán. The author argues that the interaction of grassroots militancy and political mobilization from the top meant that the rural populace entered the political sphere, not as indigenous people or rural proletarians, but as a class-like social category of campesinos.
Download or read book The Struggle for Rural Mexico written by Gustavo Esteva and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1983-07-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NAFTA and the Campesinos written by Juan M. Rivera and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, has been one of the most hotly contested political and economic issues of the past 20 years. Contrary to much of the discussion in the U. S. media, this volume examines small family farms in Mexico which have fared worse economically since NAFTA s passage. A distinguished group of contributors provide historical background, policy analysis, case studies, comparisons with large agribusiness corporations, and recommendations for ways to improve the situation of small farms in the future. This volume will be essential to the understanding of multinational trade issues and agriculture in the twenty-first century."
Download or read book Campesino a Campesino written by Eric Holt-Giménez and published by Food First Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campesino a Campesino tells the inspiring story of a true grassroots movement: poor peasant farmers teaching one another how to protect their environment while still earning a living. The first book in English about the farmer-led sustainable agriculture movement in Latin America, Campesino a Campesino includes lots of first-person stories and commentary from the farmer-teachers, mixing personal accounts with detailed analysis of the political, socioeconomic, and ecological factors that galvanized the movement. Campesino farmer leading a farmer to farmer training session in Mexico by Eric Holt-GimenezMany years ago, author Eric Holt-Gim�nez was a volunteer trying to teach sustainable agriculture techniques in the dusty highlands of central Mexico, with little success. Near the end of his tenure, he invited a group of visiting Guatemalan farmers to teach a course in his village. What he saw was like nothing he had known. The Guatemalans used parables, stories, and humor to present agricultural improvement to their Mexican compadres as a logical outcome of clear thinking and compassion; love of farming, of family, of nature, and of community. Rather than try to convince the Mexicans of their innovations, they insisted they experiment new things on a small scale first to see how well they worked. And they saw themselves as students, respecting the Mexicans' deep, lifelong knowledge of their own particular land and climate. All they asked in return was that the Mexicans turn around and share their new knowledge with others--which they did. CAC campo3_photo by Food FirstThis exchange was typical of a grassroots movement called Campesino a Campesino, or Farmer to Farmer, which has grown up in southern Mexico and war-torn Central America over the last three decades. In the book Campesino a Campesino, Holt-Gim�nez writes the first history of the movement, describing the social, political, economic, and environmental circumstances that shape it. The voices and stories of dozens of farmers in the movement are captured, bringing to vivid life this hopeful story of peasant farmers helping one another to farm sustainably, protecting their land, their environment, and their families' future.
Download or read book Los Campesinos Farmworkers written by María L. Villagómez Victoria and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a tribute to farmworkers. Specifically, it is an attempt to share with children from around the world the excellent work ethic of farmworkers. Farmworkers are among the most hardworking people. They enjoy their work and are proud of the work they do. Their stories need to be heard. This book highlights the joy of an excellent work ethic. Also, this book honors a small aspect of the lives of tens of thousands of farmworkers in California, USA.
Download or read book Condemning the campesino written by Kenneth James Miller and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future Role of the Ejido in Rural Mexico written by Richard Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how reforms to Mexico's agrarian legislation changed the ejido's traditional role as the principal economic and political agent in the countryside.
Download or read book Agriculture and Residential Site Structure Among Campesinos in Southern Veracruz Mexico written by Thomas W. Killion and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua 1959 1965 written by Elizabeth Henson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recounts Mexico's pivotal first socialist guerilla struggle in 1965, when armed farmers, agricultural workers, students, and teachers attacked an army base in Chihuahua with deadly consequences"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Rural Reform in Mexico written by Raúl Salinas de Gortari and published by University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexicanstudies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report on rural reform in Mexico.
Download or read book Strategies for Resource Management Production and Marketing in Rural Mexico written by Guadalupe Rodríguez Gómez and published by Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies University of Cali. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors explore the varied strategies for resource management, production, and marketing that Mexico's campesinos have pursued in response to the dramatic changes in rural Mexico in the 1990s.
Download or read book Agriculture and Residential Site Structure Among Campesinos in Southern Veracruz Mexico written by Thomas William Killion and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices in Mexico written by Jürgen Hesse and published by White Rock, B.C. : Thinkware Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Voices in Mexico are an intimate insight into Mexican reality, an eclectic selection of middle-class Mexican citizens, emigrados, and well-informed frequent visitors who offer a diversified insight into Mexico as it approaches the next century, its 90-plus million people unsure of what the future will hold for them. Among the author's conversations with these middle-class verbal essayists are "a great white medicine man," the wife of a state government minister, a peripatetic vagabond, a protector of turtles, a macho-despiser, a patron of the arts, a travel agency executive, a historian, a pharmaceutical agent, a government accountant, a public school teacher, a respected newspaper columnist, a university technocrat, an expatriate director of a language school, an emigrado writer, a hot-shot art dealer, a social worker, a human ecologist, an artist, and more. Out of these conversations, which range from 1988 to 1995, emerges a portrait of Mexico painted with passion and compassion, with praise and criticism, with sensitivity and intelligence, and, above all, with confidence and hope in a good and better future.
Download or read book Unrevolutionary Mexico written by Paul Gillingham and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential history of how the Mexican Revolution gave way to a unique one-party state In this book Paul Gillingham addresses how the Mexican Revolution (1910–1940) gave way to a capitalist dictatorship of exceptional resilience, where a single party ruled for seventy-one years. Yet while soldiers seized power across the rest of Latin America, in Mexico it was civilians who formed governments, moving punctiliously in and out of office through uninterrupted elections. Drawing on two decades of archival research, Gillingham uses the political and social evolution of the states of Guerrero and Veracruz as starting points to explore this unique authoritarian state that thrived not despite but because of its contradictions. Mexico during the pivotal decades of the mid-twentieth century is revealed as a place where soldiers prevented military rule, a single party lost its own rigged elections, corruption fostered legitimacy, violence was despised but decisive, and a potentially suffocating propaganda coexisted with a critical press and a disbelieving public.
Download or read book The Struggle for Maize written by Elizabeth Fitting and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When scientists discovered transgenes in local Mexican corn varieties in 2001, their findings intensified a debate about not only the import of genetically modified (GM) maize into Mexico but also the fate of the peasantry under neoliberal globalization. While the controversy initially focused on the extent to which gene flow from transgenic to local varieties threatens maize biodiversity, anti-GM activists emphasized the cultural significance of the crop in Mexico and demanded that campesinos and consumers have a voice in the creation of GM maize and rural policies. In The Struggle for Maize, Elizabeth Fitting explores the competing claims of the GM corn debate in relation to the livelihood struggles of small-scale maize producers, migrants, and maquiladora workers from the southern Tehuacán Valley. She argues that the region’s biodiversity is affected by state policies that seek to transform campesinos into entrepreneurs and rural residents into transnational migrant laborers. While corn production and a campesino identity remain important to an older generation, younger residents have little knowledge of or interest in maize agriculture; they seek out wage labor in maquiladoras and the United States. Fitting’s ethnography illustrates how agricultural producers and their families respond creatively to economic hardship and Mexico’s “neoliberal corn regime,” which promotes market liberalization, agricultural “efficiency,” and the reduction of state services over domestic maize production and food sovereignty.
Download or read book Meaningful Resistance written by Erica S. Simmons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring marketization, local practices, and protests, this book shows how market-driven subsistence threats can be powerful loci for resistance movements.
