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Cover Claiming and Contesting Representation in Mexico

Claiming and Contesting Representation in Mexico

Meanings, Practices and Settings

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Editors:
Fernando Castaños
,
Silvia Inclán
, and
Michael Saward

Through innovative conceptual work and original case studies, the book explores important trends in Mexican politics and governance through the lens of representation, including who speaks and stands for whom, on what grounds and in what domains and the challenges they face.

Publisher:
Bristol University Press
Publication Date:
25 Mar 2024
Online ISBN:
9781529236262
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529236262
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Front Matter
Front Matter
1: Introduction
2: Representation: Disputable Claims, Contestable Concept
3: Representation in Complex Associative Systems: Exclusion and Embodiment
4: Paths to Agreement in Participatory Democracy: Three Cases in Yucatán
5: Daring Mexico City’s Government to Deliberate: Interplay between Representation and Participation
6: Contesting Gender Representation in Oaxaca’s Indigenous Communities
7: Ontological and Political Representation in Community Development Discourse
8: Acting as a Representative: The Case of the Executive Council of Global Corporations
9: Delivering Genuine Change and National Redemption: Representative Claims in Mexico’s 2018 Election
Afterword: The Travels and Travails of Political Representation
Back Matter
Index

Mexico is a country whose global political and economic significance are rapidly increasing. This book offers the first in-depth English-language analysis of the politics of representation in Mexico.

Through innovative conceptual work and original case studies, the book explores important trends in Mexican politics and governance through the lens of representation, including who speaks and stands for whom, on what grounds and in what domains and the challenges they face.

Revealing a significant portrait of major tensions in and challenges to democracy across Mexico emerges, this book will be of interest to those researching current trends in the theory and practice of political representation, and readers looking for new perspectives on Mexican politics and governance.

Fernando Castaños is a Senior Researcher in the Social Sciences Institute of Mexico’s National Autonomous University, UNAM.

Silvia Inclán is a Researcher in the Social Sciences Institute of Mexico’s National Autonomous University, UNAM.

Michael Saward is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Author/Editor details at time of book publication.

Copyright:
© Bristol University Press 2024
Hardback ISBN:
9781529236248
ePub ISBN:
9781529236255
Online ISBN:
9781529236262
Page Extent:
208
Keywords:
the representative claim; social constructivism; variable representation; contextual dependence; Mexican politics; governance in Mexico; social movements in Mexico; Andrés Manuel López Obrador; democracy and democratization; political representation
Global Social Challenges:
Democracy, Power and Governance
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Subject:
General Non-Fiction, Current Affairs and Politics, Politics and International Relations, Latin American Politics, Political Participation and Behaviour
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