Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico

Published by Duke University Press 1994

Everyday Forms of State Formation

Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico

Edited by: Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822396666

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Everyday Forms of State Formation is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico. While most accounts have emphasized either the role of peasants and peasant rebellions or that of state formation in Mexico’s past, these original essays reveal the state’s day-to-day engagement with grassroots society by examining popular cultures and forms of the state simultaneously and in relation to one another.
Structured in the form of a dialogue between a distinguished array of Mexicanists and comparative social theorists, this volume boldly reassesses past analyses of the Mexican revolution and suggests new directions for future study. Showcasing a wealth of original archival and ethnographic research, this collection provides a new and deeper understanding of Mexico’s revolutionary experience. It also speaks more broadly to a problem of extraordinary contemporary relevance: the manner in which local societies and self-proclaimed "revolutionary" states are articulated historically. The result is a unique collection bridging social history, anthropology, historical sociology, and cultural studies in its formulation of new approaches for rethinking the multifaceted relationship between power, culture, and resistance.

Contributors. Ana María Alonso, Armando Bartra, Marjorie Becker, Barry Carr, Philip Corrigan, Romana Falcón, Gilbert M. Joseph, Alan Knight, Florencia E. Mallon, Daniel Nugent, Elsie Rockwell, William Roseberry, Jan Rus, Derek Sayer, James C. Scott

Author / Editor information

Gilbert M. Joseph is Professor of History and Chair of the Council of Latin American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Revolution From Without: Yucatán, Mexico, and the United States, also published by Duke University Press.

Daniel Nugent teaches anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Arizona and is a managing editor of the Journal of Historical Sociology.

Reviews

"The essays in Everyday Forms of State Formation brilliantly shift the understanding of the Mexican Revolution to a new analytical framework that highlights the mediations between power and everyday forms of resistance and organization. Drawing on new theoretical approaches to the processes of hegemony, the authors go beyond analyses that posit either a reified oppressive state or a homogenized, often romanticized notion of ‘the people’ as heroic subjects of revolutionary change."—George Yúdice, Hunter College

"This book represents something eminently new and original. I believe it will have a great impact and draw Mexico and its evolution into the general discussion of state formation, popular culture and revolution from which it has been significantly absent for a long time."—Friedrich Katz, University of Chicago

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword James C. Scott Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
State Formation Philip Corrigan Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
I. THEORETICAL PROLEGOMENA
Popular Culture and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Weapons and Arches in the Mexican Revolutionary Landscape Alan Knight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
II. EMPIRICAL STUDIES
Reflections on the Ruins: Everyday Forms of State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Florencia E. Mallon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Force and the Search for Consent: The Role of the Jefaturas Politicas of Coahuila in National State Formation Romana Falcon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Rethinking Mexican Revolutionary Mobilization: Yucatan's Seasons of Upheaval, 1909-1915 Gilbert M. Joseph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Schools of the Revolution: Enacting and Contesting State Forms in Tlaxcala, 1910-1930 Elsie Rockwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Multiple Selective Traditions in Agrarian Reform and Agrarian Struggle: Popular Culture and State Formation in the Ejido of Namiquipa, Chihuahua Daniel Nugent and Ana Marfa Alonso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Torching La Purfsima, Dancing at the Altar: The Construction of Revolutionary Hegemony in Michoacan, 1934-1940 Marjorie Becker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
The "Comunidad Revolucionaria Institucional": The Subversion of Native Government in Highland Chiapas, 1936-1968 Jan Rus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
The Seduction of the Innocents: The First Tumultuous Moments of Mass Literacy in Postrevolutionary Mexico Armando Bartra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
The Fate of the Vanguard under a Revolutionary State: Marxism's Contribution to the Construction of the Great Arch Barry Carr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
III. A THEORETICAL REPRISE
Hegemony and the Language of Contention William Roseberry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Everyday Forms of State Formation: Some Dissident Remarks on "Hegemony" Derek Sayer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 456
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- Other: 3 maps

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Published: June 15, 1994
ISBN: 9780822396666