Scholars focusing on the intersection between law and gender tend to give attention to those aspects of the legal system that create and/or perpetuate hierarchical social relations based upon ...idealized notions of femininity, masculinity, and heteronormativity. In some instances, discrimination, unequal treatment, or power structures based upon naturalized conceptions of sexual difference are more or less explicit in laws, court procedures, jurisprudence, and so forth. In other contexts, the ideas that sustain a gendered asymmetry of rights and obligations are profoundly implicit; they can only be exposed by peeling away layers of constructed signification to reveal what Appignanesi and Garratt
This chapter is an effort to rethink state–society relations in light of what can be loosely characterised as a new generation of state-formation studies.¹ In the last decade or so, a number of ...scholars have revisited old (mainly Europecentred) questions about state-building, seeking to explain state formation in a number of other geographical regions.² In the case of Latin America, for example, one can identify two general trends. One group, primarily made up of historians and anthropologists, is likely to debate the work of Antonio Gramsci, the Subaltern Studies Group and James Scott’sWeapons of the Weak. Another group
The article focuses on the relationship between the municipality & the agrarian reform movement after the Mexican Revolution, considering them as two incompatible political platforms. Practical ...effects of this complex relationship are illustrated by case studies from Tijuana & Mexicali. 49 References. Adapted from the source document.
Examines the relationship between municipalities and the agrarian reform movement after the Mexican revolution; case studies of Tijuana and Mexicali. Summary in English p. 210.
This dissertation reexamines the history of agrarian reform in twentieth-century Mexico, offering new interpretations of the reform's role in the process of postrevolutionary state formation. The ...principal empirical focus is on the long-term trajectory of agrarian reform in central Veracruz between 1915 and 1992, with special attention to linkages between local and regional histories and national processes of state formation. Among other topics, the dissertation reconsiders theories of the state and the peasantry in Mexico, addressing both classic interpretations that stress centralized clientelism and more recent studies focusing on hegemony and resistance. One of the dissertation's contributions is to shift attention from state-society dichotomies to the multiple sites of power which emerged in the long process of postrevolutionary state-building in rural Mexico. Toward this end, the dissertation places special emphasis on two central components of state formation: the formulation and enactment of laws, and the execution of administrative procedures. Different chapters provide a detailed account of how such mechanisms of power were constructed and reproduced and locate them in concrete social spaces. This is accomplished through the author's ethnographic work, oral and life histories, and use of agrarian reform archival materials. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part I reconstructs the history of the agrarian reform chronologically. The chapters in this section redefine the nature of Mexico's agrarian reform and re-date its beginnings; challenge characterizations of the agrarian movement in Veracruz as a unified peasant movement demanding land; question the importance that previous studies have given to corporatist ties between peasant organizations and Mexico's postrevolutionary ruling party; and describe the legacy (and the final undoing) of the agrarian reform in Mexico. Part II examines particular thematic dimensions of agrarian reform and postrevolutionary state formation. In particular, the chapters in this section use local and regional histories to explore broader issues regarding the role of the agrarian reform in postrevolutionary state formation. These include: the construction of collective rights in a liberal system; the overlap between agrarian rights and civil rights; and the creation of local (ejido) administrations that operated parallel to municipal governments.
