Everyday Forms of State Formation

Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico

Author: Joseph, Gilbert M.; Nugent, Daniel
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822314523
eISBN Pdf: 9780822396666
Place of publication: Durham , United States
Year of digital publication: 1994
Month: June
Pages: 456
DDC: 320.972/09/04
Language: English

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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

Contents
Foreword // James C. Scott
Preface
State Formation // Philip Corrigan
I. Theoretical Prolegomena
- Popular Culture and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico // Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent
- Weapons and Arches in the Mexican Revolutionary Landscape // Alan Knight
II. Empirical Studies
- Reflections on the Ruins: Everyday Forms of State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico // Florencia E. Mallon
- Force and the Search for Consent: The ROle of the Jefaturas Politicas of Coahuila in National State Formation // Romana Falcon
- Rethinking Mexican Revolutionary Mobilization: Yucatan's Seasons of Upheaval, 1909-1915 // Gilbert M. Joseph
- Schools of the Revolution: Enacting and Contesting State Forms in Tlaxcala, 1910-1930 // Elsie Rockwell
- Multiple Selective Traditions in Agrarian Reform and Agrarian Struggle: Popular Culture and State Formation in the Ejido of Namiquipa, Chihuahua // Daniel Nugent and Ana Maria Alonso
- Torching La Purisima, Dancing at the Altar: The Construction of Revolutionary Hegemony in Michoacan, 1934-1940 // Marjorie Becker
- The "Comunidad Revolucionaria Institucional": The Subversion of Native Government in Highland Chiapas, 1936-1968 // Jan Rus
- The Seduction of the Innocents: The First Tumultuous Moments of Mass Literacy in Postrevolutionary Mexico // Armando Bartra
- The Fate of the Vanguard under a Revolutionary State: Marxism's Contribution to the Construction of the Great Arch // Barry Carr
III. A Theoretical Reprise
- Hegemony and the Language of Contention // William Roseberry
- Everyday Forms of State Formation: Some Dissident Remarks on "Hegemony" // Derek Sayer
Bibliography
Index
Contributors