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Overview
Caciquismo (roughly translated as "boss politics") has played a major role in Mexican political and social life. Loosely knit interest groups, or "caciques," of diverse character —syndicates, farmers, left- and right-wingers, white-collar workers —have exercised great power within Mexico's distinctive political system.
The peculiarities of Mexico's system have greatly depended on this kind of informal politics, which combines repression, patronage, and charismatic leadership. As such, caciquismo fits uncomfortably within the formal analysis of laws, parties, and elections and has been relatively neglected by academics. Though its demise has often been predicted, it has survived, evolved, and adjusted to Mexico's rapid post-revolutionary transformation.
Incorporating the research of historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, this book reevaluates the crucial role of the cacique in modern Mexico. It suggests that caciquismo has survived decades of change and upheaval and remains an important, if underestimated, feature of recent Mexican politics.
Contributors include Christopher Boyer (University of Illinois at Chicago), Keith Brewster (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Matthew Butler (Queen's University, Belfast), Marco Calderón (El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico), Maria Teresa Fernández Aceves (Centro de Investigaciones en Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social [CIESAS], Mexico), Rogelio Hernández Rodríuez (El Colegio de México), Stephen Lewis (California State University, Chico), Salvador Maldonado Aranda (El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico), Jennie Purnell (Boston College), Jan Rus (Tzotzil Instituto de Asesoría Antropológica para la Región Maya, and Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego), Pieter de Vries (Wageningen University), and J. Eduardo Zárate H (El Colegio de México, Michoacán).
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Alan Knight is a professor of Latin American history at the Latin American Centre, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. Wil Pansters is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
INTRODUCTION
1. Caciquismo in Twentieth-century Mexico--by Alan Knight
PART I: REVOLUTION AND ITS AFTERMATH
2. The Chegomista Rebellion in Juchitan, 1911-1912: Rethinking the Role of Traditional Caciques in Resisting State Power--by Jennie Purnell
3. Naranja Revisited: Agrarian Caciques and the Making of Campesino Identity in Postrevolutionary Michocan--by Christopher R. Boyer
4. God's Caciques: Caciquismo and the Cristero Revolt in Coalcoman--by Matthew Butler
5. Caciquismo in the Sierra Norte de Puebla: the Case of Gabriel Barrios Cabrera--by Keith Brewster
PART II: FROM REVOLUTION TO PAX PRIISTA
6. Caciquismo and Cardenismo in the Sierra P'urhepecha, Michocan--by Marco Antonion Calderon
7. Dead-end Caudillismo and Entreprenurial Caciquismo in Chiapas, 1910-1955--by Stephen E. Lewis
8. The Struggle against Indigenous Caciques in Highland Chiapas: Dissent, Religion and Exile in Chamula, 1965-1977--by Jan Rus
9. En-gendering Caciquismo: Guadalupe Martinez, Heliodoro Hernancez Loza and the Politics of Organized Labour in Jalisco--by Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves
PART III: THE NEW FACES OF CACIQUISMO
10. Between Law and Arbitrariness: Labour Union Caciques in Mexico--by Salvador Maldonado Aranda
11. Challenging Caciquismo. An Analysis of the Leadership of Carlos Hank Gonzalez--by Rogelio Hernandez Rodriguez
12. Caciques and Leaders in the Era of Democracy--by Jose Eduardo Zarate Hernandez
13. Building a Cacicazgo in a Neoloberal University--by Wil Pansters
14. The Performance and Imagination of the Cacique: Some Ethnographic Reflections from Western Mexico--by Pieter de Vries
PART V: CONCLUSIONS
15. Goodbye to the Caciques? Definition, the State and the Dynamics of Caciquismo in Twentieth-century Mexico--by Wil Pansters
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Index