Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
Publication Title
Culture and Agriculture
Volume
18
Abstract
Neoliberalism has provoked profound and diverse consequences for rural Mexico, escalating the agricultural crisis for producers and workers in various sectors. Against this context, recent improvements in the sugar sector raise interesting questions about its relative economic success under the neoliberal paradigm. This article contrasts two cane zones--one that experienced economic recovery and another affected by abandonment of the sugar mill--to argue that in the interstices of modernizing neoliberalism, cane growers and mill workers who were subjected to politics of exclusion struggle to ensure the survival of their culture, community, and economic livelihood.
Issue
3
First Page
98
Last Page
109
ISSN
1556-486X
Recommended Citation
Chollett, Donna, "Culture, Ideology, and Community: The Dynamics of Accommodation and Resistance to Restructuring of the Mexican Sugar Sector" (1996). Anthropology Publications. 5.
https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/anthropology/5
Primo Type
Article
Included in
Agricultural and Resource Economics Commons, Labor Economics Commons, Latin American Studies Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons
Comments
This is an accepted manuscript version of an article published in Culture and Agriculture . Full citation of the final, published version is: Chollett, Donna. 1996. Culture, Ideology, and Community: The Dynamics of Accommodation and Resistance to Transformations in the Mexican Sugar Sector. Culture and Agriculture, Peter Singelmann, Ed. 18(3):98-109.