Human Rights and Free Trade in Mexico

A Discursive and Sociopolitical Perspective
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-60655-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Estévez, Ariadna

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Discursive and Sociopolitical Approach to Free Trade and Human Rights The Neoliberal Paradox: Conservative Economic Change and the Rise of Democratic Politics The Emergence of Human Rights Discourse in Mexico The Exhaustion of Transition to Democracy Discourse: Human Rights Discourse Enters Anti-Free Trade Struggles Constructing Free Trade Worldviews with Human Rights Discourse The Construction of Identities and Specific Agendas with Human Rights Discourse Articulating Anti-Free Trade Struggles with Human Rights Discourse Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

ARIADNA ESTÉVEZ is a Researcher at the Centre for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico (CISAN-UNAM).