Monstrous politics : geography, rights, and the urban revolution in Mexico City /

"Tracing the evolving relationship between popular politics and the production of space through a fusion of historical geography and ethnography in Mexico City"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gerlofs, Ben A., 1985-
Published: Vanderbilt University Press,
Publisher Address: Nashville, Tennessee :
Publication Dates: [2023]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Critical Mexican studies
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Summary: "Tracing the evolving relationship between popular politics and the production of space through a fusion of historical geography and ethnography in Mexico City"--
Carrier Form: xiv, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-250) and index.
ISBN: 9780826504777
0826504779
Index Number: G141
CLC: K901.9
Call Number: K901.9/G371
Contents: Introduction -- Part 1. A Century of Monsters, Machines, and Megaurbanization -- Crisis, Conflict, and Cárdenista Revolution -- Part 2. Dreaming Dialectically: The Death and Life of the Right to the City in Mexico City -- Así No (Not Like This): Resisting Postpolitics on Avenida Chapultepec -- The Redemptive (Urban) Revolution: Political Reform and the Rebirth of the Capital City-State -- Conclusion.