Studies of the Americas: A Journal of Decolonization, State Formation and Democratization

Clarke, Colin

This book provides a first-hand account of the author’s encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume: decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban revolution, the cold war and student radicalism.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-07-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319771694

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77170-0

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 261