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Revolución y Estado en el México moderno / Revolution and State in Modern Mexico

by Adam David Morton on May 1, 2017

Revolución y Estado en el México moderno / Revolution and State in Modern Mexico

Adam David Morton | May 1, 2017

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Mi libro Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development se publica ahora en español con Siglo XXI.

Revolución y Estado en México moderno 

“Este innovador estudio desarrolla un nuevo enfoque para entender la formación del Estado posrevolucionario en México. Apartándose de las interpretaciones dominantes, Adam Morton analiza la construcción de la revolución y del Estado mexicano a través de un nuevo enfoque de la Revolución mexicana, la era de la industrialización por sustitución de importaciones y el neoliberalismo. A lo largo del libro, el autor establece vínculos interdisciplinarios entre la geografía, la economía política, y los estudios latinoamericanos y del poscolonialismo a fin de proporcionar un nuevo marco para el análisis del desarrollo del poder estatal en México. También explora procesos clave en la impugnación del Estado moderno, específicamente a través de estudios sobre el papel de los intelectuales, la democratización, la transición democrática, y los espacios de resistencia. Como argumenta Morton, todos estos temas solo pueden entenderse plenamente a través del lente del desarrollo desigual en América Latina.

Fundamentalmente, el libro muestra cómo la historia de la formación del Estado moderno y el desarrollo desigual en México se entiende mejor como una forma de revolución pasiva, refiriéndose a las estrategias de clase en curso que han moldeado las relaciones entre el Estado y la sociedad civil. De este modo, Morton hace una importante contribución interdisciplinaria a los debates sobre la formación del Estado pertinentes a los estudios mexicanos, a los estudios poscoloniales y del desarrollo, a la sociología histórica y la economía política internacional revitalizando el debate sobre el carácter desigual y combinado del desarrollo en México y en toda América Latina. Al hacerlo, afirma de manera convincente que el desarrollo desigual puede volver a ser una herramienta para el análisis de la economía política radical dentro y fuera de la región”.

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Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development

“This groundbreaking study develops a new approach to understanding the formation of the post-revolutionary state in Mexico. In a shift away from dominant interpretations, Adam Morton considers the construction of the revolution and the modern Mexican state through a fresh analysis of the Mexican Revolution, the era of import substitution industrialization, and neoliberalism. Throughout, the author makes interdisciplinary links among geography, political economy, postcolonialism, and Latin American studies in order to provide a new framework for analyzing the development of state power in Mexico. He also explores key processes in the contestation of the modern state, specifically through studies of the role of intellectuals, democratization and democratic transition, and spaces of resistance. As Morton argues, all these themes can only be fully understood through the lens of uneven development in Latin America.

Centrally, the book shows how the history of modern state formation and uneven development in Mexico is best understood as a form of passive revolution, referring to the ongoing class strategies that have shaped relations between state and civil society. As such, Morton makes an important interdisciplinary contribution to debates on state formation relevant to Mexican studies, postcolonial and development studies, historical sociology, and international political economy by revitalizing the debate on the uneven and combined character of development in Mexico and throughout Latin America. In so doing, he convincingly contends that uneven development can once again become a tool for radical political economy analysis in and beyond the region.”

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Author: Adam David Morton

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007); Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); and co-author of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (2018) with Andreas Bieler. The volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography is out in 2022 with University of Minnesota Press, co-edited with Stuart Elden.

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