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Sin Maíz, No Hay País: Corn in Mexico under Neoliberalism, 1940-2008
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Caire, Matthew S.
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2010, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, History.
Abstract
In Mexican history, corn is far more than a culinary ingredient or farm product. Corn has been a cultural emblem and key component to the country’s national identity that throughout the twentieth-century the Mexican government embraced. However, since the adoption of neoliberal economic policies, which by necessity involves particular political policies, many Mexicans feel that corn’s significance in the country has changed. Over the last three decades public discontent with corn policies, which the public translates as anti-neoliberalism policies, has gradually grown. This thesis chronicles the growing discontent over corn policies and, more importantly, demonstrates how Mexican people have evolved to become agents for recentralizing corn in the country’s political, economic, and cultural discourses.
Committee
Amílcar Challú, PhD (Advisor)
Candace Archer, PhD (Committee Member)
Francisco Cabanillas, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
124 p.
Subject Headings
Latin American History
Keywords
Mexico
;
corn
;
nationalism
;
identity
;
tortillas
;
neoliberalism
;
tortilla prices.
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Caire, M. S. (2010).
Sin Maíz, No Hay País: Corn in Mexico under Neoliberalism, 1940-2008
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269232039
APA Style (7th edition)
Caire, Matthew.
Sin Maíz, No Hay País: Corn in Mexico under Neoliberalism, 1940-2008.
2010. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269232039.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Caire, Matthew. "Sin Maíz, No Hay País: Corn in Mexico under Neoliberalism, 1940-2008." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269232039
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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