Year: 1990
Type: paratext
Abstract: The genesis of our research project came long before we started the collaborative effort that led to this book.The project has its roots in a series of field studies and analyses of the evolution of agricultural production in Mexico and Central America.In addition, we have been stimulated by the work of many other scholars in diverse fields.For a long time, David Barkin has been advocating the need to examine the impact on people's lives of national integration into the world economy.His analysis is an extension of the seminal work by Steven Hymer (in the United States) and Christian Palloix (in France) that obliged many people to reexamine the dynamics of the international economy.In the early 1970s it was still too soon for most people in Mexico to recognize the powerful influence that the actors in the world market were exerting on policymaking and the decisions of individual producers.Some people were beginning to become aware of the way in which this process was affecting consumption patterns and even life-styles; but the shrill analyses of the moment were dismissed by the orthodox as simplistic Marxism, while the burgeoning middle classes anxiously struggled to embrace the many forms of "coca-colonialism," as the process was dubbed in the literature.Barkin's work in this area has been a result of joint research projects sponsored by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco Campus (UAM-X), and the Ecodevelopment Center (CECODES), a multidisciplinary organization created under the aegis of Mexico's National Science and Technology Council (CONACYT).These studies documented the ways in which ix
Source: Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4385530293