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Cheleen Ann-Catherine Mahar - Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu and Urban Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico - 9780292728899 - V9780292728899
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Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu and Urban Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico

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Colonia Hermosa, now considered a suburb of Oaxaca, began as a squatter settlement in the 1950s. The original residents came in search of transformation from migrants to urban citizens, struggling from rural poverty for the chance to be part of the global economy in Oaxaca.

Cheleen Ann-Catherine Mahar charts the lives of a group of residents in Colonia Hermosa over a period of thirty years, as Mexico became more closely tied into the structures of global capital, and the residents of Colonia Hermosa struggled to survive. Residents shape their discussions within a larger narrative, and their talk is ... Read more

Mahar applies the theories of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to her data from Mexico in order to examine the class trajectories of migrant families over more than three decades. Through this investigation, Mahar adds an important intergenerational study to the existing body of literature on Oaxaca, particularly concerning the factors that have reshaped the lives of urban working poor families and have created a working-class fraction of globalized citizenship.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
195
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292728899
SKU
V9780292728899
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About Cheleen Ann-Catherine Mahar
Cheleen Mahar is Professor of Social Anthropology and Chair of International Studies at Pacific University of Oregon.

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