Peasants and citizens : peasants resistance strategies to the modernization of West Chihuahua, Mexico

This thesis reconstructs the organizational actions and the fight that the Frente Democratico Campesino, Peasant’s Democratic Front the FDC have done since 1995 in the Western Region of Chihuahua, Mexico to resist the new neo-liberal agro-export phase of subordinating agriculture to capitalism as part of the globalization process in the context of the transition towards democracy in Mexico and the disorganizing effects of modernization. Analyzes the different fights of the FDC because of the different components of the productive process against commercial openings, the price of its products, fight against corruption and because of the democracy. Also, the teaching of the action and construction of the community that has been done, as well as its internal and external relationships. It concludes that the Fights, the economic and social organizational actions of the Peasant’s Democratic Front, be connected and unify with the ones of o! ther farming organizations have not achieved a connection of forces that allows them to change or stop the agri-food model imposed by the federal government in Mexico since 1983 even though they have influenced favorably in the democratization processes and the construction of counter powers at a local level, in the construction of community and social densification in its region of influence.

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Source https://theses.hal.science/tel-00947792
Author Quintana S., Victor M.
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 6, 2026, 08:53 (UTC)
Created May 6, 2026, 08:53 (UTC)
Identifier NNT: 2009PA030174
Language fr
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contributor CREDAL - Centre de recherche et de documentation de l'Amérique latine - UMR 7169 (CREDAL) ; Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Quintana S., Victor M.
date 2009-12-07T00:00:00
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