Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico

by Wise,Timothy

• ISBN13: 9781565491632
• ISBN10: 1565491637
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-02-28
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Summary

* Illustrates how Mexican communities cope with NAFTA's effects * Written by a team of US and Mexican collaborators * Shows importance of trade regulations on poor communities worldwide How is the current model for economic globalization affecting both the poor and the environment? Confronting Globalizationextends a sweeping treatment of contemporary Mexican politics as they investigate the country's tumultuous experience under the North American Free Trade Agreement. The contributors relate globalization's untold stories: its social and environmental costs, and the grassroots quest for alternative paths. They reveal to us how vulnerable people in rural communities are choosing to defend themselves and promote their own homegrown alternatives in the face of adversity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Foreword	ix
Map	xiii
1 Introduction: Globalization and Popular Resistance in Mexico	1	(16)
Timothy A. Wise, Hilda Salazar, and Laura Carlsen
Part 1 Integration, Investment, and the Environment
2 Investment, Sovereignty, and the Environment: The Metalclad and NAFTA's Chapter 11	17	(26)
Fernando Bejarano González
3 Human Rights, Ecology, and Economic Integration: The Peasant Ecologists of Guerrero	43	(22)
Enrique Cienfuegos and Laura Carlsen
4 El Balcón, Guerrero: A Case Study of Globalization Benefiting a Forest Community	65	(16)
David Barton Bray and Leticia Merino
5 Biopiracy on the Border: The Battle for the Yellow Bean	81	(20)
Laura Carlsen
6 Biopiracy, Bioprospecting, and Resistance: Four Cases in Mexico	101	(28)
Andrés Barreda
Part 2 The Crisis in the Countryside: Small Producers Fight Back
7 Toward an Equitable, Inclusive, and Sustainable Agriculture: Mexico's Basic Grains Producers Unite	129	(20)
Olivia Acuña Rodarte
8 Peasant Farmers in the Global Economy: The State Coalition of Coffee Producers of Oaxaca	149	(24)
Josefina Aranda Bezaury
Part 3 Employment Under Free Trade: Exploitation and Expulsion
9 The Struggle for Justice in the Maquiladoras: The Experience of the Autotrim Workers	173	(22)
Pastoral Juvenil Obrera
10 The Migrant Club El Remolino: A Binational Community Experience	195	(18)
Miguel Moctezuma Longoria
Part 4 Conclusion
11 Lessons Learned: Civil Society Strategies in the Face of Economic Integration	213	(22)
Timothy A. Wise, Hilda Salazar, and Laura Carlsen
About the Contributors	235	(4)
Index	239