TY  - BOOK
AU  - Estévez,Ariadna
TI  - Human rights and free trade in Mexico: a discursive and sociopolitical perspective 
SN  - 0230606555
AV  - JC599.M4 E88 2008
U1  - 323.0972 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Free trade
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-250) and index; Introduction: A Discursive and Sociopolitical Approach to Free Trade and Human Rights --; Part I: --; 1; The Neoliberal Paradox: Conservative Economic Change and the Rise of Democratic Politics --; 2; The Emergence of Human Rights Discourse in Mexico --; 3; The Exhaustion of Transition to Democracy Discourse: Human Rights Discourse Enters Anti-free Trade Struggles --; Part II: --; 4; Constructing Free Trade Worldviews with Human Rights Discourse --; 5; The Construction of Identities and Specific Agendas with Human Rights Discourse --; 6; Articulating Anti-free Trade Struggles with Human Rights Discourse --; Conclusions
N2  - "This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade under the banners of state duty and law enforcement with their underlying principles of equality and human dignity. Special emphasis is placed on how subjectivities influence identification with certain values and legal or political strategies. Furthermore, by focusing on the understanding of human rights by social agents the book also shows that specific human rights have more political potential for certain types of subjects in the struggle against free trade than others, such as the right to development, the rights of women and the right to food. This analysis is conducted with a specifically Latin American theorization of human rights that challenges both Eurocentric scholarly works on the issue and the arguments of European activists directed at the allegedly Western authorship of human rights discourses."--Publisher's website
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007047140-b.html
ER  -