Human rights and free trade in Mexico : a discursive and sociopolitical perspective

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    • Estévez, Ariadna

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Human rights and free trade in Mexico : a discursive and sociopolitical perspective

Ariadna Estévez

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-250) and index

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This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estevez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.

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Introduction: A Discursive and Sociopolitical Approach to Free Trade and Human Rights The Neoliberal Paradox: Conservative Economic Change and the Rise of Democratic Politics The Emergence of Human Rights Discourse in Mexico The Exhaustion of Transition to Democracy Discourse: Human Rights Discourse Enters Anti-Free Trade Struggles Constructing Free Trade Worldviews with Human Rights Discourse The Construction of Identities and Specific Agendas with Human Rights Discourse Articulating Anti-Free Trade Struggles with Human Rights Discourse Conclusions

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