Neoliberal Resource Nationalism: The Scramble for Mexico's Oil and Minerals- [electronic resource]
Neoliberal Resource Nationalism: The Scramble for Mexico's Oil and Minerals- [electronic resource]
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- 학위논문파일 국외
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- 20240214095840
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- 9798379956011
- DDC
- 301
- 서명/저자
- Neoliberal Resource Nationalism: The Scramble for Mexicos Oil and Minerals - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : The University of Wisconsin - Madison., 2021
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2021
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(212 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Collins, Jane L.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2021.
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- 초록/해제
- 요약Hydrocarbon extraction and mining have priority over any other land use in Mexico according to the law. Oil is a major source of government revenue and mining concessions lasting up to a century cover roughly 10% of the national territory as of 2021. Despite the privileged role of both of these industries, their regulation followed notably different trajectories throughout Mexico's neoliberal period (1982-2018). Non-petroleum mineral extraction was fully privatized beginning in the late 1980s, while the hydrocarbon sector escaped Mexico's early privatization wave. This changed in 2013, when the Constitution was modified and energy reform allowed private sector participation at levels not seen since before the 1938 oil nationalization. Still, the state oil company Pemex continues to operate and is being revitalized by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO) administration. This dissertation traces and compares the evolving role of the state and the private sector in two economic sectors - energy and minerals - throughout Mexico's neoliberal era (1982-2018). Studying variation in policies regulating Mexico's subsoil resources offers an opportunity to understand within-nation complexity in neoliberal policy enactment. The overarching questions are two: (1) When and why is resource nationalism mobilized by state actors and policymakers in the context of neoliberalization? (2) How can we explain defiance of neoliberal principles in Mexico's energy sector by political parties that enthusiastically enacted other neoliberal policies? The first two chapters focus solely on oil, whereas the third chapter addresses the divergent trajectory of minerals as compared to hydrocarbons in the longue duree. The epilogue briefly discusses some of the reforms introduced by AMLO and expands the analysis beyond Mexico with a comparison between Mexican extractivism and extractivism in South American countries. Theoretically, this study contributes to three overlapping debates: (1) the dynamics of (neo)extractivism in Latin America; (2) the role of resource nationalism in the context of neoliberalization; and (3) paradigm shifts and the variegated implementation of neoliberal policies. The analysis prioritizes a historical perspective that combines political economy and attention to cultural politics. I argue that the contrasting policies of the Mexican state vis-a-vis oil and mining can be attributed to their variable fiscal importance over time, their place in the construction of state- sponsored resource nationalism, their importance for the sustenance of the corporatist machine built by the PRI (Party of the Institutionalized Revolution), and to differences in their materiality. More broadly, I suggest that paying attention to the state's fiscal interests, nationalism, and the meaning with which particular economic sectors are imbued, can add explanatory leverage to our understanding of neoliberalism's variegated implementation. Altogether, the dissertation draws attention to the factors that help us understand how and why neoliberal privatization operated differently across time and sector and explains what the implications are for the relative power of domestic vs. transnational capital in extractive sectors, the fiscal interests of the state, and land use priorities.
- 일반주제명
- Sociology.
- 일반주제명
- History.
- 일반주제명
- Latin American studies.
- 일반주제명
- Mining.
- 키워드
- Extractivism
- 키워드
- Mexico
- 키워드
- Neoliberalism
- 키워드
- Oil
- 키워드
- Pemex
- 기타저자
- The University of Wisconsin - Madison Sociology - LS
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-02B.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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