Everyday Forms of State Formation

“[A]n avatar of a new wave of political history of Mexico. . . . [T]he essays in this collection hang together well. . . . Editors Joseph and Nugent set the general tone for Everyday Forms of State Formation with their sophisticated discussion of popular culture as resistance to state-formation projects.” - Eric Van Young , Latin American Research Review

“Joseph and Nugent have constructed a new and original framework for understanding the formation of the Mexican state in relation to the complex social and political cultures that have supported or challenged it. This is a single, well-integrated volume. Its perspective will go a long way toward challenging conventional thinking about the modern Mexican state and the revolutions that engendered and accompanied it.” - Claude A. Comerleau, Hispanic American Historical Review

“What is most impressive about this volume is the way each author contributes so precisely to a larger scholarly enterprise which successfully weds theory with practice.” - , British Bulletin of Publications

"The essays in Everyday Forms of State Formation brilliantly shift the understanding of the Mexican Revolution to a new analytical framework that highlights the mediations between power and everyday forms of resistance and organization. Drawing on new theoretical approaches to the processes of hegemony, the authors go beyond analyses that posit either a reified oppressive state or a homogenized, often romanticized notion of ‘the people’ as heroic subjects of revolutionary change." - George Yúdice, Hunter College

"This book represents something eminently new and original. I believe it will have a great impact and draw Mexico and its evolution into the general discussion of state formation, popular culture and revolution from which it has been significantly absent for a long time." - Friedrich Katz, University of Chicago