The making of post-national Mexico: intellectuals, NAFTA and national identity (1988-2000)

• Grant number: 17/10748-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2017
• End date: May 16, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of America
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: José Alves de Freitas Neto
• Grantee: José Antonio Ferreira da Silva Júnior
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/06155-0 - The making of post-national Mexico: intellectuals, NAFTA and national identity (1988-2000), BE.EP.DR

Abstract

In the year 2000, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) lost the first presidential election in Mexico since 1929. The rise of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) in this election broke long decades of political continuity that was associated in recent years with authoritarism, economic backwardness and an obstacle to democracy in the country. However, the defeat of the PRI in 2000 must be analyzed in the light of the economic, political, social, and cultural transformations that have taken place in Mexico since at least the 1980s. The Mexican intellectuals, literary or academic, allows us a different approach to this national political scene, since they used their innumerable places of enunciation to position themselves, analyze and comment on the transformations that were under way. Our goal here is to propose a research that investigates how discourses were produced and circulated in the period and became central to a discursive construction around the national identity as a project of political modernization and approach of a neoliberal model. The NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), signed in 1994, lead a production and circulation of notions, ideas and conceptions in cultural magazines that serve as a space for political action by Mexican intellectuals. Based on a methodology of political and intellectual history, this study proposes to map intellectual practices around the political discourse as well as to reflect on the role of these historical subjects in the Mexican national politics of the period. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SILVA JÚNIOR, José Antonio Ferreira da. The making of post-national Mexico: intellectuals, NAFTA and national identity (1982-2000). 2022. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.