This book provides a first-hand account of the author's encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume: decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban revolution, the cold war and student radicalism.

Addresses crucial issues of the 1960s and 1970s decolonization, the quest for democracy, styles of economic development, and issues of race, colour, class and culture Draws from the author's journals and letters, as well as interviews, during his research in Mexico and the Caribbean Includes research and notes on the author's experiences in Jamaica, Trinidad; Haiti, Guyana, Cuba, and Mexico, among other countries

Autorentext
Colin Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, UK.

Inhalt
1: Introduction: Mexico and the Caribbean.- 2: Mexico in 1966.- 3: The Caribbean in the Late 1960s.- 4: The Caribbean in the Early 1970s.- 5: Oaxaca, Mexico, and Barbuda in 1978.