Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Historical Analysis of Mexican Popular Contention in the Age of Globalization

本博士论文研究的目的是研究经济和政治自由化如何改变了墨西哥民众抗议活动的主要参与者、目标、目标和形式，以及是什么条件使一些抗议活动成为跨国的，另一些是全国性的，还有一些是地方性的。我们假设，当行动者(1)被嵌入到超越其所在地区的活动家和组织的持续网络中，(2)产生可以多种方式解释的目标，(3)创新一种新的行动形式，那么民众抗议就能够利用全球化进程开辟的新的全球政治舞台，从而有效地吸引超越其国家领土的多种受众。该项目通过对1960年至今墨西哥抗议事件的系统历史分析来检验这一论点。路透社、Excelsior、Uno mas Uno、La Jornada、El Imparcial、El Imparcial de Oaxaca等媒体报道的抗议事件将被收集并使用语言方法进行编码，并对编码数据进行社会网络分析。这项研究使我们能够考虑全球市场、国家和公民之间的新关系。

The objective of this doctoral dissertation research is to examine how economic and political liberalization have transformed the principal actors, targets, goals, and forms of popular protests in Mexico, and what conditions have made some protests become transnational, others national, and others remain local. We hypothesize that when actors (1) are embedded in sustained networks of activists and organizations beyond their locality, (2) generate goals that are interpretable in multiple ways, and (3) innovate a new form of action, then popular protests are able to exploit a new global arena of politics opened by the processes of globalization and, thus, make an effective appeal to multiple audiences beyond their national territory. The project examines this argument through systematic historical analysis of protest events in Mexico from 1960 to the present. Protest events reported in Reuters, Excelsior, Uno mas Uno, La Jornada, El Imparcial, and El Imparcial de Oaxaca will be gathered and coded by using a linguistic approach, and social network analysis will be applied to the coded data. This research permits us to consider new relations among global market, state, and citizens.