Revista Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local, No. 12 - Março 2006, 165-176 pp.¿Are the metropolis governable? New social paradigm and the "social fights" for the public services in Mexico as a redefinition of the political space.
Felipe de Alba
Abstract
During the last few decades, a new polarization of the world system appears. This polarization prevailed less and less by the State before conceived as the main space of the economic regulation. In consequence the metropolisation and the sprouting of megalopolis on planetary scale appeared. In this article we discussed the governability of the public services in Mexico by analyzing the new paradigm of the social fights as one of the results and effects of the globalization which accumulate new tensions and inequalities into its social and political space.
Keywords: metropolisation, Mexico City, global process, social paradigm, social struggles, public services. political territory,
