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On Mexico, class, and sexuality.    We welcome anthropologist Roger Lancaster onto the pod to talk about his new book, The Struggle to Be Gay – in Mexico, for Example.     We discuss:

• How much is being gay tied to being modern? And conversely, how much of globalized culture is itself "gay"?

• Do you need to be middle class to be gay?

• Why did neoliberalism provide more sexual freedom than corporatism in Mexico? 

• How was Mexico ahead of the US in introducing ‘progressive neoliberalism’?

• Is now a time of freedom, or should we think of it differently?

In part two, we discuss AMLO's "synthetic" presidency, and the way peasant conservatism in central America has traditionally provided a boost to radicalism – and ask whether this is still the case.   Only available at patreon.com/bungacast.   See also: /180/ Bunga Bunga (but Gay) ft. Mark Simpson & River Page