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Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century: Resistance, Power and Democracy

by: Stahler-sholk, Richard; Vanden, Harry E.; Kuecker, Glen David

Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century: Resistance, Power and Democracy

by: Stahler-sholk, Richard; Vanden, Harry E.; Kuecker, Glen David

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9780742556478
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Copyright: 03/30/2008
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

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This clearly written and comprehensive text examines the uprising of politically and economically marginalized groups in Latin American societies. Part introductions help students contextualize the essays, highlighting social movement origins, strategies, and outcomes. Thematic sections address historical context, political economy, community-building and consciousness, ethnicity and race, gender, movement strategies, and transnational organizing, making this book useful to anyone studying the wide range of social movements in Latin America. Book jacket.

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Historical Continuities and New Trends	p. 17
Power and Social Movements in the Other Occident: Latin America in an International Context	p. 21
Social Movements, Hegemony, and New Forms of Resistance	p. 39
Neoliberal Globalization and Democracy Lite: The Changing Political/Economic Context of Social Movements	p. 57
Mexican Popular Movements, Clientelism, and the Process of Democratization	p. 61
Struggles against Accumulation by Dispossession in Bolivia: The Political Economy of Natural Resource Contention	p. 77
Community-Building Strategies, Consciousness, and Agents of Social Change	p. 93
Fighting for the Forests Revisited: Grassroots Resistance to Mining in Northern Ecuador	p. 97
Resisting Neoliberal Homogenization: The Zapatista Autonomy Movement	p. 113
Praxis of Empowerment: Mistica and Mobilization in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement	p. 131
Ethnicity and Race in Social and Political Movements	p. 147
Zapatista Anti-Capitalist Politics and the "Other Campaign": Learning from the Struggle for Indigenous Rights and Autonomy	p. 151
Pachakutik and Indigenous Political Party Politics in Ecuador	p. 165
Transnational Black Social Movements in Latin America: Afro-Colombians and the Struggle for Human Rights	p. 181
Politics Is Uma Coisinha de Mulher (a Woman's Thing): Black Women's Leadership in Neighborhood Movements in Brazil	p. 197
Gender and Women's Movements	p. 213
Recasting "Popular" Movements: Gender and Political Learning in Neighborhood Organizations in Chile	p. 217
Casa Amiga: Feminist Community-Building in Ciudad Juarez as an Alternative to the Structural Violence of Globalization	p. 233
Repertoires and Sites of Contention: Parties, Shop Floors, and Streets	p. 249
Neoliberalism, Corruption, and Legacies of Contention: Argentina's Social Movements, 1993-2006	p. 253
New Social Movements with Old Party Politics: The MTL Piqueteros and the Communist Party in Argentina	p. 271
Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements	p. 287
Neo-Zapatista Network Politics: Transforming Democracy and Development	p. 291
La Via Campesina: Transnationalizing Peasant Struggle and Hope	p. 307
Neoliberal Regionalism and Resistance in Mesoamerica: Foro Mesoamericano Opposition to Plan Puebla-Panama and CAFTA	p. 323
Challenges Ahead for Latin America's Social Movements	p. 337
References	p. 343
Index	p. 377
About the Contributors	p. 393
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Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century: Resistance, Power and Democracy

Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century: Resistance, Power and Democracy

9780742556478

0742556476

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