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The Resource Latin American social movements in the twenty-first century : resistance, power, and democracy, edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen David Kuecker

Latin American social movements in the twenty-first century : resistance, power, and democracy, edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen David Kuecker

Label
Latin American social movements in the twenty-first century : resistance, power, and democracy
Title
Latin American social movements in the twenty-first century
Title remainder
resistance, power, and democracy
Statement of responsibility
edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen David Kuecker
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
This clearly written and comprehensive text examines the uprising of politically and economically marginalized groups in Latin American societies. Specialists in a broad range of disciplines present original research from a variety of case studies in a student-friendly format. Section 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
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Cataloging source
DLC
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Stahler-Sholk, Richard
  • Kuecker, Glen David
  • Vanden, Harry E
Series statement
Latin American perspectives in the classroom
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
Social movements
Label
Latin American social movements in the twenty-first century : resistance, power, and democracy, edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen David Kuecker
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-376) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Struggles against accumulation by dispossession in Bolivia : the political economy of natural resource contention
  • Susan Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber
  • Fighting for the forests revisited : grassroots resistance to mining in northern Ecuador
  • Glen David Kuecker
  • Resisting neoliberal homogenization : the Zapatista autonomy movement
  • Richard Stahler-Sholk
  • Praxis of empowerment : mística and mobilization in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement
  • Daniela Issa
  • Zapatista anti-capitalist politics and the "other campaign" : learning from the struggle for indigenous rights and autonomy
  • Mariana Mora
  • Introduction
  • Pachakutik and indigenous political party politics in Ecuador
  • Marc Becker
  • Transnational Black social movements in Latin America : Afro-Colombians and the struggle for human rights
  • Kwame Dixon
  • Politics is uma coisinha de mulher (a woman's thing) : Black women's leadership in neighborhood movements in Brazil
  • Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
  • Recasting "popular" movements : gender and political learning in neighborhood organizations in Chile
  • Verónica Schild
  • Casa Amiga : feminist community-building in Ciudad Juárez as an alternative to the structural violence of globalization
  • Joanna Swanger
  • Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen Kuecker
  • Neoliberalism, corruption, and legacies of contention : Argentina's social movements, 1993-2006
  • Roberta Villalón
  • New social movements with old party politics : the MTL piqueteros and the Communist Party in Argentina
  • Isabella Alcañiz and Melissa Scheier
  • Neo-Zapatista network politics : transforming democracy and development
  • Alicia C.S. Swords
  • La Vía Campesina : transnationalizing peasant struggle and hope
  • María Elena Martínez-Torres and Peter M. Rosset
  • Neoliberal regionalism and resistance in Mesoamerica : Foro Mesoamericano opposition to Plan Puebla-Panamá and CAFTA
  • Rose J. Spalding
  • Power and social movements in the other Occident : Latin America in an international context
  • Challenges ahead for Latin America's social movements
  • Glen David Kuecker, Richard Stahler-Sholk, and Harry E. Vanden
  • David Slater
  • Social movements, hegemony, and new forms of resistance
  • Harry E. Vanden
  • Mexican popular movements, clientelism, and the process of democratization
  • Judith Adler Hellman
Control code
180190769
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
x, 394 pages
Isbn
9780742556478
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2007043056
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
Latin American social movements in the twenty-first century : resistance, power, and democracy, edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen David Kuecker
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-376) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Struggles against accumulation by dispossession in Bolivia : the political economy of natural resource contention
  • Susan Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber
  • Fighting for the forests revisited : grassroots resistance to mining in northern Ecuador
  • Glen David Kuecker
  • Resisting neoliberal homogenization : the Zapatista autonomy movement
  • Richard Stahler-Sholk
  • Praxis of empowerment : mística and mobilization in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement
  • Daniela Issa
  • Zapatista anti-capitalist politics and the "other campaign" : learning from the struggle for indigenous rights and autonomy
  • Mariana Mora
  • Introduction
  • Pachakutik and indigenous political party politics in Ecuador
  • Marc Becker
  • Transnational Black social movements in Latin America : Afro-Colombians and the struggle for human rights
  • Kwame Dixon
  • Politics is uma coisinha de mulher (a woman's thing) : Black women's leadership in neighborhood movements in Brazil
  • Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
  • Recasting "popular" movements : gender and political learning in neighborhood organizations in Chile
  • Verónica Schild
  • Casa Amiga : feminist community-building in Ciudad Juárez as an alternative to the structural violence of globalization
  • Joanna Swanger
  • Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen Kuecker
  • Neoliberalism, corruption, and legacies of contention : Argentina's social movements, 1993-2006
  • Roberta Villalón
  • New social movements with old party politics : the MTL piqueteros and the Communist Party in Argentina
  • Isabella Alcañiz and Melissa Scheier
  • Neo-Zapatista network politics : transforming democracy and development
  • Alicia C.S. Swords
  • La Vía Campesina : transnationalizing peasant struggle and hope
  • María Elena Martínez-Torres and Peter M. Rosset
  • Neoliberal regionalism and resistance in Mesoamerica : Foro Mesoamericano opposition to Plan Puebla-Panamá and CAFTA
  • Rose J. Spalding
  • Power and social movements in the other Occident : Latin America in an international context
  • Challenges ahead for Latin America's social movements
  • Glen David Kuecker, Richard Stahler-Sholk, and Harry E. Vanden
  • David Slater
  • Social movements, hegemony, and new forms of resistance
  • Harry E. Vanden
  • Mexican popular movements, clientelism, and the process of democratization
  • Judith Adler Hellman
Control code
180190769
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
x, 394 pages
Isbn
9780742556478
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2007043056
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations

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