Squatters and the Politics of Marginality in Uruguay [electronic resource] /
Álvarez-Rivadulla, María José.author.
This book unveils the political economy of land squatting in a third world city, Montevideo, in Uruguay. It focuses on the effects of democratization on the mobilization of the poorest as well as on the role played by different types of brokers, from radical Catholic priests to local leaders embedded in political networks. Through a multi-method endeavour that combines ethnography, historical sources, and quantitative time series, the author reconstructs the history of the informal city since the late 1940s to the present. From a social movements/contentious politics perspective, the book challenges the assumption that socioeconomic factors such as poverty were the only causes triggering land squatting. .
1.Introduction  -- 2. The Case of Montevideo  -- 3. The Cycle of Land Invasions .-4. Accretion Invasions: A Story of an Unlikely Contention (1979-1990)  -- 5. Planned Squatting and Politics  -- 6. Politics on the Ground  -- 7. Conclusion.
This book unveils the political economy of land squatting in a third world city, Montevideo, in Uruguay. It focuses on the effects of democratization on the mobilization of the poorest as well as on the role played by different types of brokers, from radical Catholic priests to local leaders embedded in political networks. Through a multi-method endeavour that combines ethnography, historical sources, and quantitative time series, the author reconstructs the history of the informal city since the late 1940s to the present. From a social movements/contentious politics perspective, the book challenges the assumption that socioeconomic factors such as poverty were the only causes triggering land squatting. .
Latin America—Politics and government.
Political economy.
Economic development.
Social change.
Sociology, Urban.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Elections.
Latin American Politics.
International Political Economy.
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Urban Studies/Sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Electoral Politics.