Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements
"Treats a very important theme in an excellent analytical framework and addresses the right topics from an insightful perspective. The individual chapters are outstanding because the editor has selected first-rate scholars and inspired them to reflect and build upon previous fine work. Particularly impressive is the ability of the editor and authors to unravel extremely complex, and sometimes murky, issues and events. No other collection brings together such splendid contributions on this topic."--Paul Drake, University of California, San Diego"A superb, focused collection of essays from many of the most perceptive analysts of Latin American politics, one that deftly avoids both structural reductionism on the one hand and historicism on the other. A contribution to Latin American politics and to theories of protest and resistance."--James Scott, Yale University"Eckstein has put together an outstanding collection of work by some of the best Latin Americanists. Taken together, here are a series of studies which are remarkably sensitive to the complex circumstances which pattern protest movements, and to the manifold ways in which protest comes to be expressed."--Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate School and University Center