Rethinking Latin American social movements
Subtitle: radical action from below
By: edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Marc Becker
Series: Latin American perspectives in the classroom; Latin American perspectives in the classroom
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781442235687; 9781442235670
Subjects: Social movements
Description: "This text explores the dramatic evolution in Latin American social movements over the past fifteen years. Leading scholars examine a variety of cases that highlight significant shifts in the region. First is the breakdown of the Washington Consensus and the global economic crisis since 2008, accompanied by the rise of new paradigms such as buen vivir (living well). Second are transformations in internal movement dynamics and strategies, especially the growth of horizontalism (horizontalidad), which emphasizes non-hierarchical relations within society rather than directly tackling state power. Third are new dynamics of resistance and repression as movements interact with the "pink tide" rise of left-of-center governments in the region. Exploring outcomes and future directions, the contributors consider the variations between movements arising from immediate circumstances (such as Oaxaca's 2006 uprising and Brazil's 2013 bus fare protests) and longer-lasting movements (Vía Campesina, Brazil's MST, and Mexico's Zapatistas)." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : New directions in Latin American social movements / Richard Stahler-Stolk, Harry E. Vanden, and Marc Becker; title: Latin America : reinventing revolutions, an "other" politics in practice and theory / Sara C. Motta; title: Mexico : challenges and difficulties of urban territories in resistance / Raúl Zibechi; title: Mexico : political cultures, youth activism, and the legacy of the Oaxacan social movement of 2006 / Maurice Rafael Magaña; title: Brazil : praxis of empowerment : mística and mobilization in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) / Daniela Issa; title: Central America/Mexico : network politics in the movement against the Plan Puebla-Panamá / Alicia Swords; title: Honduras : refounding the nation, building a new kind of social movement / Suyapa Portillo Villeda; title: Brazil : popular feminism and its roots and alliances / Nathalie Lebon; title: Brazil : the contradictions of Black cultural politics in Salvador da Bahia / Kwame Dixon; title: Mexico : autonomy, collective identity, and the Zapatista social movement / Richard Stahler-Sholk; title: Argentina : against and beyond the state / Marina Sitrin; title: Brazil : taking the streets, swarming public spaces : the 2013 popular protests / Harry E. Vanden; title: Venezuela : Bolivarianism and the commune / George Ciccariello-Maher; title: Ecuador : Correa, indigenous movements, and the writing of a new constitution / Marc Becker; title: Bolivia : MAS and the movements that brought it to state power / Leonidas Oikonomakis and Fran Espinoza; title: El Salvador : horizontalism and the anti-mining movement / Rose J. Spalding; title: Latin America : horizontal dialogue, agroecology, and CLOC/Via Campesina / María Elena Martínez-Torres and Peter M. Rosset; title: Conclusion : Changing contexts and movement strategies / Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Marc Becker.