
Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America
University of New Mexico Press
Published on 1. April 2024
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-8263-6568-2 (ISBN)
Description
The arrival of democracy and globalization was a watershed moment for Latin America. It produced a changing political and economic environment, where democracy provided challengers with expanding political opportunities but globalization precipitated economic threats to livelihoods and human welfare. This changing environment removed the state from modes of political representation, such as urban labor movements and their affiliated mass-party organizations, while unleashing more pluralistic, heterogenous, and decentralized patterns of popular representation. Reducing its role in production, the state became mostly a regulator of economic activities.
Arce and Wada's volume examines the consequences of democracy and globalization on popular protests in Latin America, theorizing a broad shift of popular politics involving reactive and proactive mobilizations. A collaboration of sixteen distinguished scholars with different specializations (economists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists) in both the Global North and South, the volume provides a unique collection of studies of protest events in ten Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.
Arce and Wada's volume examines the consequences of democracy and globalization on popular protests in Latin America, theorizing a broad shift of popular politics involving reactive and proactive mobilizations. A collaboration of sixteen distinguished scholars with different specializations (economists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists) in both the Global North and South, the volume provides a unique collection of studies of protest events in ten Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.
Reviews / Votes
"A must-read for scholars of Latin America, social movements, and protest and for anyone interested in understanding how democracy and globalization have affected popular movements in Latin America."-Carew Boulding, author of NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil SocietyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 maps, 70 graphs, 10 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-6568-2 (9780826365682)
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Persons
MoisA (c)s Arce is the Scott and Marjorie Cowen Chair in Latin American Social Sciences and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University. Takeshi Wada is a professor in the Department of Area Studies and the director of the Latin American and Iberian Network for Academic Collaboration (LAINAC) at the University of Tokyo.