Rethinking Latin American Social Movements: Radical Action from Below

by Stahler-sholk, Richard; Vanden, Harry E.; Becker, Marc

• ISBN13: 9781442235687
• ISBN10: 1442235683
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781442235694
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-11-25
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Author Biography

Richard Stahler-Sholk is professor in the Department of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University. Harry E. Vanden is professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs and the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of South Florida. Marc Becker is professor in the Department of History at Truman State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction, Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Marc Becker
Part I: Changing Contexts, Changing Responses
Chapter 2: Reinventing Revolutions in Latin America: An “Other” Politics in Practice and Theory, Sara Motta
Part II: Movement Dynamics, Strategies, and Identities
Chapter 3: Challenges and Difficulties of Urban Territories in Resistance, Raúl Zibechi
Chapter 4: Building Horizontal Political Cultures: Youth Activism and the Legacy of the Oaxacan Social Movement of 2006, Maurice Rafael Magaña
Chapter 5: Praxis of Empowerment: Mística and Mobilization in Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement, Daniela Issa
Chapter 6: Network Politics in the Mesoamerican Movement against the Plan Puebla-Panamá, Alicia Swords
Chapter 7: Por la refundación de Honduras: Building a New Kind of Social Movement, Suyapa Portillo Villeda
Chapter 8: Popular Feminism in Contemporary Brazil: Lineage and Alliances, Nathalie Lebon
Chapter 9: The Contradictions of Black Cultural Politics in Salvador da Bahia: 1970s to the Present, Kwame Dixon
Part III: Dealing with the (Reconstituted) State
Chapter 10: Autonomy, Collective Identity, and Social Movement Strategies: The Zapatistas and Beyond, Richard Stahler-Sholk
Chapter 11: Argentina: Against and Beyond the State, Marina A. Sitrin
Chapter 12: Taking the Streets, Swarming Public Spaces: The 2013 Popular Protests and Social Movements in Brazil, Harry E. Vanden
Chapter 13: Bolivarianism and the Venezuelan Commune, George Ciccariello-Maher
Chapter 14: Correa, Indigenous Movements, and the Writing of a New Constitution in Ecuador, Marc Becker
Chapter 15: Bolivia’s MAS and Its Relation with the Movements That Brought It to State Power, Leonidas Oikonomakis and Fran Espinoza
Part IV: Transnational Organizing
Chapter 16: Horizontalism and the Anti-Mining Movement in El Salvador, Rose J. Spalding
Chapter 17: Horizontal Dialogue in the Construction of Agroecology by CLOC/Vía Campesina, María Elena Martínez and Peter M. Rosset
Chapter 18: Conclusion, Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Marc Becker