Pachakutik - Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador

Informationen zum Autor Marc Becker is professor of Latin American history at Truman State University. Klappentext This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador. Leading scholar Marc Becker traces the growing influence of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) in the wake of a 1990 uprising, the launch of a new political movement called Pachakutik in 1995, and the election of Rafael Correa in 2006. Even though CONAIE, Pachakutik, and Correa shared similar concerns for social justice, they soon came into conflict with each other. Becker examines the competing strategies and philosophies that emerge when social movements and political parties embrace comparable visions but follow different paths to realize their objectives. In exploring the multiple and conflictive strategies that Indigenous movements have followed over the past twenty years, he definitively charts the trajectory of one of the Americas' most powerful and best organized social movements. In a new epilogue, Becker examines heightened conflicts over the extraction of natural resources and new challenges to the Correa administration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Politicization of Indigenous IdentitiesChapter 2: UprisingsChapter 3: The Emergence of an Electoral OptionChapter 4: The Last Coup of the Twentieth CenturyChapter 5: Indians in PowerChapter 6: A Citizens' RevolutionChapter 7: Rewriting the Constitution . . . AgainChapter 8: 2009 ElectionsChapter 9: Social Movements and Electoral PoliticsEpilogue: The Children of 1990Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Becker, Marc Becker, Becker Marc
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.10.2012
• EAN: 9781442207547
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0754-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series; Critical Currents in Latin Ame; Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Ecuador, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Civil rights & citizenship, Elections & referenda, Civics and citizenship, Elections and referenda / suffrage, Latin American studies