Contesting Publics - Feminism, Activism, Ethnography

Through ethnographic case studies and activists' narratives, Contesting Publics analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory democracy in Latin America. Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole analyse how new silences, exclusions and re-inscriptions of inequalities have emerged alongside these new spaces of participation. They re-examine the relationship between public and private and address a larger theoretical question: what is the meaning of 'the public' within democracy projects? Contesting Publics considers current debates among feminists from different generations on the merits of a variety of strategies, goals and issues, drawing out vital lessons for students, researchers and activists in anthropology, gender studies and Latin American studies.

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About the author

Lynne Phillips is Dean of Arts and Professor of Anthropology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is co-author of Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism, Ethnography (Pluto, 2014) and The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America: Cultural Perspectives on Neoliberalism (1998).

Sally Cole is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. She is co-author of Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism, Ethnography (Pluto, 2014) and author of Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology (2003).

Summary

Analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory democracy in Latin America.

Product details

• Authors: Sally Cole, Cole Sally, Lynne Phillips, Lynne Cole Phillips, Phillips Lynne
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2014
• EAN: 9780745334592
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3459-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci; Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Feminism & feminist theory, Social and cultural anthropology, Feminism and feminist theory