Meaningful Resistance - Market Reforms and the Roots of Social Protest in Latin America

Exploring marketization, local practices, and protests, this book shows how market-driven subsistence threats can be powerful loci for resistance movements.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Water in Cochabamba; 3. ¡El agua es nuestra, carajo! The origins of the Bolivian Water Wars; 4. Corn in Mexico; 5. Sin maíz no hay país: the Mexican tortillazo protests; 6. Conclusions.

About the author

Erica S. Simmons is a Lyons Family Faculty Scholar and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her dissertation, on which the book is based, was awarded the Latin American Studies Association's 2013 Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright Commission and the Mellon Foundation, among others.

Summary

This book will appeal to anyone interested in social movements, responses to market reforms, responses to privatization, responses to free trade, politics and cultures of food and water, and the rise of the left in Latin America. It would also appeal to people interested in recent Bolivian and Mexican politics.

Product details

• Authors: Erica Simmons, Erica S. Simmons, Erica S. (University of Wisconsin Simmons
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2016
• EAN: 9781107124851
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12485-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Political activism, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Political activism / Political engagement