Cultures in Conflict - Social Movements and the State in Peru

Informationen zum Autor Susan Stokes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Klappentext In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru! Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews! participant observation! and survey research she digs deeply into the popular culture of the social activists and shantytown residents she studies. The result is a penetrating look at how social movements evolve! how poor people construct independent political cultures! and how the ideological domination of oppressed classes can shatter. This work is a new and vital chapter in the growing literature on the formation of social movements. It chronicles the transformation of Peru's poor from a culture of deference and clientelism in the late 1960s to a population mobilized for radical political action today. Zusammenfassung Provides an analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. This title chronicles the transformation of Peru's poor from a culture of deference and clientelism in the late 1960s to a population mobilized for radical political action.

Product details

• Authors: Susan C. Stokes, Stokes Susan C.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1995
• EAN: 9780520200234
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20023-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Peru, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Poverty & unemployment, Urban communities, Poverty and precarity