Power and Popular Protest - Latin American Social Movements, Updated and Expanded Edition

"A wonderful starting point for studying social movements in contemporary Latin America and for analyzing how unique processes of dependent capitalist development, and attendant political structures, influence their emergence and impact. This edited volume comes just in time, before we get too carried away with Euro-centered theories of new social movements and lose sight of what is really happening at the grassroots. It is one of the first collections of its kind published in English, and as such it is a rich and long-overdue contribution. "—Diane E. Davis, Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs

"Carefully conceived, Power and Popular Protest is a superb text to be consulted in the years to come by anyone interested in understanding contemporary Latin American politics and society."—Rosario Espinal, Contemporary Sociology

About the author

Susan Eckstein is Professor of Sociology at Boston University.

Summary

Features essays that present a range of subjects on the cause and consequence of protest movements in Latin America, from an examination of the varying faces but common origins of rural guerilla movements, to a discussion of multiclass protests, to an essay on las madres de plaza de mayo.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Eckstein, Susan Eva Eckstein
• Assisted by: Susan Eckstein (Editor), Susan Eva Eckstein (Editor), Eckstein Susan Eva (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.2001
• EAN: 9780520227057
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22705-7
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Latin America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Regional Studies, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Regional / International studies, Sociology & anthropology, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Demonstrations & protest movements, Sociology and anthropology