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Zusatztext 'An intellectually exciting and original dialogue between two frameworks for understanding the sense of belonging and social action in Latin America! with the value of an interdisciplinary approach.' - Jenny Pearce! Professor of Latin American Politics! Peace Studies! University of Bradford! EnglandThe highly original approach that Yanovavitch and Rice take in bringing these authors together will lead readers to rethink the boundaries between the humanities and the social sciences as they consider the difference between "community!" as a place of solidarity and mutual support that provides a sense of belonging! and "civil society!" defined in the volume by Philip Oxhorn as the site in which marginalized groups manage to organize themselves to defend their collective interests in a space that lies outside the control of the state. Civil society organizations do this through activities that are sometimes supportive of but! at other times! antagonistic to both communities and to other civil society movements - a contradiction explored in the volume through approaches as varied as literary criticism! ethno musicology! and participant observation of social movements. - Judith Adler Hellman! Professor of Political and Social Science! York University! Toronto Informationen zum Autor Gordana Yovanovich is a professor and graduate coordinator for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at the University of Guelph. Roberta Rice is an assistant professor in political science at the University of Calgary. Zusammenfassung The ideas of community and civil society tend to be studied separately, as analytically distinct concepts however, this volume seeks to explore their potential to work together. A unique contribution of the work is the space for dialogue it creates between the social sciences and the humanities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section I: Concepts Chapter One: Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society Gordana Yovanovich and Roberta Rice Chapter Two: Civil Society from the Inside Out: Community, Organization and the Challenge of Political Influence Philip Oxhorn Section II: Community Chapter Three: Modernized Honor Culture and Community: García Márquez´s Chronicle of a Death Foretold/Crónica de una muerte anunciada Gordana Yovanovich Chapter Four: Reframing the Archive and Expanding Collective Memory in order to Bridge the Divide between Community and Civil Society in Yxta Maya Murray’s The Conquest Pablo Ramirez Chapter Five: Memory and Temporary Communities in Laura Restrepo´s The Dark Bride / La novia oscura Maca Suazo and Lisa Bellstedt. Chapter Six: Community and Learning: The Process of Concientization among Nicaraguan Peasants through Song Mery Perez Chapter Seven: Community and the State: Piecing Together Differences in Alejandro Brugués’ Juan of the Dead Miharu M. Miyasaka and Patrick X. Horrigan Section III: Civil Society Chapter Eight: Intercultural Democracy and Civil Society Participation in the New, Decolonized Bolivia Roberta Rice Chapter Nine: Conceptualizing Transnational Civil Society in Guatemala Candace Johnson Chapter Ten: Collective Banks and Counter-Acts: Building Civil Society from Within in Jamaica and Guyana Caroline Shenaz Hossein Chapter Eleven: War on Civil Society in Vargas Llosa’s The War of the End of the World Olga Nedvyga Chapter Twelve: "Radical" Participatory Democracy Institutions in Venezuela and Ecuador: Strengthening Civil Society or Mechanisms for Controlled Inclusion? Pascal Lupien Section IV: Conclusions Chapter Thirteen: Towards Civic Community: Conclusions Gordana Yovanovich and Roberta Rice ...
