New Democratic Initiatives in Authoritarian Twenty First Century - Latin Americ

This book rethinks traditional divisions between democracy and authoritarianism by providing a series of case studies and theoretical reflections on social movements, and democratic innovations in Latin America in the context of growing political polarization and the emergence of new right-wing politics.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Latin America's Second Pink Tide at a Crossroads: Between Democratic Backsliding and Democratic Innovations
Gonzalo Galindo Delgado & Daniel Schugurensky
Chapter 2. The Hegemony of Counter-Hegemony: Effects of the Paradoxes of the 2019 Social Protests in Chile and Ecuador
Thomas Chiasson-LeBel & Pablo Ospina Peralta
Chapter 3. Feminist Interventions in Barrios Populares in Latin America: Local Politics around Care and Social Services
Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, Charmain Levy, Natalia Czytajlo, Marisol Dalmazzo Peillard, Liliana Rainero, Jill Wigle, Lorena Zárate
Chapter 4. The Challenges of Indigenous Autonomy
Richard Stahler-Sholk
Chapter 5. Searching for Intersectional Activism: Women with Disabilities Navigating Legal Violence in Bolivia
Iblin Edelweiss Murillo Lafuente
Chapter 6. Gender Diversity Activism and Expansion of Rights in Argentina: Within the Movements, the Political Parties and the State
Juan Grandinetti
Chapter 7. Collective Mandates in Brazil: The "Gabinetona" Case
Ricardo Alves rCavalheiro , Leonardo Secchi , Willian Quadros da Silva
Chapter 8. Transient Coalition: The Resistance Movement of Workers in the Brazilian Cultural Sector
João Roque da Silva Júnior
Chapter 9. Social Movements in Porto Alegre Facing the De-Democratization of Participatory Budgeting
Jonas Lefebvre
Chapter 10. Neo-Ordoliberalism and the Left. Prospects for Strengthening Democracy and Overcoming the Contemporary Crises of Latin American Capitalism
Fernando Leiva Letelier
Chapter 11. On the Contradictions of the New Authoritarianisms. Neoliberal Demos in the Chilean Right-Wing Neopopulism
Tamara Ortega-Uribe

About the author

Charmain Levy is professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Université de l'Outaouais.
Manuel Larrabure is assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Bucknell University.
Dan Furukawa Marques is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Université Laval.

Product details

• Authors: Charmain Levy, Charmain Larrabure Levy
• Assisted by: Charmain Levy (Editor), Dan Furukawa Marques (Editor), Dan Furukawa Marques (Editor), Manuel Larrabure (Editor), Levy Charmain (Editor), Manuel Larrabure (Editor), Dan Furukawa Marques (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781666946222
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-622-2
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Caribbean islands, Developing Countries, Politics and government, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Development economics and emerging economies, Global South / Developing countries