Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America

Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America
Author: Edward F. Fischer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 1845455975

In recent years the concept and study of “civil society” has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society’s growth and critically assesses the potential for sustained change. Much recent literature has focused on the remarkable gains made by civil society and the chapters in this volume reinforce this trend while also showing the complexity of civil society - that civil society can itself sometimes be uncivil. In doing so, these insightful contributions speak not only to Latin American area studies but also to the changing shape of global systems of political economy in general.

Sustaining Civil Society

Sustaining Civil Society
Author: Philip Oxhorn
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0271048948

"Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing democratization in Latin America"--Provided by publisher.

After the Pink Tide

After the Pink Tide
Author: Marina Gold
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2020-03-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789208769

The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized anthropological perspective, this book argues that at a time when the regular structures of political participation have been ruptured, the Latin American context reveals multiple expressions of egalitarian movements that strive (and sometimes momentarily manage) to break through the state’s apparatus.

The New Latin American Left

The New Latin American Left
Author: Patrick S. Barrett
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2008-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN:

Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.

Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
Author: Leigh Binford
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2020-01-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789205611

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach. The seven case studies are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors assess the continuing relevance of Wolf’s political economy. The book concludes with Gavin Smith’s reflection on reading Eric Wolf as a public intellectual today.

Red October

Red October
Author: Jeffery R. Webber
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004205586

Bolivia witnessed a left-indigenous insurrectionary cycle between 2000 and 2005 that overthrew two neoliberal presidents and laid the foundation for Evo Morales’ successful bid to become the country’s first indigenous head of state in 2006. Building on the theoretical traditions of revolutionary Marxism and indigenous liberation, this book provides an analytical framework for understanding the fine-grained sociological and political nuances of twenty-first century Bolivian class-struggle, state-repression, and indigenous resistance, as well the deeply historical roots of today’s oppositional traditions. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, including more than 80 in-depth interviews with social-movement and trade-union activists, Red October is a ground-breaking intervention in the study of contemporary Bolivia and the wider Latin American turn to the left over the last decade.

The Civil Sphere in Latin America

The Civil Sphere in Latin America
Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2018-05-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108426832

Illuminates hot button issues in contemporary Latin America from an intellectually radical perspective: a sociological theory of democracy as civil sphere.

The Andean World

The Andean World
Author: Linda J. Seligmann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 717
Release: 2018-11-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317220781

This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of economic production, exchange, and consumption, postcolonial legacies, identities, political organization and movements, and transnational interconnections. With over 40 essays by expert contributors that highlight the breadth and depth of Andean worlds, this is an essential resource for students and scholars alike.

Studies in Law, Politics and Society

Studies in Law, Politics and Society
Author: Austin Sarat
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1780520816

This volume Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains a symposium on indigenous peoples in Latin America. It examines the ways rights are negotiated between those groups and the states in which they live.