Cultures in Conflict: Social Movements and the State in Peru

by Susan C. Stokes

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520200234
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/01/1995
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Susan Stokes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

	List of Figures and Tables	xi
	Preface	xiii
Part 1	The State and Social Movements
1.	Movements from Below, Hegemony from Above	3
2.	The Lower Classes under the Oligarchic State	16
3.	Military Rule and the Transformation of Lower-Class Politics	32
4.	Lower-Class Politics and Revived Civilian Rule	48
Part 2	Social Movements and Political Culture
5.	Clients and Radicals Political Culture in Independencia	61
6.	Political Culture and the Mass Public	85
7.	Social Movements, Hegemony, and the State	111
	Postscript	133
Appendix	Survey Instrument (in English)	137
	Notes	143
	Bibliography	165
	Index	181