Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments — Cultures of Politics Politics of Cultures — About the Editors and Contributors — Introduction: The Cultural and the Political in Latin American Social Movements — The Cultural Politics of Citizenship, Democracy, and the State — Culture, Citizenship, and Democracy: Changing Discourses and Practices of the Latin American Left — Social Rights: Conflicts and Negotiations in Contemporary Brazil — New Subjects of Rights? Women’s Movements and the Construction of Citizenship in the “New Democracies” — The Explosion of Experience: The Emergence of a New Ethical-Political Principle in Popular Movements in Porto Alegre, Brazil — The Cultural Politics of Ethnicity, Race, and Gender — Ambiguity and Contradiction in a Radical Popular Movement — Indigenous Movements as a Challenge to the Unified Social Movement Paradigm for Guatemala — The Process of Black Community Organizing in the Southern Pacific Coast Region of Colombia — Black Movements and the “Politics of Identity” in Brazil — Beyond the Domestic and the Public: Colonas Participation in Urban Movements in Mexico City — Defrocking the Vatican: Feminism’s Secular Project — Globalization, Transnationalism, and Civil Society — Latin American Feminisms “Go Global”: Trends of the 1990s and Challenges for the New Millennium — Cybercultural Politics: Political Activism at a Distance in a Transnational World — The Globalization of Culture and the New Civil Society — Rethinking the Spatialities of Social Movements: Questions of (B)orders, Culture, and Politics in Global Times — Theoretical and Methodological Reflections on the Cultural and the Political in Latin American Social Movements — Toward a Culture of Participation and Citizenship: Challenges for a More Equitable World — Final Comments: Challenges to Cultural Studies in Latin America — Third World or Planetary Conflicts? — Where To? What Next?
