The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements

by Oxford University Press

Overview

Since the re-democratization of much of Latin America in the 1980s and a regional wave of anti-austerity protests in the 1990s, social movement studies has become an important part of sociological, political, and anthropological scholarship on the region. The subdiscipline has framed debates about formal and informal politics, spatial and relational processes, as well as economic changes in Latin America. While there is an abundant literature on particular movements in different countries across the region, there is limited coverage of the approaches, debates, and theoretical understandings of social movement studies applied to Latin America. In The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements, Federico M. Rossi presents a survey of the broad range of theoretical perspectives on social movements in Latin America. Bringing together a wide variety of viewpoints, the Handbook includes five sections: theoretical approaches to social movements, as applied to Latin America; processes and dynamics of social movements; major social movements in the region; ideational and strategic dimensions of social movements; and the relationship between political institutions and social movements. Covering key social movements and social dynamics in Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements is an indispensable reference for any scholar interested in social movements, protest, contentious politics, and Latin American studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190870386
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/28/2023
Series:	OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	640
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Federico M. Rossi (PhD, European University Institute, Florence) is a Profesor-Investigador of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires, and a Senior Fellow of the Humboldt Stiftung at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. He has published The Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina (Cambridge University Press), Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America: From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation (University of Pittsburgh Press), Social Movement Dynamics: New Perspectives on Theory and Research from Latin America (Routledge), and La participación de las juventudes hoy: la condición juvenil y la redefinición del involucramiento político y social (Prometeo).

Table of Contents

About the Editor About the Contributors Introduction 1. Multiple Paradigms for Understanding a Mobilized Region Federico M. Rossi Part I: Theoretical Perspectives 2. Marxist Theories of Latin American Social Movements Jeffery R. Webber 3. Resource Mobilization and Political Process Theories in Latin America Nicolás M. Somma 4. New Social Movements in Latin America and the Changing Socio-Political Matrix Manuel Antonio Garretón and Nicolás Selamé 5. Relational Approaches to Social Movements in (and beyond) Latin America Sam Halvorsen and Federico M. Rossi 6. Network Approaches to Latin American Movements Rose J. Spalding 7. Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Latin American Social Movements Niki Johnson and Diego Sempol 8. Decolonizing Approaches to Latin American Social Movements Juliana Flórez-Flórez and María Carolina Olarte-Olarte Part II: Main Processes and Dynamics 9. Protest Waves in Latin America: Facilitating Conditions and Outcomes Paul Almeida 10. Social Movements and Nationalism in Latin America Matthias vom Hau 11. Social Movements and Revolutions in Latin America: A Complex Relationship Salvador Martí i Puig and Alberto Martín Álvarez 12. Social Movements under Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America Charles D. Brockett 13. Social Movements and Democratization Processes in Latin America María Inclán 14. Social Movements and Capitalist Models of Development in Latin America Federico M. Rossi 15. Social Movements and Globalization in Latin America Danny Burridge and John Markoff 16. Movements and Territorial Conflicts in Latin America Bernardo Mançano Fernandes and Cliff Welch 17. Demobilization Processes in Latin America Pablo Lapegna, Maritza Paredes, and Renata Motta Part III: Main Social Movements 18. Transformations of Workers' Mobilization in Latin America Franklin Ramírez Gallegos and Soledad Stoessel 19. Peasant Movements in Recent Latin American History Cliff Welch 20. Women's Movements in Latin America: From Elite Organizing to Intersectional Mass Mobilization Christina Ewig and Elisabeth Jay Friedman 21. Indigenous Movements in Latin America: Characteristics and Contributions Roberta Rice 22. Afro-Social Movements and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Latin America Kwame Dixon and Kia Lilly Caldwell 23. Student Movements in Latin America: Pushing the Education Agenda and Beyond Sofía Donoso 24. Lesbian and Gay Social Movements in Latin America Jordi Díez 25. Human Rights Movements across Latin America Jonas Wolff 26. Environmental Mobilization in Latin America: Beyond the Lenses of Social Movements Lucas G. Christel and Ricardo A. Gutiérrez 27. Urban Social Movements and the Politics of Inclusion in Latin America Philip Oxhorn 28. Anti-Corruption Social Mobilization in Latin America Sebastián Pereyra, Tomás Gold and María Soledad Gattoni 29. Consumer (Rights) Movements in Latin America Sybil Rhodes 30. Autonomist Movements in Latin America Marcelo Lopes de Souza 31. Transnational Social Movements in Latin America Marisa von Bülow 32. Right-Wing Movements in Latin America Leigh A. Payne 33. Revolutionary Movements and Guerrillas in Latin America: From Revolutions to revolutions Leonidas Oikonomakis Part IV: Ideational and Strategic Dimensions of Social Movements 34. Social Movements in Latin America: The Cultural Dimension Ton Salman 35. Identity in Latin American Social Movements Lorenza B. Fontana 36. Ideas, Ideology, and Citizenship of Social Movements Anthony Petros Spanakos and Mishella Romo Rivas 37. Religious Groups and Social Movements in Latin America Robert Sean Mackin 38. Education, Pedagogy, and Social Movements in Latin America Rebecca Tarlau 39. Repertoires of Contention across Latin America Takeshi Wada 40. Shifting Geographies of Activism and the Spatial Logics of Latin American Social Movements Diane E. Davis and Taylor Davey 41. Strengths and Blind Spots of Digital Activism in Latin America: Mapping Actors, Tools, and Theories Emiliano Treré and Summer Harlow Part V: Institutional Politics and Social Movements 42. Social Movements and Party Politics: Popular Mobilization and the Reciprocal Structuring of Political Representation in Latin America Kenneth M. Roberts 43. Social Movement Activism, Informal Politics, and Clientelism in Latin America Hélène Combes and Julieta Quirós 44. Legal Mobilization: Social Movements and the Judicial System across Latin America Alba Ruibal 45. Social Movements and Participatory Institutions in Latin America Rocío Annunziata and Benjamin Goldfrank 46. Social Movements and Modes of Institutionalization Adrian Gurza Lavalle and José Szwako

Editorial Reviews

"A 'must book' for anyone interested in social movements in general and in Latin America in particular. Contributors address a range of theoretical perspectives, and rich analyses of a wide variety of social movements. The most comprehensive book!" — Susan Eckstein, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, USA

"Pervaded by inequalities of all sorts, Latin America has been a fertile terrain for the emergence of social movements and, therefore, of a remarkable production of analyses of their role and characteristics. In addition to an impressive and exhaustive array of different themes and analytical perspectives, this book has the crucial merit of opening space for significant theoretical contributions from Latin American scholarship on social movements, so often ignored by the English-language academia." — Evelina Dagnino, Departamento de Ciência Política, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

"Latin America is as belligerent as it is unequal. The notable group of scholars assembled in this important volume tells us how and why social movements emerge and persist, offering students of contentious politics a vast array of insightful theoretical tools and empirical lessons." — Javier Auyero, Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, USA

"The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements constitutes a major contribution to the field. It brings together in an interconnected way an important number of chapters, which cover a vast range of topics and problems, all of them of importance for the study of Latin American social movements. Recognizing the diversity of approaches applied to the study of social movements, it shows conceptual articulation and, in its full reading, offers an excellent overview of the field. This book is a significant contribution to the diffusion and debate of Latin American social and political sciences, the international circulation of the region's research and specific issues, while it contributes to the global debate on social movement studies." — Federico Schuster, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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