The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:12th May '23
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
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 *
This is a complete volume combining theory and case studies and offering a fresh view of recent debates. * Choice *
ISBN: 9780190870362
Dimensions: 183mm x 244mm x 84mm
Weight: 1565g
848 pages