Author: Gerardo Otero
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040047416
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down, from state interventions responding to such pressure. Reflecting on the advancement of Indigenous and peasant movements in Latin America since the neoliberal reformation of capitalism in the 1980s, the book outlines a path for progressive social action in which bottom-up pressure by social movements can help progressive parties to gain state power. The book considers how Indigenous and peasant movements in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico have tried to reshape crucial structures of society from the bottom up. While this mobilization from below is critical and necessary, the book argues that these movements must be supplemented by top-down change from progressive state interventions, as happened mostly in Bolivia and Brazil. The authors conclude that progressive societal action can have massive impact in transforming some of the main socioeconomic structures that determine humans’ relation to the extraction of natural resources, income and wealth inequality, and even the location of a nation’s insertion in world capitalism. This book will be an important resource for social-movement activists and for researchers working in political sociology, sociological theory, political studies, development studies, social movements, and Latin American Studies.
Author: GERARDO. GURCAN OTERO (EFE CAN.)
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032738413
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down. For social movement activists and researchers working in political sociology, sociological theory, political studies, development studies, social movements, and Latin American Studies.
Author: Luis Roniger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil society
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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This collection of essays on Latin America traces the interplay between the public structuring and regulation of identities and the creative processes of collective identification, appropriation and evasion of identities.
Author: Araceli Ortega Díaz
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1839824727
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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What progress has been made to achieve SDG5? Bridging the academic and policymaking spaces, this edited collection offers a critical insight and evaluation of the public policies targeted at improving the condition of women living in developing countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Author: Katherine Becerra Valdivia
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666909114
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Latin America is a region with high levels of recognition for Indigenous collective rights. Still, legal protections differ considerably among countries. Why do some countries in Latin America have a strong recognition of collective rights for Indigenous people while others do not? What are the factors that help enhance the presence of collective rights? The author argues that while Indigenous social movements are crucial to the protection of Indigenous rights, they are not enough. The recognition of these rights is influenced by organizational factors (such as coalitions between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous allies) as well as institutional conditions (including constitutional replacement and party systems). By employing qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and case studies from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru, this book explores the ways various elements combine to create conditions for a variety of collective rights.
Author: Gibrán Cruz-Martínez
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429895666
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of international experts to analyse social protection systems and welfare regimes across contemporary Latin America. The book starts with a section tracking the expansion of social assistance and social insurance in Latin America through the state-led development era, the neoliberal era and the pink-tide. The second section explores the role played by local and external actors modelling social policy in the region. The third and final section addresses a variety of contemporary debates and challenges around social protection and welfare in the region, such as gender roles and the empowerment of CCT beneficiaries, and welfare provision for rural outsiders. The book touches on key topics such as conditional cash transfer programmes, trade union inclusionary strategies, transnational social policy, state-led versus market-led welfare provision, explanatory factors in the emerging dualism of social protection institutions, social citizenship rights as a consequence of changing social policy architecture and different poverty reduction strategies. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians working on social protection in Latin America, or interested in welfare systems in the global south.
Author: Luis Roniger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781898723776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Illustrates how different collective identities in Latin America have access to, and participation in, the public domain, and examines the historical experience of societies marked by social, political, and intellectual struggles as each shapes a collective identity according to competing visions of modernity. Subjects include patriotism and the nation in colonial Spanish America, human rights violations and the reshaping of collective identities, and Latin American intellectuals and collective identity. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Elizabeth Jelin
Publisher: Zed Bks
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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This book comprises six case studies : on Argentina, Bolivia (2x), Brazil, Chile and Peru. The six studies present different aspects of the women's movement and organisations and employ different methodologies (f.e. Women settlers in Lima, women and trade unions in Chile and peasant women's organisation in Bolivia)
Author: Arturo Escobar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429964854
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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This book, paying attention to the axes of identity, strategy, and democracy, grew out of the authors' shared and growing interest in contemporary social movements and the vast theoretical literature on these movements produced during the 1980s, particularly in Latin America and Western Europe.
Author: Richard Albert
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509923519
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design and impact, while others have been far-reaching transformations to basic structural features and fundamental rights. Scholars interested in the law and politics of constitutional change in Latin America are turning increasingly to comparative methodologies to expose the nature and scope of these changes, to uncover the motivations of political actors, to theorise how better to execute the procedures of constitutional reform, and to assess whether there should be any limitations on the power of constitutional amendment. In this collection, leading and emerging voices in Latin American constitutionalism explore the complexity of the vast topography of constitutional developments, experiments and perspectives in the region. This volume offers a deep understanding of modern constitutional change in Latin America and evaluates its implications for constitutionalism, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
