Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America

Moisés Arce,Takeshi Wada

• Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
• Jahr: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780826365699
• Thema: Politics & International Relations
• Thema: Global Politics

The arrival of democracy and globalization was a watershed moment for Latin America. It produced a changing political and economic environment, where democracy provided challengers with expanding political opportunities but globalization precipitated economic threats to livelihoods and human welfare. This changing environment removed the state from modes of political representation, such as urban labor movements and their affiliated mass-party organizations, while unleashing more pluralistic, heterogenous, and decentralized patterns of popular representation. Reducing its role in production, the state became mostly a regulator of economic activities. Arce and Wada's volume examines the consequences of democracy and globalization on popular protests in Latin America, theorizing a broad shift of popular politics involving reactive and proactive mobilizations. A collaboration of sixteen distinguished scholars with different specializations (economists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists) in both the Global North and South, the volume provides a unique collection of studies of protest events in ten Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction by Moisés Arce and Takeshi Wada
• Part 1. A Birds-Eye View on the Transformation of Popular Politics
• Chapter 2. A Historical and Spatial Analysis of Popular Protests in Mexico, 1955-2018 by Takeshi Wada
• Chapter 3. Globalization, Democracy, and Conflict Events in Bolivia, 1970-2019 by Roberto Laserna
• Chapter 4. State Debt with a Social Agenda, Constructed amid Social Protests in Colombia, 1975-2019 by Mauricio Archila Neira and Martha Cecilia García Velandia
• Chapter 5. Protesting in Good and Bad Times: Peru, 1980-2015 by Moisés Arce and Renzo Aurazo
• Chapter 6. Popular Protest, Deglobalization, and Authoritarianism in Venezuela, 1983-2012 by Margaret López Maya
• Part 2. A “Magnifying Glass” View on Specific Protest Campaigns
• Chapter 7. Local-Level Popular Protests in Central America at the Early Onset of Neoliberalism by Paul Almeida, Luis Rubén González Márquez, and María de Jesus Mora
• Chapter 8. A Grou-Based Approach to Analyze the Protest Landscape in Chile at the Height of Neoliberalism and Democracy by Nicolás M. Somma and Rodrigo M. Medel
• Chapter 9. Protest and Citizens’ Revolution in Ecuador under Post-Neoliberalism by Santiago Ortiz
• Chapter 10. Dynamics of Political Contention in Brazil: From Deepening to Debacle of Neo-Developmentalism by Luciana Tatagiba and Andréia Galvāo
• Chapter 11. Conclusion: Protest, Politics, and Event Count Analysis in Latin America by María Inclán
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index