Overview
- Offers a rich resource on the politics of mass mobilization in the early twenty-first century
- Includes examinations of the rise of left leaning governments in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru and Bolivia
- This multidisciplinary volume extends the story of social and political change in Latin America
Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)
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Keywords
- Developments in Social Movement Theory
- Ending of Military Governments in Latin america
- Liberation Theology
- Mexican social Movement
- Mobilizations against Privatization
- New Social Movements
- Piquetero Movement in Argentina
- Politics of Mass Mobilization in Latin America
- Social Change and Political Transitions in Latin America
- Social Movement to a More Democratic Climate
- Social Movements and Progressive Regimes
- Social Movements in Brasil
- Social Movements in Post-war El Salvador
- State Repression and Mobilization in Latin Amrica
- Women’s Movements in Latin America
- World Social Forum
- World-System Positio
Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Urban-Based Movements in South America
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Country Case Studies
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paul Almeida is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. His research centers on social movements. Almeida’s articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Mobilization, Social Forces, Social Problems, and other scholarly outlets. He is author of Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014); Waves of Protest: Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005 (University of Minnesota Press 2008) and co-editor with Hank Johnston of Latin American Social Movements: Globalization, Democratization and Transnational Networks (Rowman & Littlefield 2006). His research has been funded by the World Society Foundation and the Fulbright Scholars Program. Almeida serves on the editorial advisory boards of Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, Latin American Perspectives, Mobilization, Research in Political Sociology, Social Forces, and Sociologyof Development. He is a Council member for the Global and Transnational Sociology section and Chair-Elect of the section on the Political Economy of the World System (PEWS) of the American Sociological Association.
Allen Cordero Ulate was born in Tres Ríos, Costa Rica. He attended the University of Costa Rica and studied sociology in the mid 1970s. He participated in diverse social movements as well as the resistance against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua between 1978 and 1979. Since 1993 he has worked as a professor and researcher at FLACSO-Costa Rica. In 2003, he earned his doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Costa Rica. Since 2005, he has served as a professor in Sociology at the University of Costa Rica teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Social Movements and Research Methods. Dr. Cordero has also held a visiting Professorship at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine (IHEAL) de París 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle. In the field of social movements his research focuses on environmental, indigenous, and peasant movements. He is the author of several articles and books, including: Nuevos ejes de acumulación y naturaleza: el caso del turismo (CLACSO 2006) and El Paradigma Inconcluso. Kuhn y la Sociología en América Latina (FLACSO Guatemala 2008 and EUCR, 2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America
Editors: Paul Almeida, Allen Cordero Ulate
Series Title: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9912-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9911-9Published: 24 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0967-3Published: 12 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9912-6Published: 14 July 2015
Series ISSN: 1389-6903
Series E-ISSN: 2542-839X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 381
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Political Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences