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.
Author(s): Federico M. Rossi
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 849
Tags: Sociology; Latin American: Social Movements
Cover Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Introduction
1. Multiple Paradigms for Understanding a Mobilized Region
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives
2. Marxist Theories of Latin American Social Movements
3. Resource Mobilization and Political Process Theories in Latin America
4. New Social Movements in Latin America and the Changing Socio-Political Matrix
5. Relational Approaches to Social Movements in (and beyond) Latin America
6. Network Approaches to Latin America Social Movements
7. Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Latin American Social Movements
8. Decolonizing Approaches to Latin American Social Movements
Part II: Main Processes and Dynamics
9. Protest Waves in Latin America: Facilitating Conditions and Outcomes
10. Social Movements and Nationalism in Latin America
11. Social Movements and Revolutions in Latin America: A Complex Relationship
12. Social Movements under Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America
13. Social Movements and Democratization Processes in Latin America
14. Social Movements and Capitalist Models of Development in Latin America
15. Social Movements and Globalization in Latin America
16. Movements and Territorial Conflicts in Latin America
17. Demobilization Processes in Latin America
Part III: Main Social Movements
18. Transformations of Workers’ Mobilization in Latin America
19. Peasant Movements in Recent Latin American History
20. Women’s Movements in Latin America: From Elite Organizing to Intersectional Mass Mobilization
21. Indigenous Movements in Latin America: Characteristics and Contributions
22. Afro-Social Movements and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Latin America
23. Student Movements in Latin America: Pushing the Education Agenda and Beyond
24. Lesbian and Gay Social Movements in Latin America
25. Human Rights Movements across Latin America
26. Environmental Mobilization in Latin America: Beyond the Lenses of Social Movements
27. Urban Social Movements and the Politics of Inclusion in Latin America
28. Anti-Corruption Social Mobilization in Latin America
29. Consumer (Rights) Movements in Latin America
30. Autonomist Movements in Latin America
31. Transnational Social Movements in Latin America
32. Right-Wing Movements in Latin America
33. Revolutionary Movements and Guerrillas in Latin America: From Revolutions to revolutions
Part IV: Ideational and Strategic Dimensions of Social Movements
34. Social Movements in Latin America: The Cultural Dimension
35. Identity in Latin American Social Movements
36. Ideas, Ideology, and Citizenship of Social Movements
37. Religious Groups and Social Movements in Latin America
38. Education, Pedagogy, and Social Movements in Latin America
39. Repertoires of Contention across Latin America
40. Shifting Geographies of Activism and the Spatial Logics of Latin American Social Movements
41. Strengths and Blind Spots of Digital Activism in Latin America: Mapping Actors, Tools, and Theories
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
43. Social Movement Activism, Informal Politics, and Clientelism in Latin America
44. Legal Mobilization: Social Movements and the Judicial System across Latin America
45. Social Movements and Participatory Institutions in Latin America
46. Social Movements and Modes of Institutionalization
Index
