Rethinking Latin American Social Movements

Richard Stahler-Sholk is professor in the Department of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University. Harry E. Vanden is professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs and the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of South Florida. Marc Becker is professor in the Department of History at Truman State University.

With engaging essays documenting grassroots resistance to neoliberalism across Latin America, this volume is a must-read for anyone interested in how ordinary people are challenging and changing the meaning of democracy in the region.

• Chapter 1: Introduction, Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Marc BeckerPart I: Changing Contexts, Changing ResponsesChapter 2: Reinventing Revolutions in Latin America: An “Other” Politics in Practice and Theory, Sara MottaPart II: Movement Dynamics, Strategies, and IdentitiesChapter 3: Challenges and Difficulties of Urban Territories in Resistance, Raúl ZibechiChapter 4: Building Horizontal Political Cultures: Youth Activism and the Legacy of the Oaxacan Social Movement of 2006, Maurice Rafael MagañaChapter 5: Praxis of Empowerment: Mística and Mobilization in Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement, Daniela IssaChapter 6: Network Politics in the Mesoamerican Movement against the Plan Puebla-Panamá, Alicia SwordsChapter 7: Por la refundación de Honduras: Building a New Kind of Social Movement, Suyapa Portillo VilledaChapter 8: Popular Feminism in Contemporary Brazil: Lineage and Alliances, Nathalie LebonChapter 9: The Contradictions of Black Cultural Politics in Salvador da Bahia: 1970s to the Present, Kwame DixonPart III: Dealing with the (Reconstituted) StateChapter 10: Autonomy, Collective Identity, and Social Movement Strategies: The Zapatistas and Beyond, Richard Stahler-SholkChapter 11: Argentina: Against and Beyond the State, Marina A. SitrinChapter 12: Taking the Streets, Swarming Public Spaces: The 2013 Popular Protests and Social Movements in Brazil, Harry E. VandenChapter 13: Bolivarianism and the Venezuelan Commune, George Ciccariello-MaherChapter 14: Correa, Indigenous Movements, and the Writing of a New Constitution in Ecuador, Marc BeckerChapter 15: Bolivia’s MAS and Its Relation with the Movements That Brought It to State Power, Leonidas Oikonomakis and Fran EspinozaPart IV: Transnational OrganizingChapter 16: Horizontalism and the Anti-Mining Movement in El Salvador, Rose J. SpaldingChapter 17: Horizontal Dialogue in the Construction of Agroecology by CLOC/Vía Campesina, María Elena Martínez and Peter M. RossetChapter 18: Conclusion, Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Marc Becker