Dignity for the Voiceless

Ton Salman has worked on grassroots organizations, citizenship and democratization processes in Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia and is Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the VU University of Amsterdam.

“This is a fascinating body of work…I was most impressed by his balance of "hard" political-science analysis and the softer socio-cultural interpretations and by the balance of theory and applied work (scholarship speaking to real world contemporary problems).”  ·  Edward Fischer, Vanderbilt University

• ForewordGeert BanckAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroductionGemma van der Haar, Salvador Martí i Puig, Ton SalmanPART I: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICAIntroductionGeert BanckChapter 1. Of Structured Moves and Moving Structures: An Overview of Theoretical Perspectives on Social MovementsChapter 2. Urban Social Movements, Democratization and Democracy in BrazilPART II: AGRARIAN ISSUESIntroductionCristobal KayChapter 3. The Agrarian Question in Peru: Some Observations on the Roads of CapitalChapter 4. From Rubber Estate to Simple Commodity Production: Agrarian Struggles in the Northern Bolivian AmazonPART III: INDIGENOUS (LAND) RIGHTSIntroductionAndré HoekemaChapter 5. Self-Determination and the “New Partnership”; the Politics of Indigenous Peoples and StatesChapter 6. Indian Justice in the Andes: Re-rooting or Re-routing?PART IV: ETHNICITY AND CITIZENSHIPIntroductionSalvador Martí i PuigChapter 7. The Limits of State Reform and Multiculturalism in Latin America: Contemporary IllustrationsChapter 8. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Indigenous Peoples and Autonomies in Latin AmericaPART V: POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOLIVIAIntroductionTon SalmanChapter 9. David versus Goliath in Cochabamba: Water Rights, Neoliberalism and the Revival of Social Protest in BoliviaChapter 10. Neoliberalism and the Re-Emergence of Ethnopolitics in BoliviaBibliography Willem Assies