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Paul Almeida • Allen Cordero Ulate
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Handbook of Social
Movements across
Latin America
Editors
Paul Almeida Allen Cordero Ulate
School of Social Sciences Humanities and Arts FLACSO-Costa Rica,
University of California, San José
Merced, California Costa Rica
USA
ISSN 1389-6903
ISBN 978-94-017-9911-9 ISBN 978-94-017-9912-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9912-6
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Contents
Part I Introduction: Movements Across Latin America
1 Social Movements Across Latin America....................................... 3
Paul Almeida and Allen Cordero Ulate
Part II Conceptual and Theoretical Advances
2 Social Movements and Progressive Regimes in
Latin America: World Revolutions and
Semiperipheral Development .......................................................... 13
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alessandro Morosin and Alexis Álvarez
3 “There and Back Again”: Latin American Social
Movements and Reasserting the Powers
of Structural Theories ...................................................................... 25
Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley and Susan Eva Eckstein
4 State Repression and Mobilization in Latin America ................... 43
David G. Ortiz
5 Protest Artifacts in the Mexican Social Movement
Sector: Reflections on the “Stepchild” of Cultural Analysis ........ 61
Ligia Tavera Fenollosa and Hank Johnston
Part III Critical Themes in Contemporary Popular Mobilization
6 Women’s Movements in Latin America ......................................... 79
Lynn Horton
7 Latin American Social Movements and the Social
Forum Process .................................................................................. 89
Ian Breckenridge-Jackson, Natasha Radojcic, Ellen Reese,
Elizabeth Schwarz and Christopher Vito
8 Liberation Theology and Social Movements ................................. 101
Robert Mackin
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9 B eyond Clientelism: The Piquetero Movement and the
State in Argentina ............................................................................ 117
Federico M. Rossi
Part IV Indigenous-Based Struggles Across the Continent
10 Indigenous Peoples’ Movements, Developments, and Politics
in Ecuador and Bolivia ................................................................... 131
Eduardo Silva
11 S liding Doors of Opportunity: Zapatistas and
Their Cycle of Protest ..................................................................... 145
María Inclán
12 Panama: Worker, Indigenous, and Popular Uprising
in Bocas del Toro ............................................................................. 165
Giovanni Beluche V.
Part V Urban-Based Movements in South America
13 It Takes Two to Tango: Students, Political Parties, and Protest
in Chile (2005–2013) ....................................................................... 179
Marisa von Bülow and Germán Bidegain Ponte
14 Urban Social Movements in Venezuela ......................................... 195
Sujatha Fernandes
15 Squatters and Politics in Montevideo at the Turn
of the Century .................................................................................. 205
María José Álvarez-Rivadulla
Part VI Environmental Conflicts
16 The Environmentalism of NGOs Versus Environmentalism
of the Poor? Mexico’s Social–Environmental Coalitions ............ 223
Jean Foyer and David Dumoulin Kervran
17 Environmental Conflicts and Social Movements in
Postwar El Salvador........................................................................ 237
Rafael E. Cartagena Cruz
18 Forest, Water, and Struggle: Environmental Movements
in Costa Rica .................................................................................... 255
Allen Cordero Ulate
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Part VII Country Case Studies
19 Protest and Social Movements in Peru ������������������������������������������ 275
Moisés Arce
20 Social Movement Contention in Colombia, 1958–2014 ���������������� 291
Marcela Velasco
21 Social Movements in Nicaragua (1979–2014):
An Exceptional Case ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 301
Salvador Martí i Puig
22 The Movement Against the Coup in Honduras ����������������������������� 313
Eugenio Sosa
23 Guatemalan Social Movements: From the Peace Process
to a New Cycle of Popular Struggle, (1996–2013) ������������������������� 327
Simona Violetta Yagenova
24 Trends of Social Protest in Argentina: 1989–2007 ������������������������ 335
Sebastián Pereyra, Germán J� Pérez
and Federico L� Schuster
25 Brazilian Social Movements in the Last Decade ��������������������������� 361
Maria da Glória Gohn
Index �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 373
Contributors
Paul Almeida University of California, Merced, CA, USA
Alexis Álvarez University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
María José Álvarez-Rivadulla Programa de Sociología, Universidad del
Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
Moises Arce University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Giovanni Beluche V. Extension and Social Action Divission, Universidad
Técnica Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
Germán Bidegain Ponte Political Science Institute, Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Ian Breckenridge-Jackson University of California, Riverside, USA
Marisa von Bülow Political Science Institute, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Political Science Institute, Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile, San-
tiago, Chile
Rafael E. Cartagena Cruz San Salvador, El Salvador
Christopher Chase-Dunn University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
Allen Cordero Ulate FLACSO-Costa Rica and the Department of Sociology,
Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
David Dumoulin Kervran Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine
(IHEAL)—CREDA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
Susan Eva Eckstein Boston University, Boston, USA
Ligia Tavera Fenollosa Department of Sociology, FLACSO México,
México D.F., C.P., Mexico
Sujatha Fernandes City University of New York, New York, USA
Jean Foyer Institut des Sciences de la Communication, CNRS-Sorbonne
Université-UPMC, Paris, France
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Maria da Glória Gohn UNICAMP/ CNPq, Campinas, Brazil
Lynn Horton Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA
María Inclán División de Estudios Políticos, Centro de Investigación y
Docencia Económicas, México, D.F., México
Hank Johnston Department of Sociology, San Diego State University, San
Diego, CA, USA
Robert Mackin Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Salvador Martí i Puig Girona University, Girona, Spain
Alessandro Morosin University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
David G. Ortiz New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico,
USA
Sebastián Pereyra CONICET—Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Bue-
nos Aires, Argentina
Germán J. Pérez Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Natasha Radojcic University of California, Riverside, USA
Ellen Reese University of California, Riverside, USA
Federico M. Rossi Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Federico L. Schuster Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argen-
tina
Elizabeth Schwarz University of California, Riverside, USA
Eduardo Silva Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Eugenio Sosa UNAH, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Marcela Velasco Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Christopher Vito University of California, Riverside, USA
Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley Georgetown University, Washington, DC,
USA
Simona Violetta Yagenova FLACSO-Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guate-
mala
