Gerardo Otero, Efe Can Gürcan

Collective Empowerment in Latin America (eBook, ePUB)

Indigenous Peasant Movements and Political Transformation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down. For social movement activists and researchers working in political sociology, sociological theory, political studies, development studies, social movements, and Latin American Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040047415
• Artikelnr.: 70545029

Autorenporträt

Gerardo Otero is Professor of International Studies at the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Efe Can Gürcan is Visiting Senior Scholar at the London School of Economics, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From Individual Agency to Collective Empowerment Theory Part
1: Theoretical Foundations of Collective Empowerment 1. Dependent
Development and Beyond: Transnational Globalism or Internationalist
Nationalism? 2. Sociological Imagination: From Methodological Individualism
to Collective Empowerment 3. Democracy, Civil Society, and the State 4.
Class or Identity Politics? A False Dichotomy 5. Collective Empowerment
Theory Part 2: From Theory to Historical Practice 6. Forging Democracies:
Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy 7. Food Sovereignty Collective
Empowerment: The Indigenous Peasantry in Argentina 8. Articulating
Indigeneity and Class: Rise of the Movimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia 9.
The Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil: Independence and Autonomy 10. Was
There a Left Turn in Latin America? Building a Social Democracy Index
Conclusion: Toward a Popular-Democratic, Socialist Alternative