Collective Empowerment in Latin America Indigenous Peasant Movements and Political Transformation

"An ambitious book offering hope that a better world is possible, building on the collective empowerment of dominated groups, with the support of the state. Chapters focus on indigenous and other agrarian groups across Latin America. The book is both theoretically and empirically rich."

Susan Eckstein, Boston University, USA. Author, most recently, of Cuban Privilege, and recipient of the Latin American Studies Association 2023 Kalman Silvert Life-time Achievement Award

"By transcending class reductionism and addressing the mediations between class structural processes and political cultural formation, this book is a major achievement and is unmatched as a contemporary classic."

Adam David Morton, Professor, Discipline of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia

"This creative neo-Gramscian approach outlines a strategy of collective empowerment in which subordinate groups in Latin America overcome socially-constructed divisions via 'political-cultural formation', rejecting false dichotomies of class vs. identity. It offers hopeful analysis of Indigenous-peasant mobilizations challenging neoliberalism, with valuable insights for sociologists, Latin Americanists, and social movement scholar/activists."

Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor Emeritus, Eastern Michigan University, USA

"An excellent reflection on the spoliation and disarticulating rigors that neoliberalism has imposed on the dominated. It is also a suggestive argument about a way out that would imply a class-identity rearticulation and a synergy between bottom-up collective empowerment and progressive state intervention from above."

Carlos Figueroa Ibarra, Research Professor, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico