edited by Sonia E. Alvarez, Evelina Dagnino, Arturo Escobar
Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
1998
xiii, 459 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : the cultural and the political in Latin American social movements / Sonia E. Alvarez, Evelina Dagnino, Arturo Escobar -- pt. 1. The cultural politics of citizenship, democracy, and the state. Culture, citizenship, and democracy : changing discourses and practices of the Latin American Left / Evelina Dagnino -- Social rights : conflicts and negotiations in contemporary Brazil / Maria Celia Paoli, Vera da Silva Telles -- New subjects of rights? Women's movements and the construction of citizenship in the "new democracies" / Verónica Schild -- The explosion of experience : the emergence of a new ethical-political principle in popular movements in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Sérgio Gregório Baierle -- pt. 2. The cultural politics of ethnicity, race, and gender. Ambiguity and contradiction in a radical popular movement / Jeffrey Rubin -- Indigenous movements as a challenge to the unified social movement paradigm for Guatemala / Kay B. Warren -- The process of black community organizing in the southern Pacific coast region of Colombia / Libia Grueso, Carlos Rosero, Arturo Escobar -- Black movements and the "politics of identity" in Brazil / Olivia maria Gomes da Cunha -- Beyond the domestic and the public : colonas participation in urban movements in Mexico City / Miguel Díaz-Barriga -- Defrocking the Vatican : feminism's secular project / Jean Franco -- pt. 3. Globalization, transnationalism, and civil society. Latin American feminisms "go global" : trends of the 1990s and challenges for the new millennium / Sonia E. Alvarez -- Cybercultural politics : political activism at a distance in a transnational world / Gustavo Lins Ribeiro -- The globalization of culture and the new civil society / George Yúdice -- Rethinking the spatialities of aocial movements : questions of (b)orders, culture, and politics in global times / David Slater -- pt. 4. Theoretical and methodological reflections on the cultural and the political in Latin American social movements. Toward a culture of participation and citizenship : challenges for a more equitable world / Elizabeth Jelin -- Final comments : challenges to cultural studies in Latin America / Paulo J. Krischke -- Third World or planetary conflicts? / Alberto Melucci -- Where To? What Next? / Mary Louise Pratt
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"Investigating the complex interrelations between culture and politics in a wide range of social movements in Latin America, this book focuses on the cultural politics enacted by social movements as they struggle for new visions and practices of citizenship, democracy, social relations, and development. The volume explores the potential of these cultural politics for fostering alternative political cultures and social transformations. Theoretical and empirical chapters assess and build upon novel conceptions of culture and politics in a variety of disciplines and fields -- particularly anthropology, political science, sociology, feminist theory, and cultural studies. The notion of the cultural politics of social movements provides a lens for analyzing emergent discourses and practices grounded in society and culture, the state and political institutions, and the extent to which they may unsettle, or be reinscribed into, the dominant neoliberal strategies of the 1990s. Contributors explore how social movements -- urban popular, women's, indigenous, and black movements as well as movements for citizenship and democracy -- engage in the cultural resignification of notions such as rights, equality, and difference, thus altering what counts as political. By highlighting simultaneously the cultural dimensions of the political and the political dimensions of the cultural, the book transcends the distinction between 'new' and 'old' social movements and thus significantly renews our understanding of them."--Publisher description
Politics of cultures
Civil society-- Latin America
Minorities-- Political activity-- Latin America
Political culture-- Latin America
Political participation-- Latin America
Social movements-- Latin America
Culture politique - Amérique latine
Minorités - Amérique latine - Activité politique