Meaningful Resistance: Market Reforms and the Roots of Social Protest in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781107124851 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str.

Erica Simmons

Opis

Exploring marketization, local practices, and protests, this book shows how market-driven subsistence threats can be powerful loci for resistance movements.

Recenzje

'In Meaningful Resistance, Erica Simmons directs our attention to the causal significance of grievances by examining the meaning actors ascribe to specific grievances, in this case threats to subsistence goods, and how this motivates actors toward certain actions at particular times and places. She demonstrates the power of meaning by comparing two indigenous social movements: opposition to water privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and opposition to rising tortilla prices in Mexico. This study reflects extensive field work in these two countries, including ethnographic observation, semi-structured and open-ended interviews, and historical research of primary sources.' Bradley W. Williams, Mobilization

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Water in Cochabamba; 3. ¡El agua es nuestra, carajo! The origins of the Bolivian Water Wars; 4. Corn in Mexico; 5. Sin maíz no hay país: the Mexican tortillazo protests; 6. Conclusions.