Private Politics and Peasant Mobilization

Private Politics and Peasant Mobilization

Author: Maria-Therese Gustafsson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-13

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 3319607561

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This book explores how different corporate governance strategies affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an area’s population is faced with the arrival of the extraction industry. Drawing on ethnographic research into Peruvian mining localities, the author analyses a series of relationships which are characterized by confrontations, clientelism, demobilization and strategic collaboration. By presenting a detailed account of micro practices and showing how these processes are interpreted by different groups, Gustafsson offers a refined understanding of the multiple layers and informal workings of power between transnational corporations and local communities.


Land, Protest, and Politics

Land, Protest, and Politics

Author: Gabriel A. Ondetti

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9780271033532

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"Analyzes the development of the movement for agrarian reform in Brazil, and attempts to explain the major moments of change in its growth trajectory, from the late 1970s to 2006"--Provided by publisher.


Rural Social Movements in Latin America

Rural Social Movements in Latin America

Author: Carmen Diana Deere

Publisher:

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780813064826

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All across Latin America, rural peoples are organizing in support of broadly distinct but interrelated issues. Food sovereignty, agrarian reform, indigenous and women's rights, sustainable development, fair trade, and immigration issues are the focus of a large number of social movements found in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Brazil, and Peru. The contributors to Rural Social Movements in Latin America include academic researchers as well as social movement leaders who are seeking to effect change in their countries and communities. As a group they are at the forefront of some of the most critical environmental, social, and political issues of the day. This volume highlights the central role these movements play in opposition to the neoliberal model of development and offers fresh insights on emerging alternatives at the local, national, and hemispheric level. It also illustrates and analyzes the similarities--notably the struggle for sustainable livelihoods--as well as the difference among these various peasant, indigenous, and rural women's movements. A co-publication with the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies


A Tale of Two Villages

A Tale of Two Villages

Author: Alina Mungiu

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9639776785

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This dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceauşescu’s birthplace. The two villages capture among themselves nearly a century of dramatic transformation and social engineering, ending up with their charged heritage in the present European Union. "One of Romania’s foremost social critics, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi offers a valuable look at several decades of policy that marginalized that country’s rural population, from the 1918 land reform to the post-1989 property restitution. Illustrating her arguments with a close comparison of two contrasting villages, she describes the actions of a long series of “predatory elites,” from feudal landowners through the Communist Party through post-communist leaders, all of whom maintained the rural population’s dependency. A forceful concluding chapter shows that its prospects for improvement are scarcely better within the EU. Romania’s villagers have an eminent and spirited advocate in the author.”


Women & Guerrilla Movements

Women & Guerrilla Movements

Author: Karen Kampwirth

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0271045892

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The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the &"new man.&" But, in fact, many of the &"new men&" who participated in these movements were not men. Thousands of them were women. This book aims to show why a full understanding of revolutions needs to take account of gender. Karen Kampwirth writes here about the women who joined the revolutionary movements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the Mexican state of Chiapas, about how they became guerrillas, and how that experience changed their lives. In the last chapter she compares what happened in these countries with Cuba in the 1950s, where few women participated in the guerrilla struggle. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, Kampwirth examines the political, structural, ideological, and personal factors that allowed many women to escape from the constraints of their traditional roles and led some to participate in guerrilla activities. Her emphasis on the experiences of revolutionaries adds a new dimension to the study of revolution, which has focused mainly on explaining how states are overthrown.


Popular Movements in Autocracies

Popular Movements in Autocracies

Author: Guillermo Trejo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-13

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0521197724

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A new explanation of the rise, development and demise of social movements and cycles of protest in autocracies.


Political Mobilization of the Venezuelan Peasant

Political Mobilization of the Venezuelan Peasant

Author: John Duncan Powell

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780674686267

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In the first part of this pioneering study, John Duncan Powell traces the formation of a successful alliance between the peasant masses, who sought land reform, and a small urban elite, which desperately needed a political power base. Part II is devoted to an empirical structural-functional analysis of the alliance.


Mapping Mass-mobilization

Mapping Mass-mobilization

Author: Olga Onuch

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781349488766

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Through a paired comparison of two moments of mass mobilization, in Ukraine and Argentina, focusing on the role of different actors involved, this text maps out a multi-layered sequence of events leading up to mass mobilization. Moments of mass mobilization astound us. As a sea of protesters fills the streets, observers scramble to understand this extraordinary political act by 'ordinary' citizens. This study presents a paired comparison of two 'moments' of mass mobilization, in Ukraine and Argentina. The two cases are compared and analyzed on a cross-temporal and an inter-regional basis, thereby offering two critical cases in response to assumptions that the processes and patterns of mobilization, and democratization politics more broadly, are region specific. This study challenges political science's focus on elites and structural factors in the study of political participation during democratization.


The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe

The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9004442243

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The contributions in this volume, written by historians, political scientists and linguists, shed new light on the political development of the nationality question in Europe during the First World War and its aftermath, covering theoretical developments and debates, social mobilization and cultural perspectives.