The Middle Class in Emerging Societies
The Middle Class in Emerging Societies

Author: Leslie L. Marsh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-23

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1317510763

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This volume examines the discursive construction of the meanings and lifestyle practices of the middle class in the rapidly transforming economies of Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, focusing on the social, political and cultural implications at local and global levels. While drawing a comparative analysis of what it means to be middle class in these different locations, the essays offer a connective understanding of the middle class phenomenon in emerging market economies and lay the groundwork for future research on emerging, transitional societies. The book addresses three key dimensions: the discursive creation of the middle class, the construction of the cultural identity through consumption practices and lifestyle choices, and the social, political and cultural consequences related to globalization and neoliberalism.

Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America
Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America

Author: Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-26

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0691190208

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In this comparative survey of guerrilla movements in Latin America, Timothy Wickham-Crowley explores the origins and outcomes of rural insurgencies in nearly a dozen cases since 1956. Focusing on the personal backgrounds of the guerrillas themselves and on national social conditions, the author explains why guerrillas emerged strongly in certain countries but not others. He considers, for example, under what circumstances guerrillas acquire military strength and why they do--or do not--secure substantial support from the peasantry in rural areas.

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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE

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Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Handbook of Happiness Research in Latin America
Handbook of Happiness Research in Latin America

Author: Mariano Rojas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-09

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 9401772037

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This book presents original happiness research from and about a region that shows unexpectedly high levels of happiness. Even when Latin American countries cannot be classified as high-income countries their population do enjoy, on average, high happiness levels. The book draws attention to some important factors that contribute to the happiness of people, such as: relational values, human relations, solidarity networks, the role of the family, and the availability and gratifying using of leisure time. In a world where happiness is acquiring greater relevance as a final social and personal aim both the academic community and the social-actors and policy-makers community would benefit from Happiness Research in Latin America.

A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America
A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America

Author: Sebastián L. Mazzuca

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-02-11

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1108871577

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Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the sequence of development - Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region's quandary. States can make democracy, but so too can democracy make States. Thus, the starting point of political developments is less important than whether the State-democracy relationship is a virtuous cycle, triggering causal mechanisms that reinforce each other. However, the State-democracy interaction generates a virtuous cycle only under certain macroconditions. In Latin America, the State-democracy interaction has not generated a virtuous cycle: problems regarding the State prevent full democratization and problems of democracy prevent the development of state capacity. Moreover, multiple macroconditions provide a foundation for this distinctive pattern of State-democracy interaction. The suboptimal political equilibrium in contemporary Latin America is a robust one.

Makers of Democracy
Makers of Democracy

Author: A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2019-03-28

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1478003294

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In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources ranging from training manuals and oral histories to school and business archives, López-Pedreros shows how the Colombian middle class created a model of democracy based on free-market ideologies, private property rights, material inequality, and an emphasis on a masculine work culture. This model, which naturalized class and gender hierarchies, provided the groundwork for Colombia's later adoption of neoliberalism and inspired the emergence of alternate models of democracy and social hierarchies in the 1960s and 1970s that helped foment political radicalization. By highlighting the contested relationships between class, gender, economics, and politics, López-Pedreros theorizes democracy as a historically unstable practice that exacerbated multiple forms of domination, thereby prompting a rethinking of the formation of democracies throughout the Americas.

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Publisher: Editorial Ink

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Total Pages: 248

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Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis
Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis

Author: Alejandro Grimson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-16

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1000802329

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This book explores the dynamics of the "middle-class global rebellion" born of the frustration at declining living standards. Addressing narratives constructed by different social and political agents and groups, it examines contexts of social crisis in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, understanding the middle classes as a set of complex and conflicting political relationships. With attention to the manner in which people create "situated habits", consolidating new expectations and desires through a concrete biography, it analyzes continuities and changes in classed self-perceptions based on performative use. With new perspectives, including historical and intersectional approaches, Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis transcends disciplinary boundaries to explore the hybridity of research methods and techniques and challenge established analytical frameworks. It will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in class and questions of class identity.

Foreign Policy and Human Rights
Foreign Policy and Human Rights

Author: R. J. Vincent

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-10-16

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0521323967

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This is a book about the issue of human rights and the responses from the international community.