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

Meaningful Resistance explores the origins and dynamics of resistance to markets through an examination of two social...
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Author: Erica S. Simmons
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Language: English
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Meaningful Resistance: Market Reforms and the Roots of Social Protest in Latin America by Simmons, Erica S.

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

Dhs. 165.96

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

Dhs. 165.96
Author: Erica S. Simmons
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Meaningful Resistance explores the origins and dynamics of resistance to markets through an examination of two social movements that emerged to voice and channel opposition to market reforms. Protests against water privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and rising corn prices in Mexico City, Mexico, offer a lens to analyze the mechanisms by which perceived, market-driven threats to material livelihood can prompt resistance. By exploring connections among marketization, local practices, and political protest, the book shows how the material and the ideational are inextricably linked in resistance to subsistence threats. When people perceive that markets have put subsistence at risk, material and symbolic worlds are both at stake; citizens take to the streets not only to defend their pocketbooks, but also their conceptions of community. The book advances contemporary scholarship by showing how attention to grievances in general, and subsistence resources in particular, can add explanatory leverage to analyses of contentious politics.

Author: Erica S. Simmons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/31/2016
Pages: 230
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.02w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781107562059

About the Author
Simmons, Erica S.: - Erica S. Simmons is a Lyons Family Faculty Scholar and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her dissertation, on which the book is based, was awarded the Latin American Studies Association's 2013 Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright Commission and the Mellon Foundation, among others.

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