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Social movements and leftist governments in Latin America : confrontation or co-optation?
Addresses an issue that is crucial for politics in the region today but has yet to be properly analysed - specifically, what is the position of the social movements after progressive governments take power.
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Social Movements, Hegemony, and New Forms of Resistance
In Latin America, new social movements are vigorously and creatively engaging in grassroots organization and local and national mobilizations. Social movements in Bolivia, Brazil, and elsewhere have challenged the conduct of politics in their countries and the region. Their growth and militancy have generated whole new repertoires of action. Indeed, they raise the possibility of at least some form of \"rule from below.\" They have left the traditional twentieth-century parties far behind to create a nonauthoritarian, participatory political culture. Using existing political space to maximum effect, they are substantially strengthening participatory democratic practice and significantly altering political life. Less clear is whether they are, as Gramsci might conclude, coming together in a new cycle of subaltern actions that can break down the hegemony historically exercised by Latin America's ruling classes.
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A Second Look at Latin American Social Movements
It has been said here before, and accurately, that antisystemic struggles should not be circumscribed solely to what the orthodox call the infrastructure or base of capitalist social relations. The fact that we hold that the central nucleus of capitalist domination is in the ownership of the means of production does not mean that we ignore (in the double sense of being unaware of and not giving importance to) other spaces of domination. It is clear to us that transformations must not focus only on material conditions. Therefore for us there is no hierarchy of realms; we do not hold that the struggle for land has priority over gender struggles or that the latter are more important than recognition and respect for difference. We think, rather, that all emphases are necessary and that we should be humble and recognize that there is currently no organization or movement that could presume to cover all aspects of antisystemic, that is, anticapitalist, struggle. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]
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Introduction: A Second Look at Latin American Social Movements: Globalizing Resistance to the Neoliberal Paradigm
As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, the role of Latin American social movements in resisting policies imposed by global capitalism and the local elites who facilitate its penetration continue to be of great importance (see Alvarez, Dagnino, and Escobar, 1998; Eckstein and Wickham-Crowley, 2003; Ballvé and Prashad, 2006; Johnston and Almeida, 2006; and Stahler-Sholk, Vanden, and Kuecker, 2008). Their impact can be seen in several arenas: (1) They have been fundamental in spearheading the expansion of citizenship, the use of public space for popular purposes, and the strengthening of democratic participation (see Lievesley, 1999; Avritzer, 2002), including an insistence on recognition of collective rights (for example, those of indigenous peoples) that questions the limits of liberal notions of democracy (Otero, 2003; Yashar, 2005; Zibechi, 2005; 2006). (2) They have disrupted the Washington Consensus on neoliberal economic policies in the region (Hershberg and Rosen, 2006), and in the process they have developed transnational modes of social-movement organizing that challenge old patterns of Northern nongovernmental organization (NGO) hegemony (Smith, Chatfield, and Pagnucco, 1997; Veltmeyer, 2007; Thayer, 2009).
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