Latin American Social Movements and a New Left Consensus: State and Civil Society Challenges to Neoliberal Globalization

Autor: Jennifer Leigh Disney, Virginia S. Williams
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: New Political Science. 36:1-31
ISSN: 1469-9931
0739-3148
DOI: 10.1080/07393148.2013.864897
Popis: This article explores the shift to the left in Latin America within the context of understanding power relations among, within, and between social movements and the state. We examine the emergence and development of social movement resistance to neoliberal globalization in Latin America over the past two decades, as well as how charismatic leaders of the left have captured state power. Through an analysis of the Zapatista and Appista Movements in Mexico, the Piqueteros and workers' movements in Argentina, the Chavistas in Venezuela, and the Aymara coca-growers and indigenous movements in Bolivia, as well as an examination of presidential behavior and state power in these countries, this article describes and enumerates the alternative models of power in use in Latin America today, arguing that a combination of strategies working both with and autonomously from the state works best to achieve leftist ends. The social movements associated with the shift to the left in Latin America today are adopting not on...
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