The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)

Since the re-democratization of much of Latin America in the 1980s and a regional wave of anti-austerity protests in the 1990s, social movement studies has become an important part of sociological, political, and anthropological scholarship on the region. The subdiscipline has framed debates about formal and informal politics, spatial and relational processes, as well as economic changes in Latin America. While there is an abundant literature on particular movements in different countries across the region, there is limited coverage of the approaches, debates, and theoretical understandings of social movement studies applied to Latin America. In The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements, Federico M. Rossi presents a survey of the broad range of theoretical perspectives on social movements in Latin America. Bringing together a wide variety of viewpoints, the Handbook includes five sections: theoretical approaches to social movements, as applied to Latin America; processes and dynamics of social movements; major social movements in the region; ideational and strategic dimensions of social movements; and the relationship between political institutions and social movements. Covering key social movements and social dynamics in Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements is an indispensable reference for any scholar interested in social movements, protest, contentious politics, and Latin American studies. Cover Page Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents About the Editor About the Contributors Introduction 1. Multiple Paradigms for Understanding a Mobilized Region Part I: Theoretical Perspectives 2. Marxist Theories of Latin American Social Movements 3. Resource Mobilization and Political Process Theories in Latin America 4. New Social Movements in Latin America and the Changing Socio-​Political Matrix 5. Relational Approaches to Social Movements in (and beyond) Latin America 6. Network Approaches to Latin America Social Movements 7. Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Latin American Social Movements 8. Decolonizing Approaches to Latin American Social Movements Part II: Main Processes and Dynamics 9. Protest Waves in Latin America: Facilitating Conditions and Outcomes 10. Social Movements and Nationalism in Latin America 11. Social Movements and Revolutions in Latin America: A Complex Relationship 12. Social Movements under Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America 13. Social Movements and Democratization Processes in Latin America 14. Social Movements and Capitalist Models of Development in Latin America 15. Social Movements and Globalization in Latin America 16. Movements and Territorial Conflicts in Latin America 17. Demobilization Processes in Latin America Part III: Main Social Movements 18. Transformations of Workers’ Mobilization in Latin America 19. Peasant Movements in Recent Latin American History 20. Women’s Movements in Latin America: From Elite Organizing to Intersectional Mass Mobilization 21. Indigenous Movements in Latin America: Characteristics and Contributions 22. Afro-​Social Movements and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Latin America 23. Student Movements in Latin America: Pushing the Education Agenda and Beyond 24. Lesbian and Gay Social Movements in Latin America 25. Human Rights Movements across Latin America 26. Environmental Mobilization in Latin America: Beyond the Lenses of Social Movements 27. Urban Social Movements and the Politics of Inclusion in Latin America 28. Anti-​Corruption Social Mobilization in Latin America 29. Consumer (Rights) Movements in Latin America 30. Autonomist Movements in Latin America 31. Transnational Social Movements in Latin America 32. Right-​Wing Movements in Latin America 33. Revolutionary Movements and Guerrillas in Latin America: From Revolutions to revolutions Part IV: Ideational and Strategic Dimensions of Social Movements 34. Social Movements in Latin America: The Cultural Dimension 35. Identity in Latin American Social Movements 36. Ideas, Ideology, and Citizenship of Social Movements 37. Religious Groups and Social Movements in Latin America 38. Education, Pedagogy, and Social Movements in Latin America 39. Repertoires of Contention across Latin America 40. Shifting Geographies of Activism and the Spatial Logics of Latin American Social Movements 41. Strengths and Blind Spots of Digital Activism in Latin America: Mapping Actors, Tools, and Theories Part V: Institutional Politics and Social Movements 42. Social Movements and Party Politics: Popular Mobilization and the Reciprocal Structuring of Political Representation in Latin America 43. Social Movement Activism, Informal Politics, and Clientelism in Latin America 44. Legal Mobilization: Social Movements and the Judicial System across Latin America 45. Social Movements and Participatory Institutions in Latin America 46. Social Movements and Modes of Institutionalization Index