@article{857306,
      recid = {857306},
      author = {Simmons, Erica S.,},
      title = {Meaningful resistance : market reforms and the roots of  social protest in Latin America /},
      pages = {xvii, 226 pages :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/857306},
}