Meaningful resistance : market reforms and the roots of social protest in Latin America / Erica S . Simmons, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Simmons, Erica S., author.
2016
HN110.5.A8 S5526 2016 (Mapit)
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Title Meaningful resistance : market reforms and the roots of social protest in Latin America / Erica S . Simmons, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Author Simmons, Erica S., author.
ISBN 9781107562059 (paperback)
1107562058 (paperback)
9781107124851 (hardcover)
1107124859 (hardcover)
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2016]
Language English
Description xvii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number HN110.5.A8 S5526 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.48/4098
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Series Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
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1. Introduction
2. Water in Cochabamba
3. ¡El Agua es Nuestra, Carajo! The origins of the Bolivian water wars
4. Corn in Mexico
5. Sin Maiz No Hay Pais: the Mexican tortillazo protests
6. Conclusions.

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