Boulder, Colo. : Westview, 1998.

xiii, 459 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the cultural and the political in Latin American social movements / Sonia E. Alvarez, Evelina Dagnino, Arturo Escobar -- pt. 1. The cultural politics of citizenship, democracy, and the state. Culture, citizenship, and democracy : changing discourses and practices of the Latin American Left / Evelina Dagnino -- Social rights : conflicts and negotiations in contemporary Brazil / Maria Celia Paoli, Vera da Silva Telles -- New subjects of rights? Women's movements and the construction of citizenship in the "new democracies" / Verónica Schild -- The explosion of experience : the emergence of a new ethical-political principle in popular movements in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Sérgio Gregório Baierle -- pt. 2. The cultural politics of ethnicity, race, and gender. Ambiguity and contradiction in a radical popular movement / Jeffrey Rubin -- Indigenous movements as a challenge to the unified social movement paradigm for Guatemala / Kay B. Warren -- The process of black community organizing in the southern Pacific coast region of Colombia / Libia Grueso, Carlos Rosero, Arturo Escobar -- Black movements and the "politics of identity" in Brazil / Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha -- Beyond the domestic and the public : colonas participation in urban movements in Mexico City / Miguel Díaz-Barriga -- Defrocking the Vatican : feminism's secular project / Jean Franco -- pt. 3. Globalization, transnationalism, and civil society. Latin American feminisms "go global" : trends of the 1990s and challenges for the new millennium / Sonia E. Alvarez -- Cybercultural politics : political activism at a distance in a transnational world / Gustavo Lins Ribeiro -- The globalization of culture and the new civil society / George Yúdice -- Rethinking the spatialities of social movements : questions of (b)orders, culture, and politics in global times / David Slater -- pt. 4. Theoretical and methodological reflections on the cultural and the political in Latin American social movements. Toward a culture of participation and citizenship : challenges for a more equitable world / Elizabeth Jelin -- Final comments : challenges to cultural studies in Latin America / Paulo J. Krischke -- Third World or planetary conflicts? / Alberto Melucci -- Where To? What Next? / Mary Louise Pratt.

Social movements -- Latin America.

Civil society -- Latin America.

Political participation -- Latin America.

Political culture -- Latin America.

Minorities -- Political activity -- Latin America.

Alvarez, Sonia E., 1956-

Dagnino, Evelina.

Escobar, Arturo, 1951-

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