What justice? whose justice? : fighting for fairness in Latin America / edited by Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley.

Following up on issues raised in 'Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements', these essays elucidate how conceptions of justice are socially constructed and contested and historically contingent, shaped by people's values and institutionally grounded in real-life expe...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Other Authors: Eckstein, Susan, 1942- (Editor), Wickham-Crowley, Timothy P., 1951- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Struggles for justice in Latin America / Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley
  • Social inequality, civil society, and the limits of citizenship in Latin America / Philip Oxhorn
  • An exception to Chilean exceptionalism? The historical role of Chile's judiciary / Lisa Hilbink
  • Presidential crises and democratic accountability in Latin America, 1990-1999 / Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
  • The vicious cycle of inequality in Latin America / Terry Lynn Karl
  • Perpetrators' confessions : truth, reconciliation, and justice in Argentina / Leigh A. Payne
  • Colombia : does injustice cause violence? / Marc W. Chernick
  • Progressive pragmatism as a governance model : an in-depth look at Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1989-2000 / Sybil Delaine Rhodes
  • Citizen responses to conflict and political crisis in Peru : informal politics in Ayacucho / David Scott Palmer
  • Social justice and the new indigenous politics : an analysis of Guatemala, the Central Andes, and Chiapas / John A. Peeler
  • The war of the peace : indigenous women's struggle for social justice in Chiapas, Mexico / June Nash
  • Reflections on remembrance : voices from an Ixcán village / Beatriz Manz.