Collective empowerment in Latin America : indigenous peasant movements and political transformation / Gerardo Otero and Efe Can Gürcan.
"This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down, from state interventions responding to such pressure. Reflecting on the advancement of indigenous and peasant movements in Latin America since the neoli...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2024.
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| Series: | Routledge critical development studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : from individual agency to collective empowerment theory
- Dependent development and beyond : transnational globalism or internationalist nationalism?
- From methodological individualism to collective empowerment
- Democracy, civil society, and the state
- Class or identity politics? A false dichotomy
- Collective empowerment theory
- Forging democracies : indigenous struggles for autonomy
- Food sovereignty collective empowerment : the indigenous peasantry in Argentina
- Articulating indigeneity and class : rise of the Movimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia
- The landless workers' movement of Brazil : independence and autonomy
- Was there a left turn in Latin America? Building a social democracy index
- Conclusion : toward a popular-democratic, socialist alternative.