Issue 153:

Globalizing Resistance:
The New Politics of Social Movements in Latin America

Issue 153, March 2007, Volume 34, Number 2
Issue Editors: Harry Vanden, Glen Kuecker & Richard Stahler-Sholk

The last two decades have seen an upsurge of Latin American social movements.  They have challenged the neoliberal paradigm and the governments that would impose it.

A little over ten years ago, Latin American Perspectives put forward a two-part issue on social movements.  Today’s grassroots movements are flourishing in a new context of failed neoliberal policies, frustration with procedural democracy that lacks substantive social justice, and a post-Cold War left seeking new horizontal and participatory ways of doing politics.

Contributors to this issue illuminate patterns in these movements that are challenging economic and political elites.  Essays offer fresh research and analysis on the origins, strategies, and outcomes of contemporary social movements in Latin America:

 

·Stahler-Sholk, Vanden and Kuecker
Globalizing Resistance

 

·Vanden
|Social Movements and Hegemony

 

·Spronk and Webber
Natural Resource Contention – Bolivia

 

·Stahler-Sholk
Zapatista Autonomy Movement

 

·Mora
The “Other Campaign”

 

·Swords
Neo-Zapatista Networ Politics

 

·Kuecker
Fighting for the Forests – Ecuador

 

·Swanger
Feminist Community Building – Ciudad Juárez

 

·Issa
Mística and Mobilization in Brazil

 

·Villalón
Argentina’s Social Movements, 1993-2006

 

·Alcañiz and Scheier
MTL Piqueteros and the Communist Party in Argentina