The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements

Social movement studies has become an important part of sociological, political, and anthropological scholarship on Latin America since the 1980s and 1990s. The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements provides a survey of the broad range of theoretical perspectives on social movements in Latin America, covering key social movements and social dynamics from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century.

Format: Hardback
Length: 832 pages
Publication date: 12 May 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Social movement studies has emerged as a significant field of inquiry in the study of Latin America since the re-democratization of the region in the 1980s and the emergence of anti-austerity protests in the 1990s. This subdiscipline has played a crucial role in shaping debates about formal and informal politics, spatial and relational processes, and economic transformations in Latin America. While there is a wealth of literature on specific movements in different countries across the region, there is limited attention paid to the approaches, debates, and theoretical frameworks of social movement studies applied to Latin America. In response to this gap, Federico M. Rossi has authored The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements, a comprehensive survey of the diverse range of theoretical perspectives on social movements in Latin America. This Handbook brings together a wide array of viewpoints, encompassing theoretical approaches to social movements, their application in Latin America, processes and dynamics of social movements, prominent social movements in the region, ideational and strategic dimensions of social movements, and the interplay between political institutions and social movements. Spanning key social movements and social dynamics in Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements serves as an indispensable reference for scholars interested in social movements, protest, contentious politics, and Latin American studies.

Weight: 1576g
Dimension: 181 x 256 x 60 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780190870362