Contesting Citizenship in Latin America (Paperback)

Deborah J. Yashar

ISBN 10: 0521534801 / ISBN 13: 9780521534802

Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005

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Paperback. Indigenous people in Latin America have mobilized in unprecedented ways - demanding recognition, equal protection, and subnational autonomy. These are remarkable developments in a region where ethnic cleavages were once universally described as weak. Recently, however, indigenous activists and elected officials have increasingly shaped national political deliberations. Deborah Yashar explains the contemporary and uneven emergence of Latin American indigenous movements - addressing both why indigenous identities have become politically salient in the contemporary period and why they have translated into significant political organizations in some places and not others. She argues that ethnic politics can best be explained through a comparative historical approach that analyzes three factors: changing citizenship regimes, social networks, and political associational space. Her argument provides insight into the fragility and unevenness of Latin America's third wave democracies and has broader implications for the ways in which we theorize the relationship between citizenship, states, identity, and social action. In the twentieth century, indigenous people in Latin America started to speak out, mobilize, and organize in unprecedented ways. This book asks: why are indigenous people mobilizing now and why only in specific places? This book answers these questions with insight into their advancement and reform of democracy. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Contesting Citizenship in Latin America (Paperback)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521534801
• ISBN 13: 9780521534802
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

This book studies the indigenous political movements of Latin America in the twentieth century.

Informazioni sull?autore

Deborah J. Yashar is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s (Stanford University Press) as well as articles and chapters on democratization, ethnic politics, collective action, and globalization.