Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America

Takeshi Wada

ISBN 10: 0826368832 / ISBN 13: 9780826368836

Published by University of New Mexico Press, US, 2025

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As the very foundations of democracy are under stress in many parts of the world, this timely and important work examines the consequences of democracy and economic globalization on popular protests throughout Latin America. The arrival of democracy and globalization was a watershed moment for Latin America. It produced a changing political and economic environment, where democracy provided challengers with expanding political opportunities but globalization precipitated economic threats to livelihoods and human welfare. This changing environment removed the state from modes of political representation, such as urban labor movements and their affiliated mass-party organizations, while unleashing more pluralistic, heterogenous, and decentralized patterns of popular representation. Reducing its role in production, the state became mostly a regulator of economic activities. Arce and Wada's volume examines the consequences of democracy and globalization on popular protests in Latin America, theorizing a broad shift of popular politics involving reactive and proactive mobilizations. A collaboration of sixteen distinguished scholars with different specializations (economists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists) in both the Global North and South, the volume provides a unique collection of studies of protest events in ten Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, US
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826368832
• ISBN 13: 9780826368836
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 360 grams

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Synopsis

As the very foundations of democracy are under stress in many parts of the world, this timely and important work examines the consequences of democracy and economic globalization on popular protests throughout Latin America.

The arrival of democracy and globalization was a watershed moment for Latin America. It produced a changing political and economic environment, where democracy provided challengers with expanding political opportunities but globalization precipitated economic threats to livelihoods and human welfare. This changing environment removed the state from modes of political representation, such as urban labor movements and their affiliated mass-party organizations, while unleashing more pluralistic, heterogenous, and decentralized patterns of popular representation. Reducing its role in production, the state became mostly a regulator of economic activities.

Arce and Wada’s volume examines the consequences of democracy and globalization on popular protests in Latin America, theorizing a broad shift of popular politics involving reactive and proactive mobilizations. A collaboration of sixteen distinguished scholars with different specializations (economists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists) in both the Global North and South, the volume provides a unique collection of studies of protest events in ten Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.

About the Author

Moisés Arce is the Scott and Marjorie Cowen Chair in Latin American Social Sciences and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University.

Takeshi Wada is a professor in the Department of Area Studies and the director of the Latin American and Iberian Network for Academic Collaboration (LAINAC) at the University of Tokyo.