Exploring Revolution: Essays on Latin American Insurgency and Revolutionary Theory

by Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley

Overview

This series of essays on insurgency and revolution focuses on events in Latin America since 1956. The contributors discuss revolutionary theory, the nature of social movements and models of social action. Topics raised include terror, guerilla regimes, mobilizing peasants, and the vulnerability of regimes to revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315489957
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/26/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	923 KB

About the Author

TIMOTHY P. WICKHAM-CROWLEY is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, where he also advises undergraduates as Associate Director of the Latin American Studies Program. His teaching and research interests lie generally in comparative political sociology and Latin America, with a special focus on social movements, revolutions, development, and inequality., Wickham-Crowley has published several artic1es on guerrillas, terror, and revolution, and is the author of the forthcoming work, Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America (1991). He is currently studying and writing on the comparative experience of development and underdevelopment in the New World since 1500.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures, Preface, Part One. The Béret and the Sandal: Exploring the Guerrilla-Peasant Encounter, 1. The Revolutionary Process and Theories of Social Movements, 2. The Rise and Sometimes Fall of Guerrilla Governments in Latin America, 3. Terror and Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America, 1956-70, 4. Ideology and Revolution? The Limitations of Consciousness Raising in Revolutionary Struggles, Part Two. Where Theory Contempiates Practice: Exploring the Outeornes of Theoretical and Revolutionary Conflicts, 5. Revolutionary Outcomes and Theories of Revolution, 6. What Makes Peasants Insurrectionary?, 7. Of Peasant-based Rebellions and Weak Regimes: Adapting Revolutionary Theories to Latin American Realities, Index