Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge

by Deborah J. Yashar

Overview

Deborah Yashar analyzes 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—providing insight into the fragility and unevenness of Latin America's third wave democracies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521534802
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/14/2005
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.02(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Part I. Theoretical Framing: 1. Questions, approaches, and cases; 2. Citizenship regimes, the state, and ethnic cleavages; 3. The argument: indigenous mobilization in Latin America; Part II. The Cases: 4. Ecuador: Latin America's strongest indigenous movement; 5. The Ecuadorian Andes and ECUARUNARI; 6. The Ecuadorian Amazon and CONFENAIE; 7. Forming the National Confederation, CONAIE; 8. Bolivia: strong regional movements; 9. The Bolivian Andes: the Kataristas and their legacy; 10. The Bolivian Amazon; 11. Peru: weak national movements and subnational variation; 12. Peru. Ecuador, and Bolivia: most similar cases; 13. No national indigenous movement: explaining the Peruvian anomaly; 14. Explaining subnational variation; 15. Conclusion: 16. Democracy and the postliberal challenge in Latin America.

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From the Publisher

"...a rigorous theoretical framework to a study of democratic issues related to ethnic movements...the book...will inspire students in international relations, political science, indigenous studies and sociology of development."
Political Studies Review

"well-researched"
American Journal of Sociology, William I. Robinson

"This is an excellent book and a worthy addition to the series of volumes on collective violence and political movements in the Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics."
Perspectives on Politics, Waltraud Queiser Morales, University of Central Florida

Editorial Reviews

"...a rigorous theoretical framework to a study of democratic issues related to ethnic movements...the book...will inspire students in international relations, political science, indigenous studies and sociology of development."
Political Studies Review

"well-researched"
American Journal of Sociology, William I. Robinson

"This is an excellent book and a worthy addition to the series of volumes on collective violence and political movements in the Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics."
Perspectives on Politics, Waltraud Queiser Morales, University of Central Florida

From the Publisher