Voices of Latin America : social movements and the new activism / edited by Tom Gatehouse.

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: Rugby, Warwickshire, UK : Clun, Shropshire, UK : Practical Action Publishing Ltd ; Latin America Bureau, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xiv, 285 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cmISBN:

9781909014237
1909014230
9781909014244
1909014249

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DDC classification:

303.484098 23

LOC classification:

HN110.5 .V65 2019

Contents:

Introduction: Living life on their own terms - Fighting machismo: women on the front-line - LGBT rights: the rainbow tide - The student revolution - Indigenous peoples and the rights of nature - The hydroelectric threat to the Amazon Basin - Mining and communities - State violence, policing, and paramilitaries - Spaces of everyday resistance: the right to the city - The new journalism - now the people make the news - Cultural resistance.

Summary: These are uncertain times in Latin America. Popular faith in democracy has been shaken; traditional political parties and institutions are stagnating, and there is a growing right-wing extremism overtaking some governments. Yet, in recent years, autonomous social movements have multiplied and thrived. This book presents voices of these movement protagonists themselves, as they describe the major issues, conflicts, and campaigns for social justice in Latin America today. Latin America Bureau, a London-based, independent organization providing news and analysis on the region, spoke to people from fourteen countries, from Mexico to the Southern Cone. The book captures the voices indigenous activists, fighting oil drilling in their homelands; mothers from favelas seeking justice for their children killed by police; opponents of large-scale mining projects; independent journalists working, at great personal risk, to expose corruption and human rights violations; women and LGBT people confronting violence and discrimination; and students demanding their right to a free, universal and high-quality education system. Though their locations and causes are disparate, these people and their movements share learning and activism, and their cooperation helps to link the movements across national borders. Voices of Latin America is essential reading for students, travelers, journalists—anyone with an interest in social justice movements in Latin America.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Living life on their own terms -
Fighting machismo: women on the front-line -
LGBT rights: the rainbow tide -
The student revolution -
Indigenous peoples and the rights of nature -
The hydroelectric threat to the Amazon Basin -
Mining and communities -
State violence, policing, and paramilitaries -
Spaces of everyday resistance: the right to the city -
The new journalism - now the people make the news -
Cultural resistance.

These are uncertain times in Latin America. Popular faith in democracy has been shaken; traditional political parties and institutions are stagnating, and there is a growing right-wing extremism overtaking some governments. Yet, in recent years, autonomous social movements have multiplied and thrived. This book presents voices of these movement protagonists themselves, as they describe the major issues, conflicts, and campaigns for social justice in Latin America today. Latin America Bureau, a London-based, independent organization providing news and analysis on the region, spoke to people from fourteen countries, from Mexico to the Southern Cone.

The book captures the voices indigenous activists, fighting oil drilling in their homelands; mothers from favelas seeking justice for their children killed by police; opponents of large-scale mining projects; independent journalists working, at great personal risk, to expose corruption and human rights violations; women and LGBT people confronting violence and discrimination; and students demanding their right to a free, universal and high-quality education system. Though their locations and causes are disparate, these people and their movements share learning and activism, and their cooperation helps to link the movements across national borders. Voices of Latin America is essential reading for students, travelers, journalists—anyone with an interest in social justice movements in Latin America.