Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America [electronic resource] / edited by Paul Almeida, Allen Cordero Ulate.

Chapter 1. Social Movements across Latin America; Paul Almeida and Allen Cordero -- PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL ADVANCES -- Chapter 2. Social Movements and Progressive Regimes in Latin America: World Revolutions and Semiperipheral Development; Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alessandro Morosin and Alexis Álvarez -- Chapter 3. "There and Back Again": Latin American Social Movements and Reasserting the Powers of Structural Theories; Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley and Susan Eva Eckstein -- Chapter 4. State Repression and Mobilization in Latin America; David G. Ortiz -- Chapter 5. Protest Artifacts in the Mexican Social Movement Sector: Reflections on the "Stepchild" of Cultural Analysis; Ligia Tavera Fenollosa and Hank Johnston -- PART II: CRITICAL THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY POPULAR MOBILIZATION -- Chapter 6. Women's Movements in Latin America; Lynn Horton -- Chapter 7. Latin American Social Movements and the World Social Forum Process; Ian Breckenridge-Jackson, Natasha Radojcic, Ellen Reese, Elizabeth Schwarz, and Christopher Vito -- Chapter 8. Social Movements and Liberation Theology; Robert Mackin -- Chapter 9. Beyond Clientelism: The Piquetero Movement and the State in Argentina M; Federico M. Rossi -- PART III: INDIGENOUS BASED STRUGGLES ACROSS THE CONTINENT -- Chapter 10. Indigenous Peoples' Movements, Development, and Politics in Ecuador and Bolivia; Eduardo Silva -- Chapter 11. Sliding Doors of Opportunity: Zapatistas and their Cycle of Protest; María Inclán -- Chapter 12. Panama: Worker, Indigenous and Popular Uprising in Bocas del Toro (2011); Giovanni Beluche V. -- PART IV: URBAN BASED MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AMERICA -- Chapter 13. It Takes Two to Tango: Students, Political Parties and Protest in Chile (2005-2013); Marisa von Bülow and Germán Bidegain Ponte -- Chapter 14. Urban Social Movements in Venezuela; Sujatha Fernandes -- Chapter 15. Squatters and Politics in Montevideo at the Turn of the Century; María José Álvarez-Rivadulla -- PART V: ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS -- Chapter 16. Environmentalism of NGOs versus Environmentalism of the Poor? Mexico's Social Environmentalism Coalitions; David Dumoulin Kervran and Jean Foyer -- Chapter 17. Environmental Conflicts and Social Movements in Post-war El Salvador; Rafael E. Cartagena Cruz -- Chapter 18. Forest, Water and Struggle: Environmental Movements in Costa Rica; Allen Cordero Ulate -- PART VI. COUNTRY CASE STUDIES -- Chapter 19. Protest and Social Movements in Peru; Moises Arce -- Chapter 20. Social Movement Contention in Colombia, 1958-2014; Marcela Velasco -- Chapter 21. Social Movements in Nicaragua (1979-2014): An Exceptional Case; Salvador Martí i Puig -- Chapter 22. The Movement against the Coup in Honduras; Eugenio Sosa -- Chapter 23. Guatemalan social movements: From the peace process to a new cycle of popular struggle, (1996-2014); Simona Violetta Yagenova -- Chapter 24. Trends of Social Protest in Argentina: 1989-2007; Sebastián Pereyra, Germán J. Pérez and Federico L. Schuster -- Chapter 25. Brazilian Social Movements in the Last Decade; Maria Da Gloria Gohn.