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OverviewMany countries in Latin America have experienced both rapid urbanization and military involvement in politics. Yet few studies examine how military regimes react to the political pressures that wide-spread urban poverty creates or how the poor operate under authoritative rule. Henry Dietz investigates Lima's poor during the ""revolution"" of General Juan Velasco (1968-1975). His study examines both the structural conditions promoting poverty and the individual consequences of being poor. The poor join together in several ways to resolve politicized communal needs; Dietz's data indicate that the local neighborhood plays a crucial role in determining modes of involvement. Considerable attention is given to government attempts to encourage and control political activities by the poor. Dietz analyzes the failure of SINAMOS, the regime's mobilization agency, and in so doing raises general questions about corporatist solutions to social problems. The wide range of original survey, informant, and ethnographic data provides much new information on elite-mass relationships in contemporary Latin America. Dietz's research illuminates much that is of concern to scholars and planners dealing with urbanization, poverty, and social policy formation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Henry A. DietzPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Volume: 51 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781477307663ISBN 10: 1477307664 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 01 April 1980 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I: Urbanization, Participation, and Poverty 1. Participation and Authoritarian Rule: The Urban Poor and the Military in Peru 2. The Velasco Administration 3. Urbanization, the Urban Poor, and Poor Neighborhoods 4. Six Low-Income Neighborhoods Part II: The Urban Poor and Their Spokesmen 5. Poverty, the Pobladores, and Their Neighborhoods 6. Modes of Participation and the Community Activist: An Empirical Analysis Part III: The Urban Poor and the Revolutionary Government 7. National-Level Political Demand-Making 8. SINAMOS, the Pobladores, and Corporatist Participation Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationHenry A. Dietz Professor Emeritus and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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