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OverviewMeaningful Resistance explores the origins and dynamics of resistance to markets through an examination of two social movements that emerged to voice and channel opposition to market reforms. Protests against water privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and rising corn prices in Mexico City, Mexico, offer a lens to analyze the mechanisms by which perceived, market-driven threats to material livelihood can prompt resistance. By exploring connections among marketization, local practices, and political protest, the book shows how the material and the ideational are inextricably linked in resistance to subsistence threats. When people perceive that markets have put subsistence at risk, material and symbolic worlds are both at stake; citizens take to the streets not only to defend their pocketbooks, but also their conceptions of community. The book advances contemporary scholarship by showing how attention to grievances in general, and subsistence resources in particular, can add explanatory leverage to analyses of contentious politics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Erica S. Simmons (University of Wisconsin, Madison)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9781107124851ISBN 10: 1107124859 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 01 June 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Water in Cochabamba; 3. ¡El agua es nuestra, carajo! The origins of the Bolivian Water Wars; 4. Corn in Mexico; 5. Sin maíz no hay país: the Mexican tortillazo protests; 6. Conclusions.ReviewsToo often, in the study of contention, the material and the cultural have been seen as incompatible forms of explanation. In this empirically rich, theoretically important book, Simmons shows how the material and ideational were fused to catalyze popular protests over water in Cochabamba and rising corn prices in Mexico. In doing so, she has made it much harder for scholars of contention to ignore the causal force of grievances or to depict material threats in strictly economic terms. Douglas McAdam, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology, Stanford University In Meaningful Resistance, Erica Simmons shows how cultural and symbolic meanings related to subsistence goods shape patterns of social resistance to market liberalization. Drawing from rich ethnographic research on social protests around water privatization in Bolivia and corn prices in Mexico, Simmons skilfully weaves together material grievances and cultural meanings to explain the origins and dynamics of protest mobilization. This book breaks new ground in its theoretical integration of cultural and structural approaches to the study of social movements, and it is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how material grievances become politicized. This is an important book that deserves to be widely read. Kenneth M. Roberts, Cornell University Author InformationErica S. Simmons is a Lyons Family Faculty Scholar and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her dissertation, on which the book is based, was awarded the Latin American Studies Association's 2013 Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright Commission and the Mellon Foundation, among others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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