Cultures in Conflict (eBook)

Social Movements and the State in Peru

Susan C. Stokes (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
200 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91623-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and survey research she digs deeply into the popular culture of the social activists and shantytown residents she studies. The result is a penetrating look at how social movements evolve, how poor people construct independent political cultures, and how the ideological domination of oppressed classes can shatter.This work is a new and vital chapter in the growing literature on the formation of social movements. It chronicles the transformation of Peru's poor from a culture of deference and clientelism in the late 1960s to a population mobilized for radical political action today.In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and</DIV

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 20th century peruvian history • civilian rule • class consciousness • class difference • Clientelism • contemporary peru • deference • ethnography • hegemony • Ideology • Independent • Latin American History • lower class politics • mass public • nation state • Oligarchy • oppressed classes • Oppression • participant observation • Peru • Peruvian history • Political culture • Politics • Poor people • popular culture • Poverty • radical political thought • radical politics • shantytown • social activists • Social Movements • State • urban poor
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91623-9 / 0520916239
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91623-4 / 9780520916234