Description
The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and within the streets, does not appropriately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century Latin The us. They show that most latest political activism within the region relies upon both confrontational collective action and civic participation at different moments. Operating within fluid, dynamic, and heterogeneous fields of contestation, activists have not been contained by governments or conventional political categories, but moderately have overflowed their boundaries, opening new democratic spaces or extending existing ones within the process. These essays offer fresh insight into how the politics of activism, participation, and protest are manifest in Latin The us these days at the same time as providing a new conceptual language and an interpretive framework for examining issues which might be important for the way forward for the region and beyond.
Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher, Leonardo Avritzer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Andrea Cornwall, Graciela DiMarco, Arturo Escobar, Raphael Hoetmer, Benjamin Junge, Luis E. Lander, Agustín Laó-Montes, Margarita López Maya, José Antonio Lucero, Graciela Monteagudo, Amalia Pallares, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Ana Claudia Teixeira, Millie Thayer