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Latin American and Caribbean communities and civil societies are undergoing a rapid process of transformation. Instead of pervasive social atomization, political apathy, and hollowed-out democracies, which have become the norm in some parts of the world, this region is witnessing an emerging collaboration between community, civil society, and government that is revitalizing democracy.
This book argues that a key explanation lies in the powerful and positive relationship between community and civil society that exists in the region. The ideas of community and civil society tend to be studied separately, as analytically distinct concepts however, this volume seeks to explore their potential to work together. A unique contribution of the work is the space for dialogue it creates between the social sciences and the humanities. Many of the studies included in the volume are based on primary fieldwork and place-based case studies. Others relate literature, music and film to important theoretical works, providing a new direction in interdisciplinary studies, and highlighting the role that the arts play in community revival and broader processes of social change.
A truly multi-disciplinary book bridging established notions of civil society and community through an authentically interdisciplinary approach to the topic.
Contents
Section I: Concepts
Chapter One: Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society
Gordana Yovanovich and Roberta Rice
Chapter Two: Civil Society from the Inside Out: Community, Organization and the Challenge of Political Influence
Philip Oxhorn
Section II: Community
Chapter Three: Modernized Honor Culture and Community: García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold/Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Gordana Yovanovich
Chapter Four: Reframing the Archive and Expanding Collective Memory in order to Bridge the Divide between Community and Civil Society in Yxta Maya Murray's The Conquest
Pablo Ramirez
Chapter Five: Memory and Temporary Communities in Laura Restrepo's The Dark Bride/La novia oscura
Maca Suazo and Lisa Bellstedt.
Chapter Six: Community and Learning: The Process of Concientization among Nicaraguan Peasants through Song
Mery Perez
Chapter Seven: Community and the State: Piecing Together Differences in Alejandro Brugués' Juan of the Dead
Miharu M. Miyasaka and Patrick X. Horrigan
Section III: Civil Society
Chapter Eight: Intercultural Democracy and Civil Society Participation in the New, Decolonized Bolivia
Roberta Rice
Chapter Nine: Conceptualizing Transnational Civil Society in Guatemala
Candace Johnson
Chapter Ten: Collective Banks and Counter-Acts: Building Civil Society from Within in Jamaica and Guyana
Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Chapter Eleven: War on Civil Society in Vargas Llosa's The War of the End of the World
Olga Nedvyga
Chapter Twelve: "Radical" Participatory Democracy Institutions in Venezuela and Ecuador: Strengthening Civil Society or Mechanisms for Controlled Inclusion?
Pascal Lupien
Section IV: Conclusions
Chapter Thirteen: Towards Civic Community: Conclusions
Gordana Yovanovich and Roberta Rice
