Full Description
New Democratic Initiatives in Authoritarian Twenty-First Century Latin America uses a multidisciplinary approach to understand the coincidence of emerging social movements, seeking more meaningful forms of democratic participation, on the one hand, and the rise of new authoritarian politics that in part rely on chaos and disorder as mechanisms of domination, on the other. This edited collection argues that Latin America has entered a new phase of political and economic volatility in which traditional conceptual divisions between democracy and authoritarianism need to be re-thought. How are democratic movements coping with and reacting to the new right-wing politics of Jair Bolsonaro and Javier Milei, which among other things, attempt to incorporate the popular classes? Does the "second pink tide" offer meaningful avenues for popular empowerment? How are counter hegemonic struggles built? What are the challenges and opportunities faced by women, queer and trans people, cultural workers, people with disabilities and indigenous groups in this conjuncture? These are the key questions addressed in this book.
Contents
Introduction
Charmain Levy, Dan Furukawa Marques, and Manuel Larrabure
Chapter 1. Latin America's Second Pink Tide at a Crossroads: Between Democratic Backsliding and Democratic Innovations
Gonzalo Galindo Delgado & Daniel Schugurensky
Chapter 2. The Hegemony of Counter-Hegemony: Effects of the Paradoxes of the 2019 Social Protests in Chile and Ecuador
Thomas Chiasson-LeBel & Pablo Ospina Peralta
Chapter 3. Feminist Interventions in Barrios Populares in Latin America: Local Politics around Care and Social Services
Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, Charmain Levy, Natalia Czytajlo, Marisol Dalmazzo Peillard, Liliana Rainero, Jill Wigle, Lorena Zárate
Chapter 4. The Challenges of Indigenous Autonomy
Richard Stahler-Sholk
Chapter 5. Searching for Intersectional Activism: Women with Disabilities Navigating Legal Violence in Bolivia
Iblin Edelweiss Murillo Lafuente
Chapter 6. Gender Diversity Activism and Expansion of Rights in Argentina: Within the Movements, the Political Parties and the State
Juan Grandinetti
Chapter 7. Collective Mandates in Brazil: The "Gabinetona" Case
Ricardo Alves rCavalheiro , Leonardo Secchi , Willian Quadros da Silva
Chapter 8. Transient Coalition: The Resistance Movement of Workers in the Brazilian Cultural Sector
João Roque da Silva Júnior
Chapter 9. Social Movements in Porto Alegre Facing the De-Democratization of Participatory Budgeting
Jonas Lefebvre
Chapter 10. Neo-Ordoliberalism and the Left. Prospects for Strengthening Democracy and Overcoming the Contemporary Crises of Latin American Capitalism
Fernando Leiva Letelier
Chapter 11. On the Contradictions of the New Authoritarianisms. Neoliberal Demos in the Chilean Right-Wing Neopopulism
Tamara Ortega-Uribe
