What justice? whose justice? : fighting for fairness in Latin America / edited by Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eckstein, Susan, 1942-

Wickham-Crowley, Timothy P., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice--Latin America.

Social justice.

Democratization--Latin America.

Democratization.

Free trade--Social aspects--Latin America.

Free trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The new millennium began with the triumph of democracy and markets. But for whom is life just, how so, and why? And what is being done to correct persisting injustices? Blending macro-level global and national analysis with in-depth grassroots detail, the contributors highlight roots of injustices, how they are perceived, and efforts to alleviate them. Following up on issues raised in the groundbreaking best-seller Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements (California, 2001), these essays elucidate how conceptions of justice are socially constructed and contested and historically contingent, shaped by people's values and institutionally grounded in real-life experiences. The contributors, a stellar coterie of North and Latin American scholars, offer refreshing new insights that deepen our understanding of social justice as ideology and practice.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

1. Struggles for Justice in Latin America

2. Social Inequality, Civil Society, and the Limits of Citizenship in Latin America

3. An Exception to Chilean Exceptionalism? The Historical Role of Chile's Judiciary

4. Presidential Crises and Democratic Accountability in Latin America, 1990-1999

5. The Vicious Cycle of Inequality in Latin America

6. Perpetrators' Confessions: Truth, Reconciliation, and Justice in Argentina

7. Colombia: Does Injustice Cause Violence?

8. Progressive Pragmatism as a Governance Model: An In-Depth Look at Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1989-2000

9. Citizen Responses to Conflict and Political Crisis in Peru: Informal Politics in Ayacucho

10. Social Justice and the New Indigenous Politics: An Analysis of Guatemala, the Central Andes, and Chiapas

11. The War of the Peace: Indigenous Women's Struggle for Social Justice in Chiapas, Mexico

12. Reflections on Remembrance: Voices from an Ixcán Village

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612359651

9780520936980

0520936981

9781282359659

1282359657

9781597349994

1597349992

OCLC:

475930429