Political Strategies and Social Movements in Latin America The Zapatistas and Bolivian Cocaleros /

• Main Author: Oikonomakis, Leonidas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Economic development.; Social change.; Peace.; Comparative politics.; Regionalism.; Latin American Politics.; Development and Social Change.; Conflict Studies.; Comparative Politics.; Regional Development.

This book investigates how social movements form their political strategies in their quest for social change and -when they shift from one strategy to another- why and how that happens. The author creates a model which distinguishes between two different roads to social change: one that passes throu...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Chapter I Introduction: Gentlemen, follow us please..."
• 2. Chapter II: Which way to social change compas?
• 3. Chapter III:The Zapatistas
• 4. Chapter IV: The EZLN and its emancipatory road
• 5. Chapter V: "The Devil's Leaf"
• 6. Chapter VI: Between the Armed Struggle and the Elections
• 7. Chapter VII: Opening up the Black Box.