Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America

Martes 18/6, 12.30h

Presentación del libro
El Departamento de Ciencia Política y Estudios Internacionales tiene el agrado de invitar a la presentación del libro "Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America", a cargo de Moisés Arce y Takeshi Wada.

Moisés Arce es el Scott y Marjorie Cowen Chair de Ciencias Sociales Latinoamericanas y profesor del Departamento de Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Tulane. Recibió su doctorado en ciencias políticas de la Universidad de Nuevo México en 2000. El profesor Arce se especializa en procesos de conflicto, política ambiental y gobernanza democrática.

Takeshi Wada es profesor del Departamento de Estudios de Área y director de la Red de Colaboración Académica de América Latina e Iberia (LAINAC) de la Universidad de Tokio. Recibió su doctorado en sociología de la Universidad de Columbia en 2003. Sus áreas de especialización incluyen política contenciosa y sociología del desarrollo.

Abstract: The arrival of democracy and globalization was a watershed moment for Latin America. It produced a changing political and economic environment, where democracy provided challengers with expanding political opportunities but globalization precipitated economic threats to livelihoods and human welfare. This changing environment removed the state from modes of political representation, such as urban labor movements and their affiliated mass-party organizations, while unleashing more pluralistic, heterogenous, and decentralized patterns of popular representation. Reducing its role in production, the state became mostly a regulator of economic activities.
Arce and Wada's volume examines the consequences of democracy and globalization on popular protests in Latin America, theorizing a broad shift of popular politics involving reactive and proactive mobilizations. A collaboration of sixteen distinguished scholars with different specializations (economists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists) in both the Global North and South, the volume provides a unique collection of studies of protest events in ten Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.

Expositores:
  • Moisés Arce (Universidad de Tulane)
  • Takeshi Wada (Universidad de Tokio)
Moderador:
  • Enrique Peruzzotti (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

Lugar: Aula SV402, Campus Di Tella
Contacto: Departamento de Ciencia Política y Estudios Internacionales

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