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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783294603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

9786612359651

0-520-93698-1

1-282-35965-7

1-59734-999-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EcksteinSusan <1942->

Wickham-CrowleyTimothy P. <1951->

Disciplina

303.3/72/098

Soggetti

Social justice - Latin America

Democratization - Latin America

Free trade - Social aspects - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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.