Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America

Chapter 1. Social Movements across Latin America; Paul Almeida and Allen Cordero

PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL ADVANCES

Chapter 2. Social Movements and Progressive Regimes in Latin America: World Revolutions and Semiperipheral Development; Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alessandro Morosin and Alexis Álvarez

Chapter 3. "There and Back Again": Latin American Social Movements and Reasserting the Powers of Structural Theories; Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley and Susan Eva Eckstein

Chapter 4. State Repression and Mobilization in Latin America; David G. Ortiz

Chapter 5. Protest Artifacts in the Mexican Social Movement Sector: Reflections on the "Stepchild" of Cultural Analysis; Ligia Tavera Fenollosa and Hank Johnston

PART II: CRITICAL THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY POPULAR MOBILIZATION

Chapter 6. Women's Movements in Latin America; Lynn Horton

Chapter 7. Latin American Social Movements and the World Social Forum Process; Ian Breckenridge-Jackson, Natasha Radojcic, Ellen Reese, Elizabeth Schwarz, and Christopher Vito

Chapter 8. Social Movements and Liberation Theology; Robert Mackin

Chapter 9. Beyond Clientelism: The Piquetero Movement and the State in Argentina M; Federico M. Rossi

PART III: INDIGENOUS BASED STRUGGLES ACROSS THE CONTINENT

Chapter 10. Indigenous Peoples' Movements, Development, and Politics in Ecuador and Bolivia; Eduardo Silva

Chapter 11. Sliding Doors of Opportunity: Zapatistas and their Cycle of Protest; María Inclán

Chapter 12. Panama: Worker, Indigenous and Popular Uprising in Bocas del Toro (2011); Giovanni Beluche V.

PART IV: URBAN BASED MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AMERICA

Chapter 13. It Takes Two to Tango: Students, Political Parties and Protest in Chile (2005-2013); Marisa von Bülow and Germán Bidegain Ponte

Chapter 14. Urban Social Movements in Venezuela; Sujatha Fernandes

Chapter 15. Squatters and Politics in Montevideo at the Turn of the Century; María José Álvarez-Rivadulla

PART V: ENVIRONMENTAL

Paul Almeida is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. His research centers on social movements. Almeida's articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Mobilization, Social Forces, Social Problems, and other scholarly outlets. He is author of Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014); Waves of Protest: Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005 (University of Minnesota Press 2008) and co-editor with Hank Johnston of Latin American Social Movements: Globalization, Democratization and Transnational Networks (Rowman & Littlefield 2006). His research has been funded by the World Society Foundation and the Fulbright Scholars Program. Almeida serves on the editorial advisory boards of Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, Latin American Perspectives, Mobilization, Research in Political Sociology, Social Forces, and Sociology of Development. He is a Council member for the Global and Transnational Sociology section and Chair-Elect of the section on the Political Economy of the World System (PEWS) of the American Sociological Association. 

Allen Cordero Ulate was born in Tres Ríos, Costa Rica. He attended the University of Costa Rica and studied sociology in the mid 1970s. He participated in diverse social movements as well as the resistance against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua between 1978 and 1979. Since 1993 he has worked as a professor and researcher at FLACSO-Costa Rica. In 2003, he earned his doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Costa Rica. Since 2005, he has served as a professor in Sociology at the University of Costa Rica teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Social Movements and Research Methods. Dr. Cordero has also held a visiting Professorship at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine (IHEAL) de París 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle. In the field of social movements his