Susan C. Stokes

Cultures in Conflict (eBook, ePUB)

Social Movements and the State in Peru

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and survey research she digs deeply into the popular culture of the social activists and shantytown residents she studies. The result is a penetrating look at how social movements evolve, how poor people construct independent political cultures, and how the ideological domination of oppressed classes can shatter.

This work is a new and vital chapter in the growing literature on the formation of social movements. It chronicles the transformation of Peru's poor from a culture of deference and clientelism in the late 1960s to a population mobilized for radical political action today.

In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Naval Institute Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520916234
• Artikelnr.: 67812101

Autorenporträt

Susan Stokes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.