The Civil Sphere in Latin America

Synopsis

Social thinkers have criticized Latin American development as incomplete, backward, and anti-modern. This volume demonstrates that, while often deeply compromised and fragmented, Latin American civil spheres have remained resilient, institutionally and culturally, generating new oppositional movements, independent journalism, rebellious intellectuals, electoral power, and critical political parties.

In widely different arenas, dissidents have employed the coruscating language of the civil sphere to pollute their oppressors in the name of justice. In the 1970s and 1980s, political thinkers heralded the resurrection of Latin American civil society, envisioning a new world of freedom and stability. Corruption, inequality, racism, and exclusion become pressing and urgent 'social problems', not despite the promises of democracy, but because of them. The premise of this volume is that Latin American civil spheres are powerful, even as they are compromised, creating challenges to anti-civil culture and institutions that trigger social reform. It is the first of three volumes that place civil sphere theory in a global context.

Each empirical contribution employs, in innovative and deeply illuminating ways, civil sphere theory.

The chapters are written by professors who work almost exclusively in Latin American universities, experts in distinctive national and institutional domains.

Chapters address themselves to issues, strains, problems, and controversies of today's Latin America.

Copyright:

2018

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Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781108609494

Related ISBNs:

9781108426831, 9781108426831

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Date of Addition:

06/16/18

Copyrighted By:

Cambridge University Press

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Social Studies

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