The civil sphere in Latin America

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The civil sphere in Latin America

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jeffrey Alexander, Carlo Tognato

Contributor

• Tognato, Carlo
• Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-

Editor

• Tognato, Carlo
• Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-

Subject

• Democracy -- Latin America
• Civil society -- Latin America
• Latin America -- Social conditions -- 1945-1982
• Latin America -- Social conditions -- 1982-

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

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non fiction

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dictionaries

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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks