This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of one of
the most dynamic social movements in Latin America. Focusing on
contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador, leading scholar Marc
Becker traces the growing influence of the Confederation of Indigenous
Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), which in 1990 led a powerful
uprising that dramatically placed a struggle for Indigenous rights at
the center of public consciousness. Activists began to refer to this
uprising as a "pachakutik," a Kichwa word that means change, rebirth,
and transformation, both in the sense of a return in time and the
coming of a new era. Five years later, proponents launched a new
political movement called Pachakutik to compete for elected office. In
2006, Ecuadorians elected Rafael Correa, who many saw as emblematic of
the new Latin American left, to the presidency of the country. Even
though CONAIE, Pachakutik, and Correa shared similar concerns for
social justice, they soon came into conflict with each other. Becker
examines the competing strategies and philosophies that emerge when
social movements and political parties embrace comparable visions but
follow different paths to realize their objectives. In exploring the
multiple and conflictive strategies that Indigenous movements have
followed over the past twenty years, he definitively documents the
recent history and charts the trajectory of one of the Americas' most
powerful and best organized social movements.
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ISBN
9781442207554
Publisert
2012
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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