1. Susan Eckstein. “Power and Popular Protest in Latin America.” opening survey chapter. emphasizes historical-structural approach, not individual. quick critical lit review. Then theoretical overview: forms of protest, social bases of defiance (production, market, race ethnic, gender, politics, religion), contextual factors (local institutions, class alliances, cultures of resistance; elite support; state structures; exit options), impact of protest.
4. Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley. “Winners, Losers, and Also-Rans: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Latin American Guerilla Movements.” In Susan Eckstein, ed. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. 1989. UNC Press. pp 132-181. historical overview, comparative time line. origins. university intellectual leadership and peasants: always the attempt, sometimes succeed. Model, table showing which groups strong, which not. Detailed comparisons of theoretical linkages, summary table of all cases.
10. John Walton. “Debt, Protest, and the State in Latin America.” In Susan Eckstein, ed. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. 1989. UNC Press. pp 299-328. overview of debt policies and riots in response. careful summary of similarities and differences. good. [would be very interesting linked to US riots and to Tillyesque or Rude stuff on crowds in history.]
2. Cynthia McClintock. “Peru’s Sendero Luminoso Rebellion: Origins and Trajectory.” In Susan Eckstein, ed. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. 1989. UNC Press. pp 61-101. radical extremist violent group, why get local peasant support. economic decline, threat to subsistence + political changes in area raising political awareness and shifting alliances and issues + organizational strategies of SL, esp. local-origin university-educated activists + weak and inappropriate state responses. group is wild fanatic gang-of-four Maoist. peasants not, don’t support violent and seem to interpret in local terms. Reasons for decline include effective repression, good state policies, group mistakes.
3. León Zamosc. “Peasant Struggles of the 1970s in Colombia.” In Susan Eckstein, ed. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. 1989. UNC Press. pp 102-131. descriptive history: part of reformist alliance, then leftist, then acquiescent. changing national economy, politics. Susan Eckstein, ed.
8. Manuel Antonio Garretón M. “Popular Mobilization and the Military Regime in Chile: The Complexities of the Invisible Transition.” In Susan Eckstein, ed. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. 1989. UNC Press. pp 259-277. review of Chilean history and role of mobilizations. overview of mobilization of the 1980s. relation to experience of military rule.
9. Maria Helena Moreira Alves. “Interclass Alliances in the Opposition to the Military in Brazil: Consequences for the Transition Period.” In Susan Eckstein, ed. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. 1989. UNC Press. pp 278-298. history of specific groups, issues. basically elite domination of WC groups thru alliances.
7. Marysa Navarro. “The Personal is Political: Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo.” In Susan Eckstein, ed. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. 1989. UNC Press. pp 241-258. Argentina. repression, “the disappeared.” mothers’ marches, first silent, small vigils at monument, ignored first. becomes empowering. discussion of why mothers pushed harder than fathers, why matrons were permitted more latitude in early stages of protest.
5. June Nash. “Cultural Resistance and Class Consciousness in Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities.” In Susan Eckstein, ed. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. 1989. UNC Press. pp 182-202. very interesting, integration of religious rituals with memories of past political violent events, maintenance of culture of resistance.
6. Daniel H. Levine and Scott Mainwaring. “Religion and Popular Protest in Latin America: Contrasting Experiences.” In Susan Eckstein, ed. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. 1989. UNC Press. pp 203-240. Catholic church in Brazil and Colombia (progressive vs conservative). base communities created by church actors. have apolitical impact, but are centrally religious. details of how they work in the two countries and end up with different impacts relating to how they are embedded in larger structures.
7. Marysa Navarro. “The Personal is Political: Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo.” In Susan Eckstein, ed. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. 1989. UNC Press. pp 241-258. Argentina. repression, “the disappeared.” mothers’ marches, first silent, small vigils at monument, ignored first. becomes empowering. discussion of why mothers pushed harder than fathers, why matrons were permitted more latitude in early stages of protest.