Latin American social movements in the twenty-first century: resistance, power, and democracy

Introduction / Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen Kuecker

Power and social movements in the other Occident : Latin America in an international context / David Slater

Social movements, hegemony, and new forms of resistance / Harry E. Vanden

Mexican popular movements, clientelism, and the process of democratization / Judith Adler Hellman

Struggles against accumulation by dispossession in Bolivia : the political economy of natural resource contention / Susan Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber

Fighting for the forests revisited : grassroots resistance to mining in northern Ecuador / Glen David Kuecker

Resisting neoliberal homogenization : the Zapatista autonomy movement / Richard Stahler-Sholk

Praxis of empowerment : mística and mobilization in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement / Daniela Issa

Zapatista anti-capitalist politics and the "other campaign" : learning from the struggle for indigenous rights and autonomy / Mariana Mora

Pachakutik and indigenous political party politics in Ecuador / Marc Becker

Transnational Black social movements in Latin America : Afro-Colombians and the struggle for human rights / Kwame Dixon

Politics is a uma coisinha de mulher (a woman's thing) : Black women's leadership in neighborhood movements in Brazil / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

Recasting "popular" movements : gender and political learning in neighborhood organizations in Chile / Verónica Schild

Casa Amiga : feminist community-building in Ciudad Juárez as an alternative to the structural violence of globalization / Joanna Swanger

Neoliberalism, corruption, and legacies of contention : Argentina's social movements, 1993-2006 / Roberta Villalón

New social movements with old party politics : the MTL piqueteros and the Communist Party in Argentina / Isabella Alcañiz and Melissa Scheier

Neo-Zapatista network politics : transforming democracy and development / Alicia C.S. Swords

La Vía Campesina : transnationalizing peasant struggle and hope / María Elena Martínez-Torres and Peter M. Rosset

Neoliberal regionalism and resistance in Mesoamerica : Foro Mesoamericano opposition to Plan Puebla-Panamá and CAFTA / Rose J. Spalding

Challenges ahead for Latin America's social movements / Glen David Kuecker, Richard Stahler-Sholk, and Harry E. Vanden.