1st Edition
Social Movements, the Poor and the New Politics of the Americas
Håvard Haarstad is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen. He has worked extensively on the political economy of natural resource extraction, and the role of social movements, civil society and labor unions in politicizing extraction.
Mark Amen is graduate program director in the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida/Tampa and Deputy Editor of Globalizations. His current research is on urban indebtedness and the global economy.
Asuncion Lera St Clair, philosopher and sociologist is Research Director at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo-CICERO and Associated Senior Researcher with Chr. Michelsens Institute (CMI). Her research focus is on the interface between climate change, poverty and development, with particular emphasis on justice, ethics, and knowledge productions processes.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Håvard Haarstad, Department of Geography, University of Bergen
Mark Amen, Department of Government and International Affairs, University of South Florida/Tampa
Asuncion Lera St. Clair, Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO)
Chapter 2: Social Movements Confront Neoliberalism: Reflections on a Caribbean Experience
Norman Girvan, University of West Indies/Trinidad
Chapter 3: The Politics of Space in the Bolivarian Alliancefor the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA—TCP): Transnationalism, the organized Society, and Counter-Hegemonic Governance
Thomas Muhr, Centre for Globalisation, Education and Societies (GES), University of Bristol
Chapter 4, Social Movements and Political Parties in Brzil: expanding Democracy, the "Struggle for the Possible" and the Reproduction of Power Structures
Chairman Levy, Département des Sciences Socials, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
Chapter 5: Global Social Movements in Global Governance
Elizabeth A. Bennett, Department of Political Science, Brown University
Chapter 6: Popular Participation in Venezuela’s Barrio Adentro Health Reform
Qamar Mamood, Senior Program Officer, Governance for Equity in Health Systems (GEHS), International Development Research Centre IDRC/Ottawa
Carles Muntaner, Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
Rosicar del Valle Mata León, National Socialist Training and Education National Institute of Venezuela.ora
Ramón Ernesto Perdomo, Vice Minister Basic Industries, Venezuela
Chapter 7: Labor and community Organizations in Alliance? Alternative Development Visions in the Caribbean Region of Colombia
Patricia M. Rodriguez, Politics Department, Ithaca College
Chapter 8: Poverty’s Numbing Effect on Collective Action: A Case Study of squatter settlers in Lima, Peru
Anna Marie Brodrecht, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
Chapter 9: Social Movement strategies for articulating claims for soci-ecological justics: Global asymmetries in the Chilean Forestry Sector
Jonathan R. Barton and Álvaro Román, Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Chapter 10: Conclusion
Håvard Haarstad, Department of Geography, University of Bergen
Mark Amen, Department of Government and International Affairs, University of South Florida/Tampa
Asuncion Lera St. Clair, Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO)
Biography
Håvard Haarstad is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen. He has worked extensively on the political economy of natural resource extraction, and the role of social movements, civil society and labor unions in politicizing extraction.
Mark Amen is graduate program director in the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida/Tampa and Deputy Editor of Globalizations. His current research is on urban indebtedness and the global economy.
Asuncion Lera St Clair, philosopher and sociologist, is Research Director at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo-CICERO and Associated Senior Researcher with Chr. Michelsens Institute (CMI). Her research focus is on the interface between climate change, poverty and development, with particular emphasis on justice, ethics, and knowledge productions processes.
