Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rice, Roberta; Yovanovich, Gordana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The ideas of community and civil society tend to be studied separately, as analytically distinct concepts however, this volume seeks to explore their potential to work together. A unique contribution of the work is the space for dialogue it creates between the social sciences and the humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315530871
• Artikelnr.: 49376667

Autorenporträt

Gordana Yovanovich is a professor and graduate coordinator for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at the University of Guelph. Roberta Rice is an assistant professor in political science at the University of Calgary.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Concepts
Chapter One: Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society
Gordana Yovanovich and Roberta Rice
Chapter Two: Civil Society from the Inside Out: Community, Organization and
the Challenge of Political Influence
Philip Oxhorn
Section II: Community
Chapter Three: Modernized Honor Culture and Community: García Márquez¿s
Chronicle of a Death Foretold/Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Gordana Yovanovich
Chapter Four: Reframing the Archive and Expanding Collective Memory in
order to Bridge the Divide between Community and Civil Society in Yxta Maya
Murray's The Conquest
Pablo Ramirez
Chapter Five: Memory and Temporary Communities in Laura Restrepös The Dark
Bride/La novia oscura
Maca Suazo and Lisa Bellstedt.
Chapter Six: Community and Learning: The Process of Concientization among
Nicaraguan Peasants through Song
Mery Perez
Chapter Seven: Community and the State: Piecing Together Differences in
Alejandro Brugués' Juan of the Dead
Miharu M. Miyasaka and Patrick X. Horrigan
Section III: Civil Society
Chapter Eight: Intercultural Democracy and Civil Society Participation in
the New, Decolonized Bolivia
Roberta Rice
Chapter Nine: Conceptualizing Transnational Civil Society in Guatemala
Candace Johnson
Chapter Ten: Collective Banks and Counter-Acts: Building Civil Society from
Within in Jamaica and Guyana
Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Chapter Eleven: War on Civil Society in Vargas Llosa's The War of the End
of the World
Olga Nedvyga
Chapter Twelve: "Radical" Participatory Democracy Institutions in Venezuela
and Ecuador: Strengthening Civil Society or Mechanisms for Controlled
Inclusion?
Pascal Lupien
Section IV: Conclusions
Chapter Thirteen: Towards Civic Community: Conclusions
Gordana Yovanovich and Roberta Rice