The Political Empowerment of the Cocaleros of Bolivia and Peru (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an internationally criminalzsed good, affected the path and outcome of cocalero political empowerment in each case.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137453556
• Artikelnr.: 41836317

Autorenporträt

Ursula Durand Ochoa earned her PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, in 2012. She has taught Comparative Democratization, Latin American Politics, Social Movements, and Civil Rights at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, and Political Sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Criminalisation of Coca and Cocaine 3. Peru: Formation of a Social Movement - Crisis and Repression during the Transition(s) to Democracy 4. Bolivia: Formation of a Social Movement - Crisis and Opportunity during the Transition to Democracy 5. Peru: Transformation of a Social Movement - Radicalisation, Division, and Demobilisation 6. Bolivia: Transformation of a Social Movement - Convergence and Diffusion 7. Conclusion: The Cocaleros of Bolivia and Peru Compared