A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

Makers of Democracy

A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia

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Produktbeschreibung

In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources ranging from training manuals and oral histories to school and business archives, López-Pedreros shows how the Colombian middle class created a model of democracy based on free-market ideologies, private property rights, material inequality, and an emphasis on a masculine work culture. This model, which naturalized class and gender hierarchies, provided the groundwork for Colombia's later adoption of neoliberalism and inspired the emergence of alternate models of democracy and social hierarchies in the 1960s and 1970s that helped foment political radicalization. By highlighting the contested relationships between class, gender, economics, and politics, López-Pedreros theorizes democracy as a historically unstable practice that exacerbated multiple forms of domination, thereby prompting a rethinking of the formation of democracies throughout the Americas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781478002857
• ISBN-10: 1478002859
• Artikelnr.: 52524860

Autorenporträt

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University and coeditor of The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. "There Is No Other Class in Democracy"  1
Part I. Conscripts of Democracy: The Alliance for Progress, Development,
and the (Re)Formation of a Gendered Middle Class, 1958–1965
1. A Bastard Middle Class  21
2. An Irresistible Democracy  42
3. The Productive Wealth of This Country  62
4. Beyond Capital and Labor  86
Part II. Contested Democracies: Classed Subjectivities, Social Movements,
and Gendered Petit Bourgeois Radicalization, 1960s–1970s
5. In the Middle of the Mess  109
6. A Revolution for a Democratic Middle-Class Society  139
7. A Real Revolution, a Real Democracy  172
8. Democracy: The Most Important Gift to the World  225
Epilogue. A Class that Does (Not) Matter: Democracy beyond Democracy  255
Appendix  263
Notes  271
Bibliography  303
Index  333