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The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy and Democracy
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This article is published in Bulletin of Latin American Research.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 356 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Identity (social science) & Democracy.read more
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Health-system reform and universal health coverage in Latin America
Rifat Atun,Luiz Odorico Monteiro de Andrade,Luiz Odorico Monteiro de Andrade,Gisele Almeida,Daniel Cotlear,Tania Dmytraczenko,Patricia Frenz,Patricia J. Garcia,Octavio Gómez-Dantés,Felicia Marie Knaul,Carles Muntaner,Juliana Braga de Paula,Felix Rigoli,Pastor Castell-Florit Serrate,Adam Wagstaff +14 more
TL;DR: In Latin America, health-system reforms have produced a distinct approach to universal health coverage, underpinned by the principles of equity, solidarity, and collective action to overcome social inequalities as discussed by the authors.
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SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: Changing Paradigms and Forms of Politics
TL;DR: Theories of collective action have undergone a number of paradigm shifts, from "mass behavior" to "resource mobilization,” "political process, and new social movements" as mentioned in this paper.
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Democracy, Indigenous Movements, and Postliberal Challenge in Latin America
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take issue with the conceptual and analytical underpinnings of this literature by highlighting how new political institutions, rather than securing democratic politics, have in fact had a more checkered effect.
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Mining and social movements: struggles over livelihood and rural territorial development in the Andes
Anthony Bebbington,Denise Humphreys Bebbington,Jeffrey Bury,Jeannet Lingán,Juan Pablo Muñoz,Martin Scurrah +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the presence and nature of social movements has significant influences both on forms taken by extractive industries (in this case mining) and on the effects of this extraction on rural livelihoods.
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Civil Society in African Contexts: Reflections on the Usefulness of a Concept
TL;DR: The usefulness of the concept of civil society as an analytical construct and as a policy tool in non-western contexts was examined in this paper. But the authors did not consider the role of civil societies in the development process.