RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Agents for Change or Conflict? Social Movements, Democratic Dynamics, and Development in Latin America.
A1 Bacallao Pino, Lázaro Magdiel
K1 Movimientos sociales
K1 Sociología
K1 Democracia
K1 Conflicto social
K1 Social movements
K1 Conflict
K1 Social change
K1 Democracy
K1 Development
K1 63 Sociología
K1 5905.06 Partidos Políticos
K1 59 Ciencia Política
K1 5906.06 Conflictos Sociales
AB In today’s Latin America, governments implementing public policies for development and against poverty and inequality meet with social movements that engage in practices for social change, poverty reduction, and empowering. In this context, we analyze the interplay between both processes, describing its conflicts in three specific dimensions: the material, the democratic, and the environmental. Social movements are permanently contesting and challenging public policy when they autonomously appropriate public policy resources; yet, governments respond with criminalization and cooptation strategies. In a setting where social conflict takes place in response to existing poverty and inequality levels, movements challenge development and poverty reduction projects of an ‘assistentialist’ and extractivist nature, and propose an integral understanding of development and the emergence of new relationships among individuals, society, and the environment.
PB Springer
SN 0957-8765
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/83058
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/83058
LA eng
NO Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 27, 105–124
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 26-feb-2026