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Demanding the Land:

Urban Popular Movements in Peru and Ecuador, 19902005
  • ISBN-13: 9780271037073
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Paul Dosh, Photographs by James Lerager
  • Price: AUD $180.00
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2010
  • Format: Hardback 280 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: linguistics [CF]
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Examines the widespread Latin American phenomenon of illegal land seizures and squatter settlement development. Explains, based on case studies in Peru and Ecuador, how invasion organizations mobilize, why they succeed or fail, and why they endure or disappear.


Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Photographs

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Strategy, Success, and Survival of Urban Popular Movements

2. Metropolitan Trends in Land Invasions: Policy, Democratization, Geography

3. The Old Guard: Pragmatism and Strategic Rigidity

4. The Next Generation: Strategic Flexibility and a Sense of Entitlement

5. The Innovators: Strategic Creativity and a Sense of Mission

6. Analyzing Organizational Strategy, Success, and Survival

7. Conclusions: Contention, Political Process, and Mixed Motives

Epilogue: From Scholarship to Activism

Appendix: Sources of Data and List of Interviews

References

Index


“Demanding the Land is a motivating and important book.”

—Magaly Sanchez, Contemporary Sociology

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