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Title What justice? whose justice? : fighting for fairness in Latin America / edited by Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 362 pages)
Contents Struggles for justice in Latin America / Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley -- Social inequality, civil society, and the limits of citizenship in Latin America / Philip Oxhorn -- An exception to Chilean exceptionalism? The historical role of Chile's judiciary / Lisa Hilbink -- Presidential crises and democratic accountability in Latin America, 1990-1999 / Aníbal Pérez-Liñán -- The vicious cycle of inequality in Latin America / Terry Lynn Karl -- Perpetrators' confessions : truth, reconciliation, and justice in Argentina / Leigh A. Payne -- Colombia : does injustice cause violence? / Marc W. Chernick -- Progressive pragmatism as a governance model : an in-depth look at Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1989-2000 / Sybil Delaine Rhodes -- Citizen responses to conflict and political crisis in Peru : informal politics in Ayacucho / David Scott Palmer -- Social justice and the new indigenous politics : an analysis of Guatemala, the Central Andes, and Chiapas / John A. Peeler -- The war of the peace : indigenous women's struggle for social justice in Chiapas, Mexico / June Nash -- Reflections on remembrance : voices from an Ixcán village / Beatriz Manz
Summary Following up on issues raised in 'Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements', these essays elucidate how conceptions of justice are socially constructed and contested and historically contingent, shaped by people's values and institutionally grounded in real-life experiences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Social justice -- Latin America
Democratization -- Latin America
Free trade -- Social aspects -- Latin America
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Democratization
Free trade -- Social aspects
Social justice
Sociale rechtvaardigheid.
Ongelijkheid.
Democratisering.
Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Eckstein, Susan, 1942- editor.
Wickham-Crowley, Timothy P., 1951- editor.
ISBN 9780520936980
0520936981
1417520019
9781417520015
1597349992
9781597349994