| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) |
| Contents |
Encounters with Honduras : Resistance and Resilience -- A Culture of Domination -- Weapons of the Strong -- Evolution of a Culture of Resistance -- Patterns of Indigenous Resistance -- Nourishing Resilience : Food, Environment, Community -- The Legal Order : Challenging Judicial and Political Systems -- Ancient Weapon of the People : Popular Culture -- Spirits Helping Us : A Spiritual Struggle? -- The United States Connection : Intervention, Solidarity, and Resistance -- A Conclusion, or Is It? |
| Summary |
"Honduras in Dangerous Times: Resistance and Resilience explores how the people of Honduras use cultural resources to resist and to change the conditions of their society, to critique those conditions, and to create the pieces of a better future in the midst of a dangerous present. The book explores ideas and practices which support systems of dominance and submission in Honduras and the ways in which people have slowly developed a broad culture of resistance and resilience. This culture includes struggling for land and environmental preservation against extractive industries, promoting natural local food and sustainable technology to replace foreign agribusiness, bringing a corrupt legal and political system to account by invoking concepts of human rights and laws routinely ignored, bending institutional religion to issues of social justice, and expressing protest and visions of a better society through popular culture. The book highlights the special contribution of the country's Indigenous peoples in resistance; it also discusses the powerful role of the United States in shaping Honduran economic, political, and military life, and what people-to-people solidarity with Hondurans means for citizens of the United States. The book concludes by presenting Honduran popular resistance in a context of late neoliberalism in Honduras and in relation to other Latin American social movements. Honduras in Dangerous Times shows that Hondurans resist in the face of violence and oppression not only because they are resilient, but also that they are resilient because they resist. Resistance keeps hope alive and change possible."--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social movements -- Honduras
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Protest movements -- Honduras
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Government, Resistance to -- Honduras
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Government, Resistance to
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Protest movements
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Social conditions
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Social movements
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Soziale Bewegung
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Protest
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| SUBJECT |
Honduras -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Honduras
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Honduras
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780739183564 |
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0739183567 |
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