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Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Published: 28 May 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822397519-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9751-9
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-144
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
...) to stop the indigenous march. The following excerpts capture the confrontation between the protestors and the government ministers who met them on the nineteenth day of their march. This meeting ended on a note of conciliation, but only days later, on 25 September, as the march approached the town...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-133
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... farmers, as well as growing numbers of plebeian and middle-class urban residents. Protestors gained an important initial victory when they managed to occupy the central square after two days of clashes with security forces on 4–5 February. The coalition’s communiqué on 6 February conveys the heady feeling...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-136
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... in the assembly, and running battles between urban protestors and police and the military culminated in the deaths of at least three people and the forced exile of the pro- mas prefect of Chuquisaca. Félix Llanquipacha’s Sucre Must Be Respected, Damnit!!! , a semi-offcial history commissioned by the municipal...
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375869-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... This chapter examines the ongoing conflicts in Cajamarca and their implications for thinking about corporate accountability and political activism. I relate the book’s previous chapters to the protests in 2012 over the Conga mining project. Protestors argued that four mountain lakes would...
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375869-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
...”). Crucially, the knowledges that shaped the Quilish campaigns were not part of an already existing “indigenous tradition,” nor were they simply a set of meanings that environmentalists, scientists, and protestors assigned to a preexisting thing. Rather, their discursive practices and the mountain’s material...
Published: 16 September 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373728-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7372-8
... collective anxieties about belonging and authenticity thread through the embodied experiences and metaphors used by activists and protestors. The Tunisian Revolution of 14 January 2011 inaugurated forms of Tunisian feminist activism that boldly occupy and transform a variety of spaces and differentiate...
Book Chapter

By Fabiana Li
Published: 09 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... as “sacred mountain”). Crucially, the knowledges that shaped the Quilish campaigns were not part of an already existing “indigenous tradition,” nor were they simply a set of meanings that environmentalists, scientists, and protestors assigned to a preexisting thing. Rather, their discursive practices...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-140
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... representatives of the mas in the assembly, and running battles between urban protestors and police and the military culminated in the deaths of at least three people and the forced exile of the pro- mas prefect of Chuquisaca. Félix Llanquipacha’s Sucre Must Be Respected, Damnit!!! , a semi-offcial history...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-066
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... the government of President General Enrique Peñaranda (1940–43) to suppress trade-union and strike activity. The conflict came to a head in Simón Patiño’s Catavi mine on 21 December 1942, when troops opened fire on a demonstration of workers. The government claimed that nineteen protestors died and thirty were...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-120
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... and middle-class urban residents. Protestors gained an important initial victory when they managed to occupy the central square after two days of clashes with security forces on 4–5 February. The coalition’s communiqué on 6 February conveys the heady feeling of triumph. In March, the coalition organized...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-060
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... and strike activity. The conflict came to a head in Simón Patiño’s Catavi mine on 21 December 1942, when troops opened fire on a demonstration of workers. The government claimed that nineteen protestors died and thirty were wounded, while the opposition cited hundreds of casualties. The massacre generated...