Cover of Edward F. Fischer (EDT): Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America

Edward F. Fischer (EDT) Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America

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Berghahn Books

2008

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In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society's growth and critically assesses the potential for sustained change. Much recent literature has focused on the remarkable gains made by civil society and the chapters in this volume reinforce this trend while also showing the complexity of civil society - that civil society can itself sometimes be uncivil. In doing so, these insightful contributions speak not only to Latin American area studies but also to the changing shape of global systems of political economy in general.

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