| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Critical currents in Latin American perspective
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Critical currents in Latin American perspective.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-236) and index. |
| Contents |
The politicization of indigenous identities -- Uprisings -- The emergence of an electoral option -- The last coup of the twentieth century -- Indians in power -- A citizen's revolution -- Rewriting the Constitution-- again -- 2009 elections -- Social movements and electoral politics. |
| Summary |
This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of one of the most dynamic social movements in Latin America. Focusing on contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador, leading scholar Marc Becker traces the growing influence of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), which in 1990 led a powerful uprising that dramatically placed a struggle for Indigenous rights at the center of public consciousness. Activists began to refer to this uprising as a "pachakutik," a Kichwa word that means change, rebirth, and transformation, both in the sense of a return in ti. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador.
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Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador. |
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Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Politics and government.
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Indians of South America. |
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Ecuador. |
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Politics and government. |
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Indians of South America -- Civil rights -- Ecuador.
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Indians of South America -- Civil rights. |
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Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Ethnic identity.
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Ethnicity. |
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Civil rights movements -- Ecuador.
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Civil rights movements. |
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Social movements -- Ecuador.
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Social movements. |
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Ecuador -- Politics and government -- 1984-
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| Chronological Term |
1984- |
| Subject |
Elections -- Ecuador.
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Elections. |
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Ecuador -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1984 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Social movements. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Becker, Marc. Pachakutik. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2011 9781442207530 (DLC) 2010032763 (OCoLC)650219822 |
| ISBN |
9781442207554 (electronic book) |
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1442207558 (electronic book) |
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9781442207547 (paperback) |
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144220754X (paperback) |
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9781442207530 |
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1442207531 |
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9786612922640 |
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6612922648 |
| Standard No. |
9786612922640 |
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