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Book SynopsisSocial Protests in Colombia: A History, 1958-1990 examines social mobilization in Colombia through a variety of lenses in an interdisciplinary approach. Mauricio Archila-Neira incorporates theories from diverse social sciences including subaltern studies and postcolonial approaches to open up an intergenerational dialogue about political transformation and social change. Archila-Neira approaches this history from an objective viewpoint, offering an analysis from a distance not altered by emotion or hyperbole as he examines the values, traditions, and social collective action of subaltern sectors without external influence or motive. The book argues that academia bears the responsibility to put into play its accumulated symbolic capital to critically understand society, without abandoning the utopic effort to imagine another world is possible. Social Protests in Colombia teaches readers how to inhabit differencesof historical experiences, knowledge, and understandingsand why it is cruci
Table of ContentsForeword by A.Ricardo López-Pedreros Chapter 1- Protest Repertories Chapter 2- The Social Actors Chapter 3- The Demands: A Statistical Explanation Chapter 4- Collective Social Action as Class Struggle Chapter 5- The Strengthening of the State and the Civil Society Chapter 6- The Construction of Identities Chapter 7- Indignation Is Fair
