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New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico
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Edited by:
John Gledhill
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2012
About this book
This edited collection by scholars of both history and anthropology re-examines the concepts of resistance and the effect of neoliberalism from the 1980s to the present day comparing Brazil and Mexico, two of the largest countries in Latin America.
Author / Editor information
John Gledhill is the Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Power and Its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics.
Patience A. Schell is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City.
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“New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico is a fascinating collection. It gives a broad overview of the ‘resistance boom’ of the 1980s, while providing a serious critique from a more contemporary perspective. It puts scholars from different disciplines into conversation, and it introduces English-language readers to the work of Latin American scholars whose work is not as well known as it should be. This collection will be widely read, and it will stimulate debate.”—Jeffrey Lesser, author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980
“This collection offers extraordinarily rich and historically and ethnographically penetrating analyses of the concept of resistance, developing more nuanced and powerful applications of the concept based on detailed case studies from Mexico and Brazil. The authors are recognized authorities and the each present original work of great interest and value. The essays are outstanding and the introduction by John Gledhill and the concluding discussion by Alan Knight are masterful summaries of the complex issues that emerge in the essays.”—Donald Pollock, University at Buffalo, SUNY
“New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico, constitutes a welcome assessment of a major intellectual trend in the contemporary academic world…. the chapter case studies are well suited for introducing undergraduate students to questions of interpretation in history. The volume… should be of interest to specialists regardless of discipline.”
-- Alan Shane Dillingham History: Reviews of New Books
“...the interdisciplinary and international aspects of the project, not to mention the ambitious interinstitutional collaboration sustaining it, add refreshing and innovative qualities to the final product.”
-- Clifford Welch Hispanic American Historical Review
“Overall, New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico is a welcome addition to the growing literature on subaltern agency in Latin America and will provide ample material for discussions of key historiographical and theoretical issues for any graduate seminar which assigns this book."
-- Matthew Rothwell Canadian Journal of History
“The volume offers valuable ethnographic material, as well as provocative theoretical refl ections on the resistance studies genre that surged in the 1980s and on the subsequent critiques. . . . The contributors to this volume explicitly challenge what they consider to be the romanticization of resistance, and in the process they pose important questions for scholars employing the concept."
-- Richard Stahler-Sholk Journal of Anthropological Research
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction A Case for Rethinking Resistance
1 - Part one Resistance and the Creation of New Worlds
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Chapter one Rethinking Amerindian Resistance and Persistence in Colonial Portuguese America
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Chapter two Rituals of Defiance
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Chapter three Indian Resistances to the Rebellion of 1712 in Chiapas
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Chapter Four The “Commander of All Forests” against the “Jacobins” of Brazil
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Chapter FIve A “Great Arch” Descending
100 - Part Two Resisting through Religion and for Religion
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Chapter Six Millenarianism, Hegemony, and Resistance in Brazil
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Chapter Seven Where Does Resistance Hide in Contemporary Candomblé?
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Chapter Eight Catholic Resistances in Revolutionary Mexico during the Religious Conflict
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Chapter Nine Gender, Resistance, and Mexico’s Church- State Conflict
184 - Part Three Rethinking Resistance in a Changing World
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Chapter Ten Tracing Resistance
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Chapter Eleven Resistance, Factionalism, and Ethnogenesis in Southern Jalisco
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Chapter Twelve The Transhistorical, Juridical- Formal, and Post- Utopian Quilombo
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Chapter Thirteen From Resistance Avenue to the Plaza of Decisions
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Chapter Fourteen Contestation in the Courts
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Chapter Fifteen Beyond Resistance
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Conclusion Rethinking Histories of Resistance in Brazil and Mexico
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Bibliography
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About the Contributors
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Index
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