| Social Movements and States in Latin America: Dancing with Dynamite East Coast Book Tour |
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| Written by Upside Down World |
| Thursday, 04 November 2010 13:48 |
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By Benjamin Dangl For an excerpt and table of contents, visit www.dancingwithdynamite.com
“Dancing with Dynamite dares to navigate the cloudy waters of Latin American social movements in the wake of the neoliberal wave, something which increasingly fewer thinkers and activists dare to do, but which turns out to be urgent.”—Raúl Zibechi, Uruguayan journalist and author of Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles in electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain uneasy. In Dancing with Dynamite, award-winning journalist Benjamin Dangl explores the complex ways these movements have worked with, against, and independently of national governments. From dynamite-wielding miners in Bolivia to the struggles of landless farmers in Brazil and Paraguay, Dangl discusses the dance between movements and states in seven different Latin American countries. Using original research, lively prose, and extensive interviews with workers, farmers, and politicians, he suggests how Latin American social movement strategies could be applied internationally to build a better world now. Bio: Benjamin Dangl has worked as a journalist throughout Latin America for the Guardian Unlimited, The Nation, and the NACLA Report on the Americas. He is the author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia, and the editor of TowardFreedom.com, a progressive perspective on world events and UpsideDownWorld.org, a website on activism and politics in Latin America. He teaches Latin American history and globalization at Burlington College in Vermont. Email BenDangl(at)gmail(dot)com Locations and Dates Dancing with Dynamite will be presented by the author at the following locations. November 7, 6 pm November 9th, 7 pm November 10, 7pm November 11, 7pm November 12th 7:30 pm November 19, 6pm |
East Coast Book Tour (Scroll down for tour dates and locations)
