Meaningful Resistance explores the origins and dynamics of
resistance to markets through an examination of two social
movements that emerged to voice and channel opposition to market
reforms. Protests against water privatization in Cochabamba,
Bolivia, and rising corn prices in Mexico City, Mexico, offer a
lens to analyze the mechanisms by which perceived, market-driven
threats to material livelihood can prompt resistance. By exploring
connections among marketization, local practices, and political
protest, the book shows how the material and the ideational are
inextricably linked in resistance to subsistence threats. When
people perceive that markets have put subsistence at risk, material
and symbolic worlds are both at stake; citizens take to the streets
not only to defend their pocketbooks, but also their conceptions of
community. The book advances contemporary scholarship by showing
how attention to grievances in general, and subsistence resources
in particular, can add explanatory leverage to analyses of
contentious politics.
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