López-Pedreros / A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros Makers of Democracy

A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0329-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: Radical Perspectives

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia in the second half of the twentieth century, showing democracy to be a historically unstable and contentious practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

López-Pedreros, A. Ricardo

A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros, Lopez-Pedreros

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. "There Is No Other Class in Democracy" 1
Part I. Conscripts of Democracy: The Alliance for Progress, Development, and the (Re)Formation of a Gendered Middle Class, 1958–1965
1. A Bastard Middle Class 21
2. An Irresistible Democracy 42
3. The Productive Wealth of This Country 62
4. Beyond Capital and Labor 86
Part II. Contested Democracies: Classed Subjectivities, Social Movements, and Gendered Petit Bourgeois Radicalization, 1960s–1970s
5. In the Middle of the Mess 109
6. A Revolution for a Democratic Middle-Class Society 139
7. A Real Revolution, a Real Democracy 172
8. Democracy: The Most Important Gift to the World 225
Epilogue. A Class that Does (Not) Matter: Democracy beyond Democracy 255
Appendix 263
Notes 271
Bibliography 303
Index 333

Über Autor(innen)

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University and coeditor of The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History, also published by Duke University Press.