Waves of Protest: Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925–2005 (Social Movements, Protest and Contention)

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One of the first longitudinal studies of collective resistance within the developing world, Waves of Protest examines large-scale contentious action in El Salvador throughout vital eras within the country’s history.

Providing a compelling analysis of the massive waves of protests from the early twentieth century to the present in El Salvador, Paul D. Almeida fully chronicles one of the most largest and most successful campaigns against globalization and privatization within the Americas. Drawing on original protest data from newspapers and other archival sources, Almeida makes an impassioned argument that regime liberalization organizes civil society and, conversely, acts of state-sponsored repression radicalize society. He correlates the ebb and go with the flow of protest waves to the changes in regime liberalization and subsequent de-democratization and back to liberalization.

Almeida shows how institutional get right of entry to and competitive elections create opportunity for civic organizations that turn into radicalized when authoritarianism increases, resulting now and then in violent protest campaigns that escalate to revolutionary levels. In doing so, he brings negative political conditions and threats to the leading edge as central forces driving social movement activity and popular contention within the developing world.

Paul D. Almeida is assistant professor of sociology at Texas A&M University. He’s coeditor with Hank Johnston of Latin American Social Movements: Globalization, Democratization, and Transnational Networks.

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