What Justice Whose Justice Fighting for Fairness in Latin America [Paperback]

The new millennium began with the triumph of democracy and markets. But for whom is life just, how so, and why? And what is being done to correct persisting injustices? Blending macro-level global and national analysis with in-depth grassroots detail, the contributors highlight roots of injustices, how they are perceived, and efforts to alleviate them. Following up on issues raised in the groundbreaking best-sellerPower and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements(California, 2001), these essays elucidate how conceptions of justice are socially constructed and contested and historically contingent, shaped by people's values and institutionally grounded in real-life experiences. The contributors, a stellar coterie of North and Latin American scholars, offer refreshing new insights that deepen our understanding of social justice as ideology and practice.

Susan Eva Ecksteinis Professor of Sociology at Boston University and former president of the Latin American Studies Association. She is the author ofBack from the Future: Cuba under Castro(1994).Timothy P. Wickham-Crowleyis Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and former program chair of the Latin American Studies Association. He is the author ofGuerrillas and Revolution in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Insurgents and Regimes since 1956(1992). Together they editedStruggles for Social Rights in Latin America(2002).

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Preface

1. Struggles for Justice in Latin America
Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley

PART ONE: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, RIGHTS, AND INJUSTICE
2. Social Inequality, Civil Society, and the Limits of Citizenship in Latin America
Philip Oxhorn
3. An Exception to Chilean Exceptionalism? The Historical Role of Chiles Judiciary
Lisa Hilbink
4. Presidential Crises and Democratic Accountability in Latin America, 19901999