The book by Deborah J. Yashar explores why indigenous movements suddenly surged in late 20th-century Latin America.
One day, the government changed the rules. It adopted , aiming to treat everyone as individual, equal citizens. While this sounded like "democracy," it actually stripped away the collective protections the villagers relied on for their local autonomy. Suddenly, their lands were at risk, and the "peasant" unions that once protected them were dismantled.
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: A "crack" in the state’s control allowed them the freedom to gather and form significant political organizations without being immediately crushed.
: The shift to neoliberalism unintentionally challenged their local autonomy, giving them a reason to fight back.
Here is a helpful story to illustrate the book's core arguments: The Story of the Changing Village