What Justice? Whose Justice?

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.

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.

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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 Chile’s Judiciary
Lisa Hilbink
4. Presidential Crises and Democratic Accountability in Latin America, 1990–1999
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

PART TWO: THE POLITY, THE SOCIAL CONTRACT, AND INJUSTICE
5. The Vicious Cycle of Inequality in Latin America
Terry Lynn Karl
6. Perpetrators’ Confessions: Truth, Reconciliation, and Justice in Argentina
Leigh A. Payne
7. Colombia: Does Injustice Cause Violence?
Marc W. Chernick

PART THREE: DEMOCRATIZATION: THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE AND ITS LIMITATIONS
8. Progressive Pragmatism as a Governance Model: An In-Depth Look at Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1989–2000
Sybil Delaine Rhodes
9. Citizen Responses to Conflict and Political Crisis in Peru: Informal Politics in Ayacucho
David Scott Palmer

PART FOUR: ETHNIC RESPONSES TO INJUSTICES
10. Social Justice and the New Indigenous Politics: An Analysis of Guatemala, the Central Andes, and Chiapas
John A. Peeler
11. The War of the Peace: Indigenous Women’s Struggle for Social Justice in Chiapas, Mexico
June Nash
12. Reflections on Remembrance: Voices from an Ixcán Village
Beatriz Manz

List of Contributors
Index