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Surviving Globalization in Three Latin American Communities

by Denis L. Heyck

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Published: August 2002

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Page Count: 304 Pages

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Globalization has reached even the most remote areas of Latin America, pushing traditional peoples and habitats to the brink of extinction and offering a stark choice: adapt or perish. Local communities are scrambling to adjust to new market and social realities while trying to hold on to those cultural values that they regard as non-negotiable.

This book tells the important story of three Latin American communities experiencing globalization at the point of contact between tradition and modernity: Brazil's rubber tappers, Bolivia's Guaraní Indians, and Nicaragua's women cooperativists. Through exclusive, in-depth interviews, Heyck describes globalization and development in the words of people who are experiencing these forces at the grassroots level. The result is a multifaceted understanding of local and global connections and of the human, cultural, and religious dimensions of globalization.

Denis Lynn Daly Heyck is a professor at Loyola University Chicago, and is author of Tradicion y cambio: lecturas sobre la cultura latinoamericana contemporanea, 2nd ed. (McGraw-Hill, 1997); Barrios and Borderlands: Cultures of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (Routledge, 1994); and Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution (Routledge, 1990).

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: Brazil

Introduction

Interviews:

Julio Barbosa
Raimundo Mendes de Barros
Marina Silva
Francisco das Chagas
Manoel Estebio Cavalcante da Cunha
Dom Moacyr Grechi

Conclusion

Part Two: Bolivia

Introduction

Interviews:

Pascuala Arebayo, Rosario Mendoza, Gregoria Catuire, and Santos Arebayo Paulina Munoz
Jorge Gallardo (Machirope)
Feliciano Tarraga
Facundo Galean
Valerio Munoz
Angela Tague
Susana de Chavez
Maura McCarthy, PBVM

Conclusion

Part Three: Nicaragua

Introduction

Interviews:

Maria del Rosario Flores Neira
Juanita Medina de Matus
Olfania Medina
Juanita Solorzano Gaitan, Bertha Rosa Rojas, Lorena Solorzano, Zoila Maria Rojas, Lorena Solorzano, Zoila Maria Rojas Calero, and William Vivas Soto
Gloria Siesar Gonzalez
Nubia Boniche Calero
Guilhermina Barrera Moncada and Edmundo Gonzalez Mutute

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Surviving Globalization offers valuable insights into the impact of global economic policies on rural communities in Nicaragua and Brazil and among the Guarani of Bolivia through the personal testimonies of local activists. Their narratives show grass-roots democracy at work as these men and women recount their struggles to improve literacy and health, to run cooperatives and protect the environment. Denis Heyck's admirably detailed introductions to each of these communities do not scant the complexity of their relations to local, national, and international forces.
Jean Franco, Columbia University

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Latin American Studies / Latin American Politics

Sociology / Globalization

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