Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras (Land & Sovereignty)
During his time in La Quebrada, Reichman focused on three different strategies for social reform-a fledgling coffee cooperative that sought to raise farmer incomes and establish principles of fairness and justice through consumer activism; religious campaigns for personal morality that were intended to counter the corrosive effects of migration; and local discourses about migrant "greed" that labeled migrants as the cause of social crisis, rather than its victims. All three phenomena had one common trait: They were settings in which people presented moral visions of social welfare in response to a perceived moment of crisis. The Broken Village integrates sacred and secular ideas of morality, legal and cultural notions of justice, to explore how different groups define social progress.
Country | USA |
Manufacturer | ILR Press |
Binding | Kindle Edition |
ReleaseDate | 2011-11-15 |
Format | Kindle eBook |