Katherine Hite

The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America

Introduction 1. Participation, Inequality, and the Whereabouts of Democracy SECTION I: TRADITIONAL ACTORS, NEW SETTINGS 2. Beyond Corporatism: New Patterns of Representation in the Brazilian Auto Industry 3. Union Politics, Market-Orientated Reforms and the Reshaping of Argentine Corporatism 4. The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil SECTION II: SEARCHING FOR NEW FORMS OF PARTICIPATION 5. The Rise of Causa R in Venezuela 6. The Seven-Month Itch?: Neoliberal Politics, Popular Movements, and the Left in Mexico 7. The Politics of Identity Reconstruction: Indians and Democracy in Ecuador 8. The Evolution of the Brazilian Environmental Movement and Its Political Roles 9. The Authoritarian Alternative: Anti-Politics Among the Popular Sectors of Lima SECTION III: THE STUBBORNNESS OF VIOLENCE 10. The Quetzal is Red: Military States, Popular Movements, and Political Violence in Guatemala 11. Popular Responses to State-Sponsored Violence in Brazil 12. Political Violence and the Grassroots in Lima, Peru SECTION IV: DILEMMAS OF A SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PROJECT 13. Rethinking Economic Alternatives: Left Parties and the Articulation of Popular Demands in Chile and Peru 14. Market-Orientated Development Strategies and State-Society Relations in New Democracies: Lessons from Contemporary Chile and Spain 15. Putting Conservatism to Good Use?: Long Crisis and Vetoed Alternatives in Uruguay SECTION V: RECONSTRUCTING REPRESENTATION 16. The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship: Lessons from Mexico 17. Reconstructing the Workers Party (PT): Lessons from Northeastern Brazil 18. Can a Leftist Government Make a Difference?: The Frente Amplio Administration of Montevideo, 1990-1994 19. Targeting the Poor: The Politics of Social Policy Reforms in Mexico 20. Redefining the Public/Private Mix: NGOs and the Emergency Social Investment Fund in Ecuador 21. Regional Integration and Transnational Politics: Popular Sector Strategies in the NAFTA Era CONCLUSION 22. Associative Networks: New Structures of Representation for the Popular Sectors? CONTRIBUTORS LIST BIBLIOGRAPHY

Memorial Fragments, Monumental Silences and Reawakenings in 21st-Century Chile

This article analyses the commemoration of political violence and its victims in the aftermath of the Chilean dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973—90). We assess the varied political processes involved in commemoration, and we identify those whose struggles to reclaim sites and spaces associated with past human rights violations represent a new political, and in some cases antipolitical, repertoire. We also examine shifts in official stances and action regarding human rights and political commemoration.

Empathic unsettlement and the outsider within Argentine spaces of memory

In quite distinctive ways, protagonists of Argentine spaces of memory have addressed the complex questions of whether and how visitors experience empathy and empathic unsettlement in these spaces. I will draw from my recent experiences as co-professor with Marita Sturken of a group of US students in Buenos Aires. I will suggest that tension-ridden engagement between outsiders and insiders, including our exchanges with Argentine guides in three iconic sites of memory, can in some instances be conceived as empathic unsettlement. I will make use of performance studies to reflect on our “situatedness” within these spaces, in terms of “co-performance” and the outsider within. I hope to relate our dialogues and experiences to the possibilities for cross-border solidarities.