Contesting Publics by Lynne Phillips

Contesting Publics by Lynne Phillips

Through ethnographic case studies and activists' narratives, Contesting Publics analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory democracy in Latin America.

Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole analyse how new silences, exclusions and re-inscriptions of inequalities have emerged alongside these new spaces of participation. They re-examine the relationship between public and private and address a larger theoretical question: what is the meaning of 'the public' within democracy projects?

Contesting Publics considers current debates among feminists from different generations on the merits of a variety of strategies, goals and issues, drawing out vital lessons for students, researchers and activists in anthropology, gender studies and Latin American studies.

'This is a thought-provoking volume that promises to appeal to students and scholars, and also to a broader public of activists and intellectuals' -- Florence EBabb, Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Women's Studies, Affiliate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Florida
'Breathes new life into the public/private debate, showing how it remains crucial to thinking about the lives of women' -- Lindsay DuBois, Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University and author of The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood (2005).

Lynne Phillips is Dean of Arts and Professor of Anthropology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is co-author of Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism, Ethnography (Pluto, 2014) and The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America: Cultural Perspectives on Neoliberalism (1998). Sally Cole is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. She is co-author of Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism, Ethnography (Pluto, 2014) and author of Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology (2003).

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ISBN 13	9780745334592
ISBN 10	0745334598
Title	Contesting Publics
Author	Lynne Phillips
Series	Anthropology Culture And Society
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pluto Press
Year published	2014-04-20
Number of pages	192
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