Böcker av Gerardo Otero

This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down. For social movement activists and researchers working in political sociology, sociological theory, political studies, development studies, social movements, and Latin American Studies.

Analyzing international data regarding food production and social inequality, especially in the NAFTA region, this book convincingly argues that neoliberal regimes, not individuals, have created the global obesity epidemic.

A study of the challenges caused by the liberalizing of the Mexican economy at a time when multiple organizations of civil society are demanding a democratic political transition. Each chapter traces recent structural transformations within the central social relationships in Mexican society.