Demanding the Land: Urban Popular Movements in Peru and Ecuador, 1990-2005

by Paul Dosh

Book Overview

In the latter half of the twentieth century, millions of impoverished people all over Latin America participated in illegal seizures of urban land. As many cities became saturated with squatter settlements by the 1980s, it was expected that such invasions would wane. But the increased economic vulnerability and expansion of informal labor activity brought about by neoliberal government policies spurred yet more invasions. Their goals remained the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271037083
• ISBN13: 9780271037080
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"