Poverty's Numbing Effect on Collective Action: A Case Study of Squatter Settlers in Lima, Peru

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Current scholarship in Latin America discusses at length how the presence of certain factors promotes collective action of the poor in Latin America. However, this article examines how a lack of these factors restrains the participatory capacity of the poor. Older scholarship that explicitly connects poverty and a lack of collective action is integrated with contemporary theoretical concepts to identify a lack of social capital as a limiting factor on the participatory capacity of the poor. A case study of squatter settlers in Lima, Peru illustrates how heightened poverty and exclusion among the poor in the neoliberal age undermine the development of social capital on which collective mobilization is founded. Despite intense grievances with poverty and the resulting exclusion of their children from public education, settlers do not consider collective action as a way of addressing these shared problems.Los estudios actuales en Latinoam??rica tratan en detalle, c?3mo la presencia de ciertos factores promueve la acci?3n colectiva de los pobres en Am??rica Latina. Sin embargo, este art?-culo examina c?3mo una ausencia de estos factores restringe la capacidad participativa de los pobres. Estudios anteriores que conectan expl?-citamente la pobreza a una ausencia de acci?3n colectiva, forman parte de los conceptos te?3ricos contempor??neos que identifican una carencia de capital social, como un factor limitante en la capacidad participativa de los pobres. Un estudio sobre ocupantes sin t?-tulo en Lima, Per?o ilustra c?3mo la pobreza mayor y la exclusi?3n entre los pobres en la era neoliberal, minan el desarrollo del capital social, en el que se instituye la movilizaci?3n colectiva. A pesar de las intensas reivindicaciones con la pobreza, resultando en la exclusi?3n de sus ni?±os de la educaci?3n p?oblica, los colonos no consideran la acci?3n colectiva como una forma de enfrentar esos problemas comunes. . . . . , .View full textDownload full textKeywordscollective action, social capital, poverty, exclusion, squatter settlement, Lima, PeruRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true,"ui_click":true}; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2012.739342