CASAS’ member Isabel Güiza-Gómez has published this article in Studies in Comparative International Development with Laura García-Montoya, & Arturo Chang.
Abstract: Under which conditions do social movement coalitions factionalize under parallel, and possibly contending, frames? We argue that social movements split along opposing collective action frames when development paradigm shifts create distinct opportunities or threats for factions within the coalition. Rooted in historical marginalization, these shifts impact factions’ responses unevenly, shaping how they frame their demands to align with evolving policies. Through a multi-method research design combining critical event analysis and postcolonial historiography, we show that previously united Campesino and Indigenous movements diverged into competing class- and ethnic-based frames in Colombia’s 1970 s in response to the rollback of redistributive land reform under Pastrana’s administration. This evolving policy environment intersected with historical forms of marginalization, which conditioned movements’ strategies whereby Indigenous movements embraced ethnic-based land demands while Campesino movements insisted on class-based claims. This article contributes to prior scholarship on class and ethnicity in Latin America by showing that what was previously understood as an awakening of identity politics is better explained by the contingent interplay between movements’ strategies, marginalization, and rapid shifts in development paradigms.
Read the full article: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09456-w
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