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The Counter‐Movement Through the Lens of Generation: Emancipation, Protection, and Neoliberalization in Costa Rica, 2000–2018
Author(s) -
Rayner Jeremy,
Morales Rivera Valeria
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of latin american and caribbean anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.624
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1935-4940
pISSN - 1935-4932
DOI - 10.1111/jlca.12514
Subject(s) - emancipation , marketization , articulation (sociology) , politics , social movement , neoliberalism (international relations) , movement (music) , sociology , political economy , state (computer science) , ethnography , political science , aesthetics , law , philosophy , china , algorithm , computer science , anthropology
This article employs ethnography and history to consider the role of distinct age cohorts, or generations, in the emergence of powerful movements against neoliberalization in twenty‐first‐century Costa Rica, articulated around the defense of the “social state” and through a decentralized, horizontal organization practice. Utilizing Nancy Fraser's concept of the “triple movement,” we argue that attention to the politics of emancipation and of age cohorts or generations enriches our understanding of movements for social protection by drawing attention to the roles of life cycle and the formation of generations in reactions to marketization; the changing historical definition of what is deemed worth protecting from the market; and the importance of “emancipation,” both as a motive of political participation and as an organizational commitment that facilitates the articulation of intergenerational movements.