The new Latin American left : cracks in the empire /

"This anthology--bringing together political scientists, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, economists, and journalists--provides a serious and sophisticated theoretical and historical analysis of the state of the Latin American Left. The central thematic issues are addressed, followed...

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Other Authors: Webber, Jeffery R., Carr, Barry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
Series:Critical currents in Latin American perspective.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Latin American left in theory and practice / Jeffery R. Webber and Barry Carr
  • Part I: Theoretical issues. Socialist strategies in Latin America / Claudio Katz ; The Latin American left in the face of the new imperialism / Henry Veltmeyer ; Neoliberal class formation(s) : the informal proletariat and "new" workers' organizations in Latin America / Susan Spronk ; Revolution in times of neoliberal hegemony : the political strategy of the MST in Brazil and the EZLN in Mexico / Leandro Vergara-Camus ; Barrio women and popular politics in Chávez's Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes
  • Part II: Case studies of the new Latin American left. From left-indigenous insurrection to reconstituted neoliberalism in Bolivia : political economy, indigenous liberation, and class struggle, 2000-2011 / Jeffery R. Webber ; Venezuela : an electoral road to twenty-first-century socialism? / Gregory Wilpert ; Ecuador : indigenous struggles and the ambiguities of electoral power / Marc Becker ; Crisis and recomposition in Argentina / Emilia Castorina ; Trade unions, social conflict, and the political left in present-day Brazil : between breach and compromise / Ricardo Antunes ; Neoliberal authoritarianism, the "democratic transition," and the Mexican left / Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui ; The Chilean left after 1990 : an izquierda permitida championing transnational capital, a historical left ensnared in the past, and a new radical left in gestation / Fernando Leiva ; From guerrillas to government : the continued relevance of the Central American left / Hector Perla Jr., Marco Mojica, and Jared Bibler ; The overthrow of a moderate and the birth of a radicalizing resistance : the coup against Manuel Zelaya and the history of imperialism and popular struggle in Honduras / Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber.