The New Latin American Left

Cracks in the Empire
Herausgeber: Carr, Barry; Webber, Jeffery R.

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Produktbeschreibung

This provocative, multidisciplinary work explores the dramatic resurgence of the Left in Latin America since the late 1990s. Offering a comprehensive account of the complexities and nuances of the shifting political tides in the region, the book provides both a theoretical framework for assessing the state of the Left and a set of country case studies highlighting key movements, successes, and failures. Working from a range of critical perspectives, the contributors consider the Left's hopes, aims, and prospects, as well as its contradictions and fissures. As the first book to systematically consider the contemporary relevance of the Left, it will be central to any understanding of Latin American politics and society today.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 801g
• ISBN-13: 9780742557574
• ISBN-10: 074255757X
• Artikelnr.: 35563168

Autorenporträt

Jeffery R. Webber is lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London. Barry Carr is professor, Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, and visiting professor of Latin American history, University of California, Berkeley.l

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Latin American Left in Theory and Practice
Jeffery R. Webber and Barry Carr Part I: Theoretical Issues Chapter 2:
Socialist Strategies in Latin America Claudio Katz Chapter 3: The Latin
American Left in the Face of the New Imperialism Henry Veltmeyer Chapter 4:
Neoliberal Class Formation(s): The Informal Proletariat and "New" Workers'
Organizations in Latin America Susan Spronk Chapter 5: Revolution in Times
of Neoliberal Hegemony: The Political Strategy of the MST in Brazil and the
EZLN in Mexico Leandro Vergara-Camus Chapter 6: Barrio Women and Popular
Politics in Chávez's Venezuela Sujatha Fernandes Part II: Case Studies of
the New Latin American Left Chapter 7: From Left-Indigenous Insurrection to
Reconstituted Neoliberalism in Bolivia: Political Economy, Indigenous
Liberation, and Class Struggle, 2000-2011 Jeffery R. Webber Chapter 8:
Venezuela: An Electoral Road to Twenty-First-Century Socialism? Gregory
Wilpert Chapter 9: Ecuador: Indigenous Struggles and the Ambiguities of
Electoral Power Marc Becker Chapter 10: Crisis and Recomposition in
Argentina Emilia Castorina Chapter 11: Trade Unions, Social Conflict, and
the Political Left in Present-Day Brazil: Between Breach and Compromise
Ricardo Antunes Chapter 12: Neoliberal Authoritarianism, the "Democratic
Transition," and the Mexican Left Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui
Chapter 13: 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 Chapter 14: From Guerrillas to
Government: The Continued Relevance of the Central American Left Héctor
Perla Jr., Marco Mojica, and Jared Bibler Chapter 15: 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