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Title The social life of economic inequalities in contemporary Latin America : decades of change / Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen, editors.

Publication Info. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (XIX, 289 pages) : 1 illustration in color.
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Series Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
Approaches to social inequality and difference.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Reformism, Class Conciliation, and the Pink Tide: Material Gains and their Limits -- 3. Entangled Inequalities, State, and Social Policies in Contemporary Brazil -- 4. #sosfavelas: Digital Representations of Violence and Inequality in Rio de Janeiro -- 5. Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro During the 'Pink Tide': from politics of citizenship to politics of privilege -- 6. Meanings of Poverty: an Ethnography of Bolsa Familia Beneficiaries in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil -- 7. Political Polarization, Colonial Inequalities, and the Crisis of Modernity in Venezuela -- 8. Market Liberalization and the (Un- ) Making of the 'Perfect Neoliberal Citizen': Enactments of Gendered and Racialized Inequalities among Peruvian Vendors -- 9. Coming of Age in the Penal System: Neoliberalism, 'Mano Dura', and the Reproduction of 'Racialised' Inequality in Honduras -- 10. Settlers and Squatters: The Production of Social Inequalities in the Peruvian Desert -- 11. Latin American Inequality and Reparation -- 12. Postscript.
Summary This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to challenge historically constituted configurations of inequality. A central argument in the book is that in spite of economic reforms and social advances on a range of arenas, the fundamental tenants of socio-economic inequalities have not been challenged substantially. As several countries are now experiencing a return to right-wing politics, this collection helps us better understand why inequalities are so entrenched in the Latin American continent, but also the complex and creative ways that it is continuously contested. The book directs itself to students, scholars and anyone interested in Latin America, economic anthropology, political anthropology, left-wing politics, poverty and socio-economic inequalities.
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Subject Equality -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century.
Income distribution -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century.
Latin America -- Social conditions -- 1982-
Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982-
Latin America -- Social policy.
Economics -- Sociological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00902213
Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
Social sciences. (OCoLC)fst01122877
Social structure. (OCoLC)fst01123372
Added Author Ystanes, Margit, editor.
Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter, 1980- editor.
Other Form: Printed edition: 9783319615356 (OCoLC)988287459
Standard No. 10.1007/978-3-319-61536-3 doi
ISBN 9783319615363
331961536X
3319615351
9783319615356
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