| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 395 pages) : illustrations. |
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Critical currents in Latin American perspective |
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Critical currents in Latin American perspective.
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| Summary |
"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 by a number of case studies written by the most astute radical Left observers of the contemporary setting"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 Chavez's Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes -- 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 mirth 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Social movements -- Latin America.
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Social change -- Latin America.
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Social conflict -- Latin America.
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Latin America -- Politics and government.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Comparative.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
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Social conflict. (OCoLC)fst01122378
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Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
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Latin America. (OCoLC)fst01245945
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Sociala rörelser.
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Vänsterrörelser.
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Latinamerika.
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| Added Author |
Webber, Jeffery R., editor.
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Carr, Barry, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: New Latin American left 9780742557574 (DLC) 2012027849 (OCoLC)792886297 |
| ISBN |
9780742557598 (electronic bk.) |
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0742557596 (electronic bk.) |
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