Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780367550011 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 220 str.

Henry Veltmeyer; Edgar Zayago Lau

Opis

This book critically explores the development and resistance dynamics generated by conflicting forces of social change in Latin America. This collection offers an essential analysis of the vortex of social change currently consuming Latin America and is key reading for advanced scholars and researchers in the field.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. In the vortex of social change, Henry Veltmeyer  Part 1: Development in the neoliberal era  2. Extractive capitalism: development and resistance dynamics, James Petras  3. Capitalism on the Frontier of agroextractivism, Raúl Delgado Wise  4. Social movements and the state in the post-neoliberal era, Gerardo Otero, Efe Can Gürcan, Horacio Mackinlay  5. The syncopated dance of Mexico’s industrial policy, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Joaquín Sánchez Gómez, Stefanie Garry  6. Communes in Venezuela in Times of Crisis, Dario Azzellini  Part 2: Antinomies of development: constructing an alternative reality  7. Neoextractivism and development, Maristella Svampa  8. Paradoxes of development in the Andes and Amazonia, Fernanda Wanderley, Horacio Vera Cossio, Jean Paul Benavides  9. Ucronia for Living Well, René Ramírez Gallegos  10. Disputes over capitalism and varieties of development, Eduardo Gudynas