The new Latin American left : cracks in the empire /

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Imprint:Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2013]
Description:1 online resource (vi, 395 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Critical currents in Latin American perspective
Critical currents in Latin American perspective.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11310755
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Other authors / contributors:Webber, Jeffery R., editor.
Carr, Barry, editor.
ISBN:9780742557598
0742557596
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9781283629010
6613941468
9786613941466
9780742557574
074255757X
9780742557581
0742557588
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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"--
Other form:Print version: New Latin American left 9780742557574
Table of 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.