Latin America transformed : globalization and modernity

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Latin America transformed : globalization and modernity

edited by Robert N. Gwynne and Cristóbal Kay

Arnold, 1999

  • : hb
  • : pb

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Bibliography: p. [325]-353

Includes index

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Volume

: pb ISBN 9780340691656

Description

There has been a radical series of transformations in the economic, political, social and cultural life of Latin America. This text offers an holistic approach to understanding these changes, relating them to the wider processes of modernization and globalization. An international team of authors from a range of disciplines - cultural studies, economic geography, political science, sociology and social geography - contextualize their different disciplinary foci within a broad political economy approach which provides a critical yet balanced analysis of the neoliberal politics pursued by almost all countries in the region over the last two decades. A new political economy is being constructed in Latin America, as national economies become radically restructured and transformed, democracy becomes the institutional norm, and new social arrangements are being created. The contestation and alternatives to this new global modernity are also explored.

Table of Contents

Part 1 - Introduction to the political economy of Latin America Latin America transformed: changing paradigms, debates and alternatives Part 2 - Political transformation Authoritarianism, democracy and development The new political order: towards technocratic democracies? Part 3 - Globalization and economic transformation Globalization, neoliberalism and economic change in south America and Mexico Globalization, neoliberalism and economic change in central America and the Caribbean Part 4 - Globalization and environmental change Natural resources, the global economy and sustainability The political economy of sustainable development Part 5 - Cultural change and modernity Civil society, social difference and politics: issues of identity and representation Part 6 - The context of social change Population, migration, employment and gender Part 7 - Rural and urban transformation Rural development: from agrarian reform to neoliberalism and beyond Cities, capitalism and neoliberal regimes Bibliography.
Volume

: hb ISBN 9780340731918

Description

This text provides an introduction to contemporary development issues in Latin America. It examines a continent that is becoming more international in its economic relationships and more homogeneous in its political framework - but in which a wide variety of social and cultural patterns can be observed. Rapid economic growth may have brought prosperity to a minority but for most people many of the problems of uneven development and inequality seem to be greater than ever. The text is divided into two parts. The first summarizes the theoretical frameworks that have attempted to contextualize Latin American development: structuralism, dependency, neoliberalism and cultural change. The second introduces key development issues of relevance to Latin America as the 21st century approaches, and relates them to the theoretical frameworks previously discussed. It then concludes by contrasting the rapid change in economic and political variables with slower change in the social and cultural milieux.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Theoretical frameworks: structuralism and dependency theories
  • a critique of the new neoliberal consensus
  • authoritarianism, democracy and development
  • theories of cultural change. Part 2 Development issues: democratic Latin America
  • globalizing Latin America
  • economic growth opportunities in large and small countries
  • rural development
  • environmental challenges
  • race, gender and class - problems of identity and representation
  • population, migration and employment
  • urban development.

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