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Title Beyond neoliberalism in Latin America? : societies and politics at the crossroads / edited by John Burdick, Philip Oxhorn, and Kenneth M. Roberts
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies of the Americas
Studies of the Americas.
Contents Preface -- Beyond neoliberalism: popular responses to social change in Latin America -- The Chilean left: socialist and neoliberal -- Neoliberalism and the left: national challenges, local responses, and global alternatives -- Decades lost and won: indigenous movements and multicultural neoliberalism in the Andes -- The Cristo del Gran Poder and the T"inku: getting at the roots of indigenous movements in Bolivia -- Ethnoracial identity in a neoliberal age: government recognition of difference in Northeast Brazil -- Digging out from neoliberalism: responses to environmental (mis)governance of the mining sector in Latin America -- Assessing the limits of neoliberal environmental governance in Bolivia -- Nature in neoliberalism and beyond: community-based resource management, environmental conservation, and farmer-and-food movements of Bolivia 1985-present -- Neoliberal reform and migrant remittances: symptom or solution? -- Nothing (entirely) new under the sun: developmentalism and neoliberalism in Nicaragua -- Beyond neoliberalism? Latin America's new crossroads
Summary While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. What are the alternatives they imagine? Do these alternatives represent a genuine break? Twelve cutting-edge papers investigate how Latin Americans are struggling to articulate a future in which neoliberalism is reconfigured
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Neoliberalism -- Latin America
Political science & theory.
Social & cultural anthropology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
Politics and Government.
Economic history
Neoliberalism
Politics and government
Social conditions
Society.
SUBJECT Latin America -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Latin America -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Burdick, John.
Oxhorn, Philip.
Roberts, Kenneth M., 1958-
ISBN 9780230618428
0230618421
9781349376803
1349376809
9786612330773
6612330775