The Class Struggle in Latin America

Making History Today
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-72022-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Routledge Critical Development Studies

The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the lens of class struggle. Focusing in particular on Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, the book identifies how the shifts and changing dynamics of the class struggle have impacted on the rise, demise and resurgence of neo-liberal regimes in Latin America.

This innovative book offers a unique perspective on the evolving dynamics of class struggle, engaging both the destructive forces of capitalist development and those seeking to consolidate the system and preserve the status quo, alongside the efforts of popular resistance concerned with the destructive ravages of capitalism on humankind, society and the global environment.

Using theoretical observations based on empirical and historical case studies, this book argues that the class struggle remains intrinsically linked to the march of capitalist development. At a time when post-neo-liberal regimes in Latin America are faltering, this supplementary text provides a guide to the economic and political dynamics of capitalist development in the region, which will be invaluable to students and researchers of international development, anthropology and sociology, as well as those with an interest in Latin American politics and development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petras, James

Veltmeyer, Henry

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1 Class Struggle Back on the Agenda

Chapter 2 Extractivism and Resistance: A New Era

Chapter 3 Accumulation by Dispossession — and the Resistance

Chapter 4 The Progressive Cycle in Latin American Politics

Chapter 5 Argentina: The Return of the Right

with Mario Hernández

Chapter 6 Brazil: Class Struggle in the Countryside

João Márcio Mendes Pereira and Paulo Alentejano

Chapter 7 Democracy Without the Workers: 25 years of the Labour Movement and Mature Neoliberalism in Chile

Sebastián Osorio and Franck Gaudichaud

Chapter 8 Mexico: Dynamics of a Class War

Chapter 9 Paraguay: Class Struggle on the Extractive Frontier

Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete

Chapter 10 Peru: The Return of the Class Struggle from Below

Jan Lust

Chapter 11 Venezuela: In the Eye of the Storm

Chapter 12 The Return of the Right

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Henry Veltmeyer is Professor of development studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (UAZ), Mexico, and Professor Emeritus of international development studies at Saint Mary’s University (Halifax,Canada). He is the authoror editor of over 40 books on issues of LatinAmerican and global development, and critical development studies.
James Petras is Professor Emeritus of sociology at Binghamton University in New York, and Adjunct Professor in internationaldevelopment studies at Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, Canada). He is the author of over60 books and numerous other writings on issues of world and Latin American developments.