Petras / Veltmeyer The Class Struggle in Latin America

Making History Today
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-76310-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

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 neoliberal 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 that the class struggle remains intrinsically linked to the march of capitalist development. At a time when post neoliberal 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

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Class Struggle Back on the Agenda
2. Extractivism and the Class Struggle
3. Accumulation by Dispossession and the Resistance
4. The Progressive Cycle in Latin American Politics
5. Brazil: Changing Dynamics of the Land Struggle
6. Paraguay: Class Struggle on the Extractive Frontier
7. Mexico: Shifting Dynamics of a Class War
8. Peru: The Return of the Class Struggle from Below
9. Argentina: The Return of Class Struggle from Above
10. Venezuela: In the Eye of the Storm
11. Chile
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 author and editor of over 40 books on issues of Latin
American and global development, and critical development studies.

James Petras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton
University in New York, and Adjunct professor in International
Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, Canada). He is
the author of over sixty books and numerous other writings on issues of
world and Latin American developments.