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Crisis and contradiction : Marxist perspectives on Latin America in the global political economy / edited by Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; Volume 79.
- Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 79
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Political aspects--Latin America.
- Economic development.
- Marxian economics--Latin America.
- Marxian economics.
- Latin America--Economic conditions.
- Latin America.
- Latin America--Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (399 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since the late-1990's much of Latin America has experienced an uneven and contradictory turn to the Left in the electoral arena. At the same time, there has been a rejuvenation of Marxist critiques of political economy. Drawing on the expertise of Latin American, North American, and European scholars, this volume offers cutting-edge theoretical explorations of trends in the region, as well as in-depth case studies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela. Essays in the volume focus on changes to class formation in Latin America and offer new insights into the state-form, exploring the complex relationship between state and market in contexts of late capitalist development, particularly in countries endowed with incredible natural resource wealth. Contributors are: Dario Azzellini, Emilia Castorina, Mariano Féliz, Juan Grigera, Nicolas Grinberg, Gabriel Hetland, Claudio Katz, Thomas Purcell, Ben Selwyn, Susan J. Spronk, Guido Starosta, Leandro Vergara-Camus, and Jeffery R. Webber.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Introduction – Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity: Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political Economy / Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber
- 2 Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatisation in Bolivia: The ‘New Working Class’, the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services / Susan Spronk
- 3 The Neo-Developmentalist Alternative: Capitalist Crisis, Popular Movements, and Economic Development in Argentina since the 1990's / Mariano Féliz
- 4 The Reproduction of Democratic Neoliberalism in Argentina: Kirchner’s ‘Solution’ to the Crisis of 2001 / Emilia Castorina
- 5 Doubly Marginalised? Women Workers in Northeast Brazilian Export Horticulture / Ben Selwyn
- 6 Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Rôle of the Party / Gabriel Hetland
- 7 Venezuela’s Social Transformation and Growing Class Struggle / Dario Azzellini
- 8 Socialist Management and Natural Resource Based Industrial Production: A Critique of Cogestión in Venezuela / Thomas F. Purcell
- 9 Conspicuous Silences: State and Class in Structuralist and Neostructuralist Thought / Juan Grigera
- 10 Sugarcane Ethanol: The Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agribusiness and the State in Lula’s Brazil / Leandro Vergara-Camus
- 11 From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina / Nicolas Grinberg and Guido Starosta
- 12 The Three Dimensions of the Crisis / Claudio Katz
- 13 Revolution against ‘Progress’: Neo-Extractivism, the Compensatory State, and the tipnis Conflict in Bolivia / Jeffery R. Webber
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-27107-4
- OCLC:
- 889181110
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